Knowing & Doing

Join J.I. Packer, in a past interview with CSLI, reflected on his daily walk with God. Packer covered his schedule, his insights, and revealed how he kept God at the forefront of all his actions during his daily walk with God. Learn more in this audio message narrated by Aimee Riegert. Read this article online .

The Kingdom of God moves forward through Prayer. The Holy Spirit and our prayers to God contain incredible power to bring God’s will. Old Testament patriarchs, the early Church, and Jesus especially, show us and tell us how to pray. We must lean into this power. Praying takes our limited and rational vision of life, and opens our minds to God’s wonderous, glorified plan. Read this article online h...

The Jewish people make up less than one percent of the population, yet their impact on the world and culture is undeniable. Read how Dr. Newman, a Messianic Jew, describes how the Jewish people see the world and why that is important when talking about the matters of pain, pride, pleasure, and promise. Read this article online here .

Once you realize your own worth hinges on Christ and not your resumé, you are freed up to love and appreciate others — regardless of their job or standing in life. A stay-at-home mom shares lessons learned in her journey from "politics to pampers." Read this article online here .

Eighteenth century philosopher and theologian, Jonathan Edwards, speaks to us today as convincingly as several centuries ago. Learn more about the life and faith of one of America's greatest philosophers and theologians. Read the full article here.

Francis August Schaeffer was born on January 30, 1912 in the small town of Germantown, Pennsylvania. His life, books and Switzerland-based ministry L’Abri have had immense and wide-ranging impact on this generation. Schaeffer was known not just for his academic knowledge, but also his ability to answer difficult questions with personal and applicable ‘real knowledge’. He had the keen ability to re...

Rationalism often claims God cannot exist because there is no empirical evidence of God. This, however, is an incoherent argument and impossible to prove because it is a negative assertion. In this podcast, Dr. Lindsley argues that Rationalism is a limited argument. It fundamentally cannot disprove God. When doubts and attacks are prevalent, sometimes the most logical thing to do is to trust and h...

The big moment of abandoning the faith didn't occur out of thin air; there was a gradual slope toward unbelief occurring within the heart. Learn more in this episode featuring insights from Dan Osborne. Recommended Resources: The Danger of Drifting from the Word by John Piper (A message available from DesiringGod.org )  A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfuln...

Joe Loconte reveals to us some of the ways C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien found faith in some of the most unlikely settings – the battlefields of World War I. While many people lost faith in God because of the carnage they experienced during those dark days, Lewis and Tolkien were transformed for eternal beauty. And their friendship after those days encourages all of us in profound ways. Read th...

C.S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity has a claim to being one of the most important religious works of the twentieth century. In this article, George Marsden discusses the origins of the book and its reception, as well as the factors that give the book its ongoing vitality. Read this article online.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a gifted nineteenth century American writer who helped launch a movement of sorts called transcendentalism, in which the individual supplanted religious traditions and institutions. David George Moore argues that while Emerson’s work isn’t well known among Americans, his influence on our lives is incalculable. In this article, he offers suggestions for how Christians can ad...

We might think that the antidote to fear is courage, since it is one of the classical cardinal virtues. But, the biblical response to fear is really hope. Learn more in this message from Dennis Hollinger. Read this article online .

There is no such thing as Hinduism. Hinduism is a word that the British coined as a catch-all term for the innumerable and often contradictory religions they found on the Indian subcontinent. Gerald McDermott presents a thumbnail sketch of Hinduism for Christians. Read the full article here.

Most Christians are taught to believe that ambition is sinful and therefore to be avoided. But what is godly ambition and how can we harness it for good? Discover principles for exercising ambition in an honorable and godly way. Read this article online.

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 .