-
1 month ago | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Justin Taylor
We are pleased to publish this obituary of Gordon Wenham, written by his daughter, Lizzy Nesbitt on behalf of all four of his children. Old Testament scholar Gordon Wenham, best known for his commentaries on the Pentateuch and the Psalms, died in Cheltenham, England, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at the age of 81. Early DaysGordon John Wenham was born in Cambridge, England, in May of 1943, the oldest of four sons to John and Grace Wenham.
-
2 months ago | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Justin Taylor
In our book The Final Days of Jesus Andreas Köstenberger and I try to provide some help in understanding the identity and role of Jesus’s female disciples, especially with respect to their discovery of the empty tomb and their eyewitnesses testimony to the risen Christ. There are a number of things about the narrative of the women that can perplexing when we seek to harmonize their actions across the four accounts.
-
Jan 8, 2025 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Trevin Wax |Kevin DeYoung |Justin Taylor |Melissa Kruger
Paul Kingsnorth’s 2024 Erasmus Lecture, “Against Christian Civilization,” is the best kind of audacious.
-
Aug 24, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Scotty Smith |Justin Taylor |Thomas S. Kidd |Erik Raymond
More By Scotty When Jesus Wants Us to Be Freer Than We Are“Bitterness and Resentment and Vengeance, Oh My!”We Are All Being Discipled … No ExceptionsDear Friends … Ask, Imagine, and TrustFrom Age to Age the Same—Jesus Has, Is, Will Win“The LORD your God is among you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will greatly delight in you. He will quiet you with his love.
-
Aug 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Scotty Smith |Erik Raymond |Justin Taylor |Trevin Wax
More By Scotty “Bitterness and Resentment and Vengeance, Oh My!”We Are All Being Discipled … No ExceptionsDear Friends … Ask, Imagine, and TrustFrom Age to Age the Same—Jesus Has, Is, Will WinBlessed Are the Refreshed, Needed Are RefreshersWhoever Jesus sets free is really free (Jn.8:36). It is for freedom that Jesus set us free, so stand fast in your freedom and don’t let anything or anyone take that freedom from you and put you back into bondage (Paraphrase of Gal.5:1).
-
Aug 21, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Scotty Smith |Justin Taylor |Trevin Wax |Thomas S. Kidd
More By Scotty Dear Friends … Ask, Imagine, and TrustFrom Age to Age the Same—Jesus Has, Is, Will WinBlessed Are the Refreshed, Needed Are RefreshersA Quartet for Now and the Ages“Letting Go for Dear Life”“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom.12:2). “Capture every thought for obedience to Christ” (2 Cor.10:5). “Those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit” (Rom.8:5).
-
Aug 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Trevin Wax |Ray Ortlund |Justin Taylor |Erik Raymond
The apostle Paul: more letters in the New Testament come from his hand than from anyone else. He’s the leader whose dramatic conversion God used to rock the early church and whose tireless efforts helped spread the gospel to the Gentiles. Historian and author Tom Holland describes Paul’s letters as “a collection of acorns, from which mighty oaks have grown.
-
Aug 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Bradley Bell |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Jay Kim |Justin Taylor
When I was in third grade, my mother enrolled me in Children’s Bible Drill. It was certainly a well-titled activity. After hours of memorizing Bible passages, the class “drilled” together, competing to find and recite passages the quickest—at military attention, no less. I can’t say I enjoyed those drills. But what I’ve enjoyed over the past 30 years is being able to share the gospel using all the Scripture coded into my memory.
-
Aug 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Spencer |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Jay Kim |Justin Taylor
Parenting can feel like an endless attempt to hang on for dear life as the weeks go by. Children change; the culture changes; the demands of work, extended family, and church ebb and flow. Kids don’t come with instruction books, and there are as many opinions about child rearing as there are people in this world. How can we do this parenting thing well? You’ll often read in quality Christian parenting books that sanctification is at the heart of parenting well.
-
Aug 14, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Erik Raymond |Kevin DeYoung |Justin Taylor |Melissa Kruger
If you’re like most people, you are either just coming out of a trial, heading into one, or presently in the thick of it. While it’s natural to want to escape these unfavorable circumstances, the maturing Christian has learned that these hard seasons can yield surprising fruit (Psalm 119:67–41). Instead of asking God to simply change our circumstances, we pray that God would change us (Psalm 119:25).
