Catie Robertson

Aug 31, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Brett McCracken |Russ Ramsey |Catie Robertson

Three weeks after an inferno raged through the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, authorities are still working to identify dead bodies. They’re still looking for more than 380 missing people. Search teams are still hunting for human remains in collapsed buildings and in the water. And while largely contained, the fire that burned more than 2,000 acres is still burning. “There is so much that is unknown,” pastor Rocky Komatsu said. “We don’t even know all the challenges right now.

Aug 30, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Paul Worcester |Brett McCracken |Catie Robertson |Miranda Carls

Most college campuses are filled with thousands of young lost people, broken and searching for direction with only a few underresourced ministries seeking to reach them. From personal experience and observation, the average campus in the U.S. is less than 5 percent Christian (in terms of true gospel believers), and many are less than 2 percent—missiologists would qualify them as unreached. The harvest truly is plentiful, and the laborers are few (Matt. 9:37).

Aug 30, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Hunter Baker |Brett McCracken |Catie Robertson |Miranda Carls

I met a fellow professor at a conference recently. For various reasons, she’d been through a period of thinking about leaving the Catholic Church. She then told me her mother had said something that arrested her process: “Italian Catholic is one word.” It had made such an impression that the woman repeated it to me again. “Italian Catholic is one word.”Russell Moore has come to a different conclusion about the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), but not without great difficulty.

Aug 29, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Russ Ramsey |Brett McCracken |Catie Robertson |Thomas West

Want the gates of hell to tremble? Here’s an idea: serve in your church’s children’s ministry. “Let brotherly love continue,” the author of Hebrews writes. “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Heb. 13:1–2). Children’s ministry is, at its core, a ministry of hospitality.

Aug 29, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | G. Shane Morris |Brett McCracken |Catie Robertson |Thomas West

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