Knowing & Doing

Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the Holy Community as food nurtures the human body. Eugene Peterson helps us understand how we can find nourishment from the Bible. Read this full article here.

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the relationship between Christianity and the natural sciences. Oxford Professor Alister McGrath illustrates how Christianity helps make sense of the world and provides a framework for both science and a spirituality of nature. Read this full article online .

The modern world tends to downplay or deny the reality of death, relegating it behind closed doors or to a few lines in the back of the newspaper. Death is considered a rare stranger instead of a certain and approaching visitation. But ignoring death is short-sighted and can prevent us from living fully. Death not only filters our priorities, it also filters our passions. In this insightful messag...

We’re burdened for our friends who don’t know the joy of the Gospel. So how do we approach evangelism and apologetics? Randy Newman shares our need to ask God to reshape us so we truly love people and see them as “precious, eternal, valuable souls.” Furthermore, he suggests that we must adjust our approaches to sharing the Gospel according to the dramatic changes in our culture.  Read this article...

Christians aren't immune to evil, but skeptics are often quick to seize on a Christian's bad behavior as reason to discount the faith. The gospel can uniquely address the skeptic’s contention – because the gospel’s response is to demonstrate that there is Someone they can trust. Read this article online .

Our desire to pray is God’s gift of love and friendship to us. Learn more about the relationship between prayer and friendship with God in this insightful message from Dr. James Houston. To read this article online, please click here.

How can we present Jesus Christ to the world in a way that is simultaneously authentic and relevant? How can we be loyal to the authentic Jesus and simultaneously present him relevantly to our contemporaries?   Read this article online.

Do you desire to be successful? What would that look like? In our world today there are numerous definitions of success and failure. But God’s blessing, God’s protection, God’s presence, God’s grace, God’s peace—that all adds up to being fulfilled and being complete. That is success. Anything else is, ultimately, failure. Read this article online.

You can experience the freedom and fulness of life that God intended. Discover how you can be set free and empowered to live a new life—a life that transforms, blesses others, and glorifies God. To read this article online,  please click here .

In this issue we turn our attention to our treatment of “the flesh,” the third member of what has been called “the unholy trinity.” If we don’t understand the flesh rightly, we cannot rightly understand sin and how to deal with it. This is the heritage of everyone born into the world since Adam and Eve. To read this article online, please click here .

What does the New Testament mean by the word world ? In this issue we will seek to understand the world system, its origin and nature, and how the devil works through it to enslave and destroy God’s people and thwart His kingdom. This is part two in a four-part series. To read this article online, please click here .

The world, the flesh, and the devil present three major hindrances to following Jesus Christ. In part one of a four-part series we'll explore what the Bible teaches about the devil. And you'll learn how you can overcome the presence and power of evil in your life. To read this article online, please click here . Resources: For more information about spiritual warfare please visit Standing Strong i...

In this second installment of Who is God? , Tom Tarrants explores the unchanging nature of God as revealed in the Bible. Read this article online. Recommended Reading: The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything by Fred Sanders (Crossway, 2010)

The greatest need of every true believer (and nonbeliever) today is the recovery of a right view of God. From this flows everything else. Read this article online. Recommended Reading: The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

Dr. McGrath shares ways in which the Christian faith helps us make sense of the world and how natural sciences can help our thinking about our faith. Read this article online. Recommended Reading: Science & Religion: A New Introduction by Alister McGrath (2020)

Most of us live our daily existence in denial of the possibility of death. Yet how does an awareness of our mortality affect the way that we live? When we schedule our priorities and follow our passions without regard to eternity, our vision becomes distorted. We miss the big picture. Gary Thomas shares insights into how a Christian understanding of death can help us turn our lives the right side...

In a world where most struggle for any clear moral foundation, God presents before us an opportune moment. Learn more in this episode with Dennis Hollinger narrated by Aimee Riegert.  Read this article online.

Randy Newman explains that before we even start some evangelistic conversations, the deck is stacked against us, as nonbelievers assume they’re morally or intellectually superior to believers. Many outside the faith see us as narrow-minded, in­tolerant, homophobic simpletons. He gives us some valuable techniques to level the playing field so our words are considered rather than dismissed. Read thi...

Jerram Barrs challenges us to consider what it means to work as unto the Lord and to honor those who do so. Learn more about the place and value of work in a life of worship.  Read this article online.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's life and writing were deeply influenced by his religious faith. Learn more about J.R.R. Tolkien's spiritual journey, his friendships with others like C.S. Lewis, and the impact Tolkien's faith had on his creative writing. Read this article online .

In the second installment of this two-part series, Dr. Aikman points to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s warnings of the war between intellectual forces on one side who describe themselves as “progressive” and those on the other who are advocates of a Judeo-Christian worldview. Read more here .

Like most of pre-Soviet Russia, Solzhenitsyn had been born into a Christian tradition and was baptized as a child. However, as Marxism took hold throughout the country, atheism became Aleksandr’s world view. Learn how he came to turn from atheism and fully embrace Christianity. . . Read this article online .

Composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote masterpieces that have found their way into the standard repertoires of major orchestras for decades. CSLI Senior Teaching Fellow, Randy Newman, shares how Rachmaninoff’s music can help us experience “longing” and beauty in profound ways. And he shares details about the composer’s life that may inspire you.

After the Bible, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is the best-selling Christian book of all time, and for centuries was widely read and highly influential in evangelical households. In recent years, however, this book has been read by fewer people, in part due to its now archaic language. In this article, Edward Glancy recommends this classic book and passes on a number of tips for reading it toda...

We have little idea what brought Perpetua to faith in Christ, or how long she had been a Christian, but thanks  to her diary, and that of another prisoner, we have some idea of her last days—an ordeal that so impressed the famous Augustine that he preached four sermons about her death. Learn more in this special Knowing & Doing Podcast. To read this article online, please click here .