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Jan 7, 2025 | 
crossway.org | Betsy Howard |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. Do the Right ThingWhat if my friends tell me to do something that is wrong? I heard someone say it’s never the wrong time to do the right thing. The fact that people you like, who you want to like you, are encouraging you to do something wrong doesn’t make it right to—just this once—do the wrong thing.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Kristen Wetherell |Thomas Schreiner |Courtney Doctor |Kristen Wetherelll
Peace with God“She is different.” A deep-seated peace will do this. It makes a person stand out from this anxious world. It makes her able to take a nap in the middle of a raging storm, to handle conflict with confidence, and to look death in the face. Christian peace simply does not make sense—unless it comes from another world. Peace describes the heart that knows it is safe in God.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Sarah Walton |Ginger Blomberg |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. True RepentanceWhat if I sin too much? Will God still forgive me? These kinds of questions are questions that kids ask all the time, and if they don’t verbally ask it, they're often thinking it as we’re working through discipline and teaching them right and wrong.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Kristen Wetherell
We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus (Gal. 1:1–5). That is all! However, this does not mean we do nothing (Gal. 5:16). As with a tree’s active photosynthesis, we are called to “keep in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25), which proves that our faith in Jesus is genuine (John 15:8). But we must be careful; it is always possible to slip into legalism, thinking we can somehow earn God’s favor. However, just as we received “the promised Spirit through faith” at the moment we believed (Gal.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Andrew Walker |Christian Walker |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. God Established Creation OrderParents, sometimes we get really hard questions like, “Can I choose to be a boy or girl?” or “Can a boy be trapped in a girl’s body?” We think God has a lot to say in his word about this. When we are approached with questions like that, the first thing we want to do is go to Genesis 1. When we look at Genesis 1, we see this notion of creation order.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Kristen Wetherell |Megan Hill |Melissa Kruger
Fruit Pie or Fruitful Tree? Many of us love a good homemade pie. Whether apple, berry, or peach, a homemade pie is the result of a specific process in the kitchen. The baker arranges and prepares her ingredients, presses out the dough, creates a suitable filling, and adds a lattice crust, and—voilà!—the finished product is a delight to the eyes and the taste buds. The fruit of the Spirit is not like a homemade pie. But how many of us think of things in this way?
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Christina Fox |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. Who Am I? A question that a child might ask—maybe not directly but even indirectly and is certainly one that they are thinking about in their life—is, What is it that makes me, me? I know it’s a question that I’ve asked myself. I think it’s one that we all ask and that we all struggle with throughout our lives. Who am I, really? What is it that identifies me?
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Kristen Wetherell |Lydia Brownback
Prioritize JesusQuiet time is this idea that we are spending time alone with God in perfect quiet. We’re alone, so we are in solitude and there are no interruptions. We have a stack of study resources at our disposal. We’re probably going to spend an hour or two pouring over our Bibles and in prayer. There’s definitely some soft worship music going on in the background, and there’s perhaps a hot cup of coffee in an inspirational mug.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
christianity.com | Kristen Wetherell
Leaders in the church aren’t exempt from sin. No one is. We don’t expect perfect people to lead our congregations, create our resources, and speak into our culture. But we do expect them to uphold the Bible’s authority. We do want them to remain faithful to Christ. So what are we to do when a respected Christian leader fails the church, in any context? How are we to respond? Rejoice in God’s Unchanging Nature God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
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May 1, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Kristen Wetherell |Rebecca McLaughlin |Joe Carter |Justin Taylor
You know the scenario. The alarm goes off. You trudge down the stairs in the early morning, resolved to start your day in Scripture. You go to pour a cup of coffee and think, Did I add coffee beans to the grocery list? So you locate your phone and pull up the list . . . Advertise on TGCMany of us have good intentions when it comes to reading our Bibles. But before we know it, the screens have sabotaged our focus, the needs of family or work take over, and we’ve hit the ground sprinting.
