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A Trusted and Helpful Guide To the Bible | Tim Challies
One of the best things I have ever done is to get into the habit of reading through the entire Bible every year—or almost every year, at least. While this necessarily involves sacrificing some depth, it involves gaining breadth.
The Most Exasperating and Least Rewarding | Tim Challies
I find few of life’s experiences more exasperating and less rewarding than buying a new car.
Go Ahead, Bring a Knife to a Gunfight | Tim Challies
They say you should never bring a knife to a gunfight.
Draw Near Instead of Run Away | Tim Challies
It has often been said that any church would be perfect if it weren't for all the people!
Just the Right Hymnal For You, Your Family, and Your Church | Tim Challies
I have come to realize that I probably felt a little skeptical about the new Sing! Hymnal from Getty Music.
Rise with the Sun: A New Song with CityAlight | Tim Challies
It is a tremendous joy to tell you about a new song I have had the pleasure of creating with my friends from CityAlight—a song that wonderfully complements From the Rising of the Sun: A Journey of Worship Around the World.
The Mysterious Power of Male Sexuality | Tim Challies
Some of the best things in life are also some of the most dangerous. They are both beneficial and dangerous because they are powerful, and any kind of power can be used to accomplish great good or great evil.
90 Gallons of Water vs 9 Drops of Rain | Tim Challies
Though the local church is a community of Christians and exists primarily for the benefit of Christians, it is also a community that gladly welcomes as guests those who are not yet believers.
Some Unexpected Blessings of Christian Friendship | Tim Challies
While I was sitting at John MacArthur’s memorial service and hearing his friends tell of their love for him (and his for them), I began to ponder some of the unexpected blessings that have come with both having friends and being a friend.
The Times When You Are Most Vulnerable | Tim Challies
This is an opportunity that exists in any suffering: To answer the sneers of the world. So you can show the world around that no matter what God takes from you, you will continue to love him, you will continue to praise him, you will continue to cling to his promises.
Are You Grounded? | Tim Challies
Psalm 92 commends those who do not merely go through the outward motions of religion, but who genuinely and from the heart love to praise and honor God. "The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Good News for Parents | Tim Challies
Most parents I know could do with a bit of good news. Though parenting brings many joys, it also brings its share of struggles and sorrows.
Learning To Have Conversations with God | Tim Challies
I was just a young child when my parents told me I ought to begin daily devotions. I began the habit when I was perhaps eight or ten years old and have largely stuck with it for the past four decades.
From the Rising of the Sun: Introducing My New Book & Documentary | Tim Challies
Get ready to travel the globe and experience the beauty of Christian worship like never before. That's what I hope and trust you'll gain as you read my new book and watch my new documentary titled From the Rising of the Sun—a project I created in collaboration with my friend Tim Keesee.
To Be Almost Saved Is To Be Completely Lost | Tim Challies
Along the coast of New York is a little town called East Hampton. And I recently read that there is a cemetery in East Hampton where you can find 12 identical graves that have been laid side by side.1 There’s a story behind them, of course.
Dad, Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot | Tim Challies
Part of what we must model to our children is the centrality of the local church in the life and faith of the Christian.
Should You Share the Gospel with Your Catholic Friends? | Tim Challies
It is a question that seems to arise time and again and year after year: How should Protestants relate to Roman Catholics? Are Catholics faithful brothers and sisters in the Lord?
In My Father’s School Are Many Classrooms | Tim Challies
We know what Jesus said about our eternal destination: “In my Father’s house are many rooms” (or, in its older rendering, “in my Father’s house are many mansions”). We know that God has prepared a place for us to live with him forever—a place of safety, peace, and rest.
What I Use (and Don’t Use) To Make this Site | Tim Challies
A friend recently said something that disquieted me. He said that he assumes I make use of AI in creating the articles I post to this site or in selecting the articles I link to on other sites.
The Custom-Crafted Church | Tim Challies
Though every child at times wishes it were otherwise, we do not get to choose our brothers and sisters.