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April 2023

April 25, 2023
According to the Bible, Jesus' resurrection proved he was the king. We need to recover...
April 11, 2023
Paul's use of "breadth, length, height, and depth" in Ephesians 3:18 likely refers to a...

March 2023

March 28, 2023
I'm a complementarian who set out to understand the other side. Here's why the egalitarian...
March 07, 2023
I'm a complementarian who decided to listen to the other side. Here's four egalitarian arguments...

February 2023

February 21, 2023
Both sides of the male headship debate regularly attack the motives and character of their...
February 14, 2023
Debates between conservative and progressive Christians often get heated. The reason is a pattern of...

January 2023

January 24, 2023
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible explores the idea that all of creation is God's...
January 17, 2023
Does 1 Corinthians 6:18 teach that only sexual immorality is a sin "against the body"?...
January 10, 2023
To fully understand Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, we must see...
January 03, 2023
We can't understand "sexual purity" in scripture without understanding the biblical ideas of clean, unclean,...

December 2022

December 27, 2022
Jesus "revealed his glory" by turning water to wine at Cana. But he also revealed...
December 20, 2022
The book of Ruth wants us to see God's love reflected in the kindness of...
December 13, 2022
The threshing floor scene in Ruth is strange to modern readers. But the author gives...
December 06, 2022
The Bible opposes sex outside of marriage because it doesn't reflect God's redemptive, unconditional, covenant...

November 2022

November 29, 2022
At Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus as the "Son of God." That means...
November 21, 2022
A biblical vision of romance sees sex as an opportunity to display the redemptive love...
November 15, 2022
Purity culture promised marriage, family, and great sex to those who practiced abstinence. And then...
November 10, 2022
Will "sexual compatibility" lead to long-term relational bliss? Or does it offer false hope that...
November 07, 2022
The Bible often uses the idea of adoption to describe God's love. Adoption is therefore...
November 01, 2022
Secular culture used to say premarital sex was fun. Now, culture says it's a wise...

October 2022

October 26, 2022
It's no secret that Christians believe Jesus is God. But have you ever wondered why?...
October 25, 2022
It's been 10 years since John Piper said that God has given Christianity a "masculine...
October 18, 2022
In the early 2000s, a sexual abuse scandal rattled a tiny island community in the...
October 11, 2022
Purity culture addressed sexual sin in terms of shame. Overcoming it requires a gospel that's...
October 04, 2022
We often use modest to mean "not sexually provocative." But in scripture, modesty means humility....

September 2022

September 27, 2022
Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well is often assumed to be purely...
September 20, 2022
Dying and rising with Jesus is one of the main ways that the New Testament...
September 13, 2022
Jesus was "raised for our justification," according to Romans 4. To understand what Paul means...
September 06, 2022
There’s a resurrection-shaped hole at the heart of evangelical theology. No evangelical Christian would ever...

August 2022

August 30, 2022
What if we take virginity more seriously than scripture? It's obvious that the Bible recognizes...
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