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Biblical Thinking for Christian Living

  • For the Heart
    • Practical Ideas for Laying Up Heavenly Treasure

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, May 6, 2025
    • Answer the Call: Why Are the Lost Unreached?

      M. R. Conrad, March 20, 2025
    • Resisting Slow Decay: Choosing Effort Over Ease

      M. R. Conrad, March 19, 2025
  • Knowing the Word
    • Agreement On These Truths Will Diminish Charismatic Confusion

      Avatar photo Seth Meyers, June 2, 2025
    • Do You Speak “Churchese”? Ask Jesus Into Your Heart

      M. R. Conrad, May 20, 2025
    • The Cosmic Gospel: Stewardship of The Mystery

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, April 23, 2025
  • Ministry
    • Do You Feel Called By God? Rethinking the Call to Ministry

      Avatar photo Forrest McPhail, May 27, 2025
    • Why Do We Say “Ask Jesus Into Your Heart”?

      M. R. Conrad, May 22, 2025
    • 17 Gospel Encouragements to Overcome Barriers to Biblical Hospitality

      Desiree Talbert, May 13, 2025
  • Quotes
    • Peter Rumachik: Russian Prison, Centipedes, and God at Work

      M. R. Conrad, May 2, 2025
    • Just Who Is Lottie Moon?

      M. R. Conrad, February 25, 2025
    • The Story You Never Heard: The Ecuador Missionary Who Survived

      M. R. Conrad, October 24, 2024
  • About Us
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For the HeartKnowing the Word

Bibles are not talismans. It’s about the words.

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, December 4, 2017

There’s a very striking story about a man who never learned to read but who had a well-worn Bible. Someone asked him why the pages …

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Thankfulness
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What is thanksgiving anyway?

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, November 21, 2017

Each year at thanksgiving I feel a certain mental tension. If I go through the exercise of listing the things for which I’m thankful, I …

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Current Events

Sexual Misconduct in the News: Avoiding the Hype and Hypocrisy

Avatar photo Jonathan Threlfall, November 14, 2017

But when a bright star falls, we find it easy, respectable, and socially gratifying to share a post in which we register our rage against their sexual misconduct. It is much harder—and less flashy—to pray in private for the abusers and the abused. It is even harder to confess and forsake our own sins.

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Arrival
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Our First Four Years—A Retrospective

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, November 2, 2017

Four years ago today my family arrived at our new home in the Philippines. Everything seemed strange, opaque; a new, inscrutable reality in which everything …

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Knowing the Word

Finish Your Year With a Bang—100 Day Challenge

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, September 22, 2017

We’ve written before about binge reading the Bible—the idea of getting through the entire book in a short enough time that you can still remember …

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For the Heart

Embodying Masculinity in a World that Rejects It

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, September 20, 2017

I was recently invited to speak for a weekend conference for men, discussing our roles in the family and the church. Topics like this kill …

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For the HeartWorldview

Find Your Passion? Or Live for a Greater Cause?

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, September 1, 2017

I try not to make a habit of this, but I’m going to start out by telling you a lie. It’s a lie that you …

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Current Events

From whence come these wars and fightings?

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, August 18, 2017

Racism and the national response to it is back in the news. In one sense, it’s hard to say it’s back in the news because …

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Christian MediaKnowing the Word

Bible Study Tools That Don’t Cost a Dime

Avatar photo Jonathan Threlfall, July 27, 2017

Ranging from complex to simple, here are four Bible study tools that are fully online, completely free, and will help you more thoroughly engage with Scripture.

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For the Heart

Smart Machines and Foolish People

Joel Arnold Joel Arnold, July 24, 2017

We humans like to talk about human ingenuity as our own greatest hope. We’re confident that if we work together we can solve society’s worst problems. We’ll even pretend that we can deliver the planet. But we’d also like to keep the argument in our back pocket that when things go badly wrong God should have done something.

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