Ivan Mesa
Editorial Director at The Gospel Coalition
Editorial director for @TGC. Husband to Sarah. Father of four.
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2 weeks ago |
crossway.org | Joe Carter |Brett McCracken |Ivan Mesa |Samuel James
Inundated with MessagesAs Christians, we often think of sermons as something exclusive to Sunday morning church services. We view sermons as a special type of expository exhortation, in which a pastor, standing in a pulpit and with a Bible open, delivers a spiritual instruction to a congregation. But this limited view prevents us from recognizing the countless other types of “secular sermons” that are being preached to us daily through our screens, advertisements, and entertainment.
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1 month ago |
crossway.org | Brett McCracken |Ivan Mesa |Nathan Finn |Samuel James
Spiritual DementiaDementia has cast a cruel shadow over my family for many years. Both my mother and my wife’s mother battled dementia for more than a decade. Mom died in September 2018. We lost my mother-in-law fifteen months later, in December 2019. Both women were diagnosed with forms of dementia when they were in their fifties. Both were younger than most dementia patients. Both suffered for years.
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1 month ago |
crossway.org | Brett McCracken |Ivan Mesa
This article is part of the The Crossway Podcast series. It's Not Whether You're Addicted but What You Can Do About ItIn this podcast, Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa discuss the changing world of technology, how it competes for our attention, and how Christians should engage with something that has proven to be so addictive.
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1 month ago |
crossway.org | Brett McCracken |Ivan Mesa |Samuel James |Tony Reinke
Healthy Spiritual FormationI’m a parent of three young children (ages 6, 4, and 3) who are growing up in an age of ubiquitous screens. Like most parents in today’s world, I worry about how they’re being shaped by today’s technologies. Here are a few suggestions for practical ways Christian parents can encourage healthy spiritual formation in a scrolling age. 1. Mind what you’re modeling. So much of how kids learn is caught, not taught.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
thegospelcoalition.org | Ivan Mesa
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. What’s on your nightstand right now? My nightstand lately has been keeping me up on trends in the evangelical world:Jordan Peterson’s We Who Wrestle with God. I have been a long-time fan of Jordan Peterson and learned a great deal from his previous two books on rules for living.
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If you’re a pastor or church leader, we’d love to invite you to a Zoom conversation next week (Tuesday, April 15 at 2 p.m. ET) as we reflect on the spiritual and ministry implications of our always-online, constantly-scrolling culture. Sign up: https://t.co/GDRe3phJGy https://t.co/y8o1C5YNhl
Neil Postman has been a conversation partner in my life for over two decades. This is our humble attempt to engage his ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ 40 years later. (They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one might be the exception.) https://t.co/kXWevYKP56 https://t.co/0XMJd31ZkF
The breadth of what we do at @TGC is breathtaking at times—like, you know, casually producing an album themed on the gospel as we get ready to celebrate our 20th anniversary. These songs will minister to your soul as they have mine. https://t.co/guktTLsBrf