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Law and Grace in 'Les Mis'
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables was considered a literary powerhouse long before Alain Boubeil and Claude-Michel Schonberg wrote their musical based on the story in 1980. But that production, translated...
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Better Body Building
Even in elementary schools girls already grade each other's appearance and claim they need to diet. We laugh at Honey Boo Boo on TV and sign up our kids for fitness classes. Mothers apologize to one...
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Singleness Is Not a Curse
Almost every day, it seems, we read news of another daunting challenge to Christians who seek to love our neighbors by teaching and practicing a biblical view of marriage. Just this week, one of the...
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Carson's Lessons from the Good Times and Bad
There's something about reading accounts of churches enjoying unusual fruit in evangelism and discipleship that makes us to long for the same in ours. Accounts like the 18th-century Great Awakening in...
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Should You Cancel Good Friday?
Your Protestant church probably doesn't observe the church calendar that marks such events as Epiphany and Pentecost. You might even regard this structure as legalistic, subversive of the true gospel...
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The Only God Is Trinity
When we think of the Trinity, we tend to think of systematic and historical theology: ancient councils, obscure debates, and dangerous heresies. But what difference does the Trinity make in our...
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Fight for Both Marriage and Religious Freedom
When gay marriage was unpopular a few short years ago, advocates appealed to tolerance and minority rights. But now that public opinion has shifted, supporters of gay marriage warn skeptics to get in...
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What Could Be More Practical and Loving than Studying the Bible?
We divide our energies and activities between doing and thinking. Some of us would rather think, and some of us would rather do. Some of us would rather study the Bible in our small groups and...
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The Storyframes Collective
Every Christian is a storyteller. To share the gospel is to tell someone a story about what God has done for the world through Jesus Christ. To be entrusted with the gospel is to own the responsibility...
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Piper on Regrets and Retirement
Shortly after John Piper concluded his 33-year pastorate at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, FakeJohnPiper tweeted his week one retirement to-do list: "Catch up on 'Little House on the Prairie'...
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A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
Rod Dreher's younger sister, Ruthie Leming, was diagnosed with terminal cancer when she was only 40 years old. A beloved middle school teacher, mother to three young girls, and the happy wife of her...
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TGC13 Media Now Available
Last month around 5,000 of us from 49 states and 41 countries gathered in Orlando to worship our risen and reigning King. At our Missions Pre-Conference (7 plenaries, 15 workshops) we pondered our...
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Better Body Building
Even in elementary schools girls already grade each other's appearance and claim they need to diet. We laugh at Honey Boo Boo on TV and sign up our kids for fitness classes. Mothers apologize to one...
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Out of the Rubble, Hope for Revival
Before long another natural or man-made disaster will dominate cable news. After the latest Moore we forget the last Joplin, after the latest Newtown we forget the last Aurora. Though we'll soon...
View ArticleThe Gospel Coalition: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
From a Manhattan sidewalk cafe in 2002 to a Pastors' Colloquium in 2004 to the first National Conference in 2007, The Gospel Coalition's beginnings make for an interesting story. In this ten-minute...
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To Ruin Sports, Idolize Them
MTV no longer plays music videos. The History Channel no longer discusses history. Before long ESPN may no longer show sports highlights. The so-called worldwide leader in sports will feature nothing...
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Announcing TGC's Live Worship Album featuring Keith and Kristyn Getty
This past spring, some 5,000 people from 49 states and 41 countries streamed to Orlando for our 2013 National Conference. Through plenary talks and workshops, focus gatherings and auxiliary events, we...
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How to Prepare for Pain and Suffering
You wouldn't want someone to hand you this book, because it probably means you're enduring hardship and suffering. But you need to read this book, preferably before the hardship and suffering...
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Flight or Fright? How to Redeem Halloween
Every year Halloween seems to grow in popularity. Bigger decorations, better candy, badder costumes. And every year Christians wonder how to handle this strange event that brings neighbors together...
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Gladwell on Power and the Weapons of the Spirit
As Son of God from before the beginning of time, Jesus wielded unfathomable power. Yet he was born in a lowly manger and learned the carpentry trade in a backwater town. According to the apostle Paul,...
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