Tim Challies

Don’t run away from this blog post just because I’m quoting a Puritan. Yes, Puritans are scary with all their big words and frilly collars, but...

I can understand why and how people could give up leading the local church in favor of the speaking circuit. I began to think about this as Rob...

How do we respond to spiritual abuse internally—in our own hearts, and how do we respond to spiritual abuse “externally”—in our relationship to the...

Spiritual abuse is a term that seems to be gaining a little bit of traction with whole blogs dedicated to it. It describes a clear reality—that...

Obviously the most important part of a prayer life is just praying—I’m sure it’s very easy to get hung up on questions of procedure while...

While I feel the desire to pray and I often long to pray, I find it difficult. So, I have turned to a few pastors I know to ask them how they...

There was a time when homeschooling was a very lonely place to be. Perhaps in some contexts it still is. But it seems that homeschooling has...

There was a time when homeschooling was a very lonely place to be. Perhaps in some contexts it still is. But it seems that homeschooling has...

I recently found myself wondering what it would be like to have someone measuring my popularity on a day-to-day basis. It cannot be fun. I do not...

It was A.W. Tozer who wrote (in The Knowledge of the Holy), “what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about...

Though it's popular to say, “Never criticize any method that God is blessing,” I am convinced that one of the greatest but most subtle spiritual...

Too many people have been taught that Christians—true Christians, good Christians, real Christians—don’t get depressed or that depression is always...

Rumor has it that there is a moral code in professional hockey that guides how players hit each other or when they fight. Supposedly everyone knows...

Should we be surprised that the Lord chose to do such great things through William Carey when he had such a prayer warrior pleading with the Lord...

Instead of allowing God to speak into her circumstances, Naomi interpreted God through those circumstances. When her life was good, God was good;...

John MacArthur is in the midst of penning a series of articles that will address (and encourage and scold) the Young, Restless, Reformed...

Questions are important. But when Rob Bell gets done asking, no matter what answers he puts forward, it seems we’re only left with more questions.

It is here at last. For years now I have been waiting for a great biography of Calvin—the kind of biography which I would recommend without...