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Dec 8, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Paige Pippin
As the holidays come upon us, we can pray in anticipation of an overwhelming amount of social time. When we discern what commitments to make, we can pray specifically about our hearts and opportunities beforehand. When it feels intimidating to show up at a gathering where we have little in common with attendees, we ask the Lord to help us engage, ask good questions, and be good listeners. It’s amazing how loved people feel when we give them our attention.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Jamaal Williams |Timothy Jones |Luke Simmons |Paige Pippin
While the sequel to Luke’s Gospel is typically titled “the Acts of the Apostles,” it’s often said the book could just as easily be named “the Acts of the Holy Spirit.” Luke mentions the Spirit more than 50 times in this book. From beginning to end, he stresses the Spirit’s power behind God’s mission (Acts 1:8; 13:9; 15:8, 28; 16:6, 7; 20:28; 28:25). The Spirit empowered the apostles to cast out demons, heal the sick, and supernaturally escape imprisonment.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Spencer |Cap Stewart |Luke Simmons |Paige Pippin
When I was a student athlete, I’d sometimes respond to jibes from other teams with a cheer: “Heck no, we don’t glow.” That’s the result of living near the only commercially operated nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the United States. In the early 90s, an attempt to use the site for low-level radioactive material storage failed on a community vote. I was pleased.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brandon Cooper |Cap Stewart |Luke Simmons |Paige Pippin
Over the past few years, you’ve invested heavily in your unbelieving neighbor’s life. While she’s eager to hang out with you, she’s deeply resistant to Christianity. You invited her to your church’s Christmas Eve service, but she refused. You invited her on Easter. Again, nope. You invited her to bring her children to your Backyard Kids’ Club, but she saw that as brainwashing camp. So when after facing a crisis, she agreed to join you in church this week, you just about fell out of your chair.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller |Cap Stewart |Paige Pippin |Tim Shorey
It took Twitter two years to reach 1 million users. Spotify? 5 months. Instagram? 2.5 months. ChatGPT? Five days. Advertise on TGCIn the span of five days, AI broke into the conscious awareness of everyday people. For the first time, people played ChatGPT’s linguistic slot machine: tough questions in, surprisingly good answers out. White-collar workers experienced exactly what blue-collar workers did decades earlier: Here’s a machine that can do what I can do at a fraction of the cost.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Joe Carter |Cap Stewart |Paige Pippin |Tim Shorey
What just happened? At the recent Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson asked former vice president Mike Pence if, during his recent meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, he raised the issue of “persecuted Christians in Ukraine.”Carlson said the Ukrainian government had “raided convents” and has “effectively banned” a Christian denomination: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Philip Graham Ryken |Cap Stewart |Paige Pippin |Joe Carter
The Bible describes the exodus in careful detail. Nevertheless, it has often been challenged on historical grounds. One standard objection concerning information given in Exodus 12 is the size of the exodus. It deserves a response. The text says, “The people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds” (vv. 37–38).
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Luke Simmons |Cap Stewart |Paige Pippin |Joe Carter
Wait a second. . . . Those big, beautiful warriors are elves? I was so confused watching The Lord of the Rings for the first time. I hadn’t read the books (gasp!) and was finding out the magical creatures of Rivendell were unlike any elves I’d ever heard of. In my understanding, elves were small—they lived in trees baking cookies or at the North Pole assembling toys. They scurried around more like ants than archers. Advertise on TGCBut J. R. R.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Bob Thune |Cap Stewart |Gillis J. Harp |Paige Pippin
For our cities and communities to flourish, Christians need to be builders. But I never expected to build a school. Here’s the story of how it happened. When our oldest son turned 5, my wife and I toured the neighborhood school. We weren’t thrilled about the educational objectives they outlined. So we decided to homeschool for his first year. Advertise on TGCAs we explored our options, we were introduced to the classical model of education through authors like Susan Wise Bauer and Dorothy Sayers.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Paige Pippin |Justin Poythress |Zach Carter |Miranda Carls
Whether you’re new to your church or have been there for years, getting to know brothers and sisters in Christ can be challenging. Perhaps it’s the hustle and bustle of Sunday, your inability to attend a small group or Bible study, or perceived incompatibility—whatever the reason, making friends at church often takes work. But if we dig in, commit to prayer, and make ourselves available to others, we’ll find these hard-fought friendships to be some of the richest. So where do we start?
