How do we use the Bible to reason with unbelievers when, on the one hand, they don’t recognize it as a valid source, while, on the other hand, it actually is the source, whether they recognize it or not?
Before they fly the nest, what are you hoping to teach your kids? How to cook? How to clean? How to be good with money? Hannah Ploegstra shares her own list, but the things on it aren’t what you’d expect.
Hannah Ploegstra always thought she knew what the gospel was about. But it wasn’t until she was sitting in a doctor’s office, facing bad news, that she realized what the gospel is truly for.
It can be hard to know what to say at a funeral. “Sorry for your loss” or “My condolences” are well-meaning options, but are also ultimately vaporous. As Hannah Ploegstra argues, our inability to offer more reveals that we haven’t really understood the gospel in the first place.
Most of us would prefer not to think about what happens to the dead when they are in the grave. Hannah Ploegstra argues why this is necessary for truly grasping what Christ has done for us.
Hannah Ploegstra explores the hope and good news signified by funerals.
Hannah Ploegstra gives preachers eight reasons why drawing attention to the length of their sermon works against them.
When we talk about headship we tend to fixate on questions like “Who’s in charge around here?” and “How does God want me to lead the ones I’m in charge of?”
It’s too bad Genesis 1-2 has become a battleground for the creation/evolution debate. Christians use this section of Scripture as ammunition against unbelievers who claim the world was not created or that there is no God. We’ve turned it into a textbook, teasing out words and phrases that provide a ‘biblical science’ for our side of the debate.
People tell me they’re “taking every thought captive” (2 Cor 10:5). I think they mean they’re trying to ignore the plaguing thoughts that arise out of emotional or spiritual sin and weakness. Thoughts born of worry, lust, despair, fear, and doubt. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.