Todd R. Hains is the editor of The Collected Christian Essentials Catechism: A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer. This book is perfect for daily devotions, personal study, and prayer with others. The catechism— the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer—has sustained and nurtured every generation
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Church Music: For the Care of Souls: An Interview with Phillip Magness
In Church Music: For the Care of Souls, Phillip Magness helps the church to recover the primary instrument in worship: congregational voices. During our interview detailed below, Magness shares how “The Lord has given us a song to sing, a community to sing with, and all the talent we really need to proclaim the story of
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A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: An Interview with John Andrew Bryant
As Bryant notes, A Quiet Mind to Suffer With, is “The story of Christ’s nearness to my own suffering…and how Christ will use even our agony and despair to turn us into servants and guests of the mercy offered in his gospel.” Below, we talk deeper into A Quiet Mind to Suffer With and Bryant’s
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I’m a Christian—Now What?: An Interview with Aaron Armstrong
If you are a new Christian, you are on a new path. But where are you going and how do you get there? As an adult convert, Aaron Armstrong had to face these questions himself. Today, we interview Armstrong about his new book, I’m a Christian—Now What? A Guide to Your New Life With Christ.
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Prayers for Lent: A Free Reflection Guide
The forty days of Lent are a time for pondering and praying the life of Jesus—in particular, “he suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.” In his death and suffering, we find life. When we know Christ and the power of his death and resurrection, we also share in the fellowship of
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The FatCat Series Enlarges with Three More Children’s Books
Bellingham, WA — FatCat, the friendly feline first won over our hearts in February with the release of The Apostles’ Creed: For All God’s Children. In October, two more FatCat books will pounce onto the scene, with at least one more joining them in 2023: The Lord’s Prayer: For All God’s Children, art by Natasha Kennedy and
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Let Us Learn from Those Being Revived: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church
In this excerpt from the foreword to Faith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church, Timothy Keller considers the lessons Christians can learn from the persecution experienced by the Chinese Church. Many Christians in the West are concerned that our secular societies are becoming more inhospitable to Christian faith and practice. We
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Let Us Fall Into the Hand of the Lord
In this excerpt from Faith in the Wilderness: Exhortations from the Chinese Church, Guo Muyun reflects on the nature of disasters and finding God’s great mercy in midst of them. There is a popular song adapted from a poem by Yu Xinqiao. The refrain, which is also the name of the song, repeats: “In this
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Fifty Years of American Evangelical Thinking about the Gospel and Creation
In this excerpt from the introduction to Stewards of the Earth: Christianity and Creation Care, Loren Wilkinson reflects on the varying attitudes evangelical Christians in America have had towards environmental concerns and creation care over the last 50 years. Over the last half century we humans have become gradually aware that our presence is damaging
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Suffering and Submission in Gethsemane
This post was written by Nancy Guthrie and originally published by Christianity Today in April 2019. “He fell with his face to the ground and prayed,‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be takenfrom me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.’ ”—Matthew 26:39 When we sing the old hymn “I
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