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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Blake Glosson
My friends Ben and Paige have a 3-year-old named Ruth who loves playing hide-and-seek. Ruth hiding from her dad is one of the sweetest things I’ve seen. For a moment, she tries (usually unsuccessfully) to conceal herself. But after a few seconds of solitude, Ruth gets restless, and it becomes clear that all she wants is to be seen by her dad. She wants to be found.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
crosswalk.com | Blake Glosson
People are starving for the greatness of God. This is the opening line of the preface to John Piper’s excellent work, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, first published in 1990. Over thirty years later—in a vastly different and rapidly changing world—this widespread, soul-gnawing hunger remains. And the universal need for faithful preaching remains.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Blake Glosson
For the past three years—with deep and often painful longings—I’ve pleaded with God to grant one particular request. My request seems consistent with God’s revealed will. I’ve fasted, practiced solitude, repented regularly, recruited prayer warriors, and approached God with genuine faith, humility (as far as I can tell), and no shortage of tears.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Blake Glosson |Tim Keller |Edmund P. Clowney |Gaye Clark
Not many habits communicate love more powerfully than listening. David Augsburger observes, “Being heard is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.”True listening isn’t just hearing words but selflessly seeking understanding. It’s the quietest way to shout, “I love you.”Advertise on TGCGood listeners are a heavenly respite in a world full of chronically under-encouraged and under-heard people.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Blake Glosson
It’d be silly and dangerous to give up on healthy eating if you didn’t feel happier or stronger as or right after you ate. The same is true of Scripture reading. We shouldn’t measure success entirely by whether or not we feel pleasure as we read. Not every Scripture passage should cause even the healthiest Christian to feel surface-level happiness. Don’t chase after a feeling; chase after nearness to Christ.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen |Samuel James |Blake Glosson |Steve Bateman
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin HansenWhen I teach on cultural apologetics, I open each class session with a segment I call making the modern mind. We discuss a technological artifact from throughout history and how it changed culture including religious life. Artifacts include Movable Type, the cotton, gin and electricity.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Joe Carter |Blake Glosson |Steve Bateman |Garrett Kell
What just happened? Baptist Press, the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), recently ran an article highlighting the abuse allegations against Paul Pressler, a seminal figure in the SBC. For example, the church where he served as a deacon, Houston’s First Baptist Church, “rebuked Pressler in 2004 for being nude at his home with a young man from the congregation.” That same year, Pressler settled a lawsuit by Duane Rollins, who had accused him of sexual assault.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ivan Mesa |N. Gray Sutanto |Blake Glosson |Steve Bateman
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked N. Gray Sutanto—assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and author, editor, or translator of various books including Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction—about what’s on his bedside table, favorite fiction, favorite neo-Calvinism books, and much more. Advertise on TGCWhat’s on your nightstand right now?
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Justin Dillehay |Blake Glosson |Steve Bateman |Justin Taylor
What should Christians do with the Old Testament law? Is it still binding on us? If so, which parts? And how do we know? In the Reformed Protestant tradition, Christians have sought to answer this question by distinguishing between three types of law: moral, ceremonial, and judicial.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Garrett Kell |Blake Glosson |Joe Carter |David Kaywood
George Mueller is one of the saints from church history who has most inspired me to trust God. He’s famous for his work with orphans and his dependence on the Lord in prayer. His autobiography is filled with hundreds of pages of prayers and the record of God’s faithful answers (he reports over 50,000 answers to prayer). He has been the subject of many biographies, and for good reason. Mueller’s life of faith was characterized by a deep trust in the goodness and sovereignty of his God.
