Join us to hear Tullian Tchividjian, Pastor, Author, and Grandson of Billy Graham, in his very first visit to Wheaton. Tullian’s sermon, Dry Bones Live: Developing Gospel Renewal, promises to lift our sights above the horizon of life’s hopelessness to behold the promise of God’s redemptive love in Jesus Christ.

The most tentative and enfeebled preacher possesses power to speak life into dead bones. Why? Because Jesus Christ swallowed up death, the Savior who shed his blood and rose victoriously from the grave.

Matthew Barrett and the boys at Credo Magazine have put together a great volume. Enjoy!

Adding an addendum to Billy Collins’ prose, feels like putting a bumper sticker on a Mercedes, but it’s a necessary one. Here it is: While the sobering sense of grey now threatens to crowd out the color of my son’s youth, there is a sure and living hope …

Why would we love something that is strange? All the things I love are eminently familiar to me: my family, my church, my pillow.

Since Angela and I met Ester Montefalcone in 2006, we have affectionately called her “the female version of the Apostle Paul.” Ester’s gospel-centered vision and drive is inspiring, as the following overview of her ministry illustrates. Please join us in praying for our dear Sorella

We pray that God will be pleased to use the church to reach the city with the power of the Gospel.

It is a Gospel Coalition chapter championed by local pastors and a biblical training initiative called the Antioch School Hawaii. The following interview with Todd Morikawa and Dr. Chris Bruno offers an inside look at the ministry.

You don’t always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they’d be better dead.

We do not grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ by leaps and bounds but some try. They bounce from one mountain peak of Christian experience to another. Every year or so they make a new start, turn a new leaf…