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May 30, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Richard Osborne III |Tim Keller |Edmund P. Clowney |Mikey Lynch
As the number of children identifying as transgender has increased enormously, the gender debate has taken center stage in the American culture war. How did we get here? For years, the answer has evaded many—but not for lack of trying. In the quest to understand the transgender boom, many wide-ranging theories have surfaced, focusing on social progress, coping mechanisms in adolescent development, social media, and even the massive profits for healthcare providers.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Glenna Marshall |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
When my husband and I moved out of state for his new senior pastor role at a small rural church, our sending pastor prayed for our future suffering in ministry. At the time, I couldn’t understand why he’d pray about such a thing. What kind of suffering was he anticipating for us? Wasn’t church the safest place for a pastor and his wife? That was nearly 20 years ago, and if I could go back to my younger self, I’d tell her that little would bring her more sorrow than the local church.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Christine Gordon |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
After learning of the many babies born every month in our county who need homes, my husband and I decided to pursue adoption through the foster care system. We educated ourselves about custody, fostering, visitation, adoption law, subsidies, and which babies are the hardest to place. We finished a home study, background checks, and a large tree’s worth of paperwork. Then, much sooner than expected, we got a call.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brett McCracken |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
Music has been a rich part of my devotional life. I can incorporate it as background ambience (or as the focal point) in my dedicated devotional times but also as a soundtrack to everyday life—theological truth sinking into my soul while I drive, do the dishes, fold laundry, or make a meal. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of quality Christian music like this today.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Dan Doriani |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
My wife and I agree we should watch good movies and avoid bad ones. But our agreement about movie watching nearly always ends at that point. Heady sci-fi, anyone? No, she says. Perhaps a holiday rom-com? No from me. But don’t worry about us. We’ll find something eventually, because love finds a way. Unfortunately, it’s harder to find a way when church folks differ, especially if we don’t have the kind of deep, warm relationships that form a foundation for peace.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Kathryn Butler |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
Before Thanksgiving, the high school writers’ workshop I teach concluded the semester with “cookies and Q&A.” Students put aside their writing assignments, and instead of unpacking excerpts from the Puritans, we munched snickerdoodles and talked about the more granular details of the writerly life. A talented group of writers, the students had prepared long lists of questions about world-building and outlining, character development, theme, and the enigmatic mechanics of publishing.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Wilson |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
More Episodes God’s Judgment and Hope in the Wilderness God’s Covenant Confirmed in the Wilderness God’s Instruction in the Wilderness God’s Provision in the Wilderness God’s Rescue Through the WildernessIn his keynote message at TGC’s 2023 National Conference, Andrew Wilson teaches on Exodus 32. He delves into the story of the golden calf, drawing parallels to the fall of humanity in the garden of Eden.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Coleman Ford |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
Many Christians think of apologetics as the elite playground for a few select Christian philosophers—and we haven’t been picked for the team. We may appreciate those who do it, and occasionally pass along their YouTube clips, but we think we’ll never be effective at defending the faith. We feel inadequate, uninformed, or ill-equipped for the task of apologetics. Sure, we might read a book about sharing our faith or attend a class on evangelism, but apologetics? That’s for “those people” over there.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Joe Carter |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III
The Story: Alabama’s Supreme Court invoked Christian faith and the state’s constitution in ruling that frozen embryos created and stored in IVF clinics can be considered children under state law. The Background: The court’s ruling involves a case in which embryos stored at a fertility clinic were accidentally destroyed. Advertise on TGCIn December 2020, a patient at an Alabama hospital managed to wander into the fertility clinic through an unsecured doorway.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ronnie Martin |Richard Osborne III |Alisa Childers
Some places in God’s creation get under your skin: the Faroe Islands can haunt you, with the world-class beauty of fjords knifing up from the sea and a sense of the extreme solitude that the Faroese live under.
