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Jun 12, 2024 | 
gcdiscipleship.com | Tim Shorey
People are asking me sincere questions these days—questions likely provoked by a combination of my age, my trials, and a desire to hear my heart while there is still time. There’s something about a sixty-five-year-old with stage 4 cancer, a rare and extremely painful bone disease, and a bombardment of utterly debilitating treatments that make folks want to find out more about you and how you have done and are doing life. For me, it is somehow also helpful to think about their questions.
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May 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Tim Shorey |Tim Keller |Edmund P. Clowney |Ashley Anthony
Forsaking Christ (what we call apostasy) is commonplace these days. Many who once walked an aisle, raised a hand, received the Word with joy, and were baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have now renounced that very name. Since the apostles’ day, apostasies have been always present and ever sad.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Tim Shorey
Sometimes it is God’s will that we suffer for his sake. He calls us to it. Afflictions are the present momentary destiny of every believer on their way to glory on the other side. Current trials prepare us for coming glory (2 Cor. 4:16–28). Suffering, and suffering well, form a calling granted to us. It is the Lord’s “assignment” for us. It is something that the Lord considers us worthy of (i.e., it is an honor bestowed upon us). It is the “will of God.” What does this say to me?
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Tim Shorey
I’ve learned that one part of true faith-filled “waiting” is quietness. “In quietness and trust shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15). Quietness is the opposite of striving and panic. It speaks of peaceful rest, a calm while at the storm’s center. As the psalmist put it, when mountains tremble, waters roar, nations rage and kingdoms totter, the trusting weary remain “still,” knowing that God is God (Psalm 46:1–11). Dear Journal,I’ve mentioned before that life is a waiting room.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Cap Stewart |Brett McCracken |Tim Shorey
Editors’ note: This article is also available in Spanish. Around the same time that Martin Luther was penning his theses, Henry VIII was working his way through eight wives, and John Calvin was publishing his Institutes, Queen Isabella was conquering Latin America for Spain and the pope. She suppressed “anything not Catholic, through coercive methods like Spanish Inquisition,” Juan Sánchez, founding Council member of Coalición por el Evangelio, told The Gospel Coalition.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Patrick Miller |Cap Stewart |Brett McCracken |Tim Shorey
“Take a digital sabbath.”“Make your screen grayscale.”“Limit app usage.”A steady stream of click-generating blogs promising to cure our ubiquitous addiction suggests most of us have already taken the first step on the road to recovery: admit you have a problem. Hello, my name is Patrick, and I treat my iPhone like a bodily appendage. The problem is that these prescriptions—many of which I’ve used—treat our digital dopamine dependency as primarily a time trap.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Stephen Witmer |Cap Stewart |Alan Noble |Tim Shorey
Jesus entrusts the task of global missions to every Christian and every church, not just to super-Christians and megachurches. That’s the implication of Matthew 28:18–20. Jesus calls for making disciples of all nations and promises his presence to the end of the age. He’s present with all his people; it follows that the task he gives is for all his people. But small churches may wonder what they can contribute.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Stephanie Formenti |Cap Stewart |Alan Noble |Tim Shorey
Back to school is here. Parents and students are gearing up for a new year: buying supplies, arranging carpools, and stocking the pantry with lunchbox-worthy snacks. The start of school sends many households into preparation mode. Churches, it’s time to do the same. Perhaps you already have plans in place to support families in the back-to-school shuffle. But if your church is near a college or university, you also have an opportunity to support incoming students.
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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).
