Three Marks of a Good Christian Book
Not every book marketed as ‘Christian’ is worth your time. Here are three marks—truth, love, and beauty—that can help you discern which Christian books are truly worth reading.
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Grief Can Pull Spouses Apart (but God Can Hold Them Together)
Husbands and wives often grieve the same loss in very different ways. Here is how couples can love one another well when sorrow comes between them.
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What Will Quiet Your Restless Heart?
Christians long for forgiveness, joy, justice, and heaven—but beneath every desire lies a deeper hunger for God himself, the only treasure who can truly quiet our restless hearts.
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What a Good Marriage Sounds Like to Your Children
Before your children ever read a book on marriage, they are ‘reading’ yours. What is your marriage sounding like in their ears today?
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What Did You Give Up When You Became a Christian?
To follow Christ is to give things up—habits, desires, even relationships. But you never walk away empty-handed. You release what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose.
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Those Already Present and Those Who Have Not Yet Arrived
For 2000 years, God’s people have been praying the same prayer: “Come, Lord Jesus.” It is a good prayer, and a biblical one. Yet for 2,000 years God has delayed in answering it. This delay can be perplexing and even frustrating.
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The Deepest Thirst of All
The God who created us formed us in such a way that we are not meant to exist apart from him. To live apart from God is the spiritual equivalent of trying to live without food and water. It will lead only to weakness, pain, and death.
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New and Notable Christian Books for February 2026
Not a single month goes by without Christian publishers providing us with great new resources. Thankfully, most of those new books end up in my mailbox. That allows me to sort through them and distil them down to a list like this one: A list of new and notables.
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30 Christian Substacks I Read and Recommend in 2026
t is a blessing to have so many dedicated and talented Christian writers who are willing to share their work with us. Many of them choose to share it through Substack, a platform for email newsletters. I follow all kinds of Substacks and thought it might be helpful to create a roundup of some of…
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Random Thoughts and Tips on Prayer
Not every thought makes a good article and sometimes an entire article can be distilled down to a single thought. For those reasons, I like to occasionally create what I have created here–a roundup of brief, random thoughts. In this case, these thoughts are on prayer.
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The Most Quotable Quote
Tim Keller was a very quotable individual, but of all the quotes he left us, I expect one will prove the most widely shared. It speaks, of course, of the gospel—the good news, the great news, the wondrous news, the sends-chills-up-my-spine news, the brings-tears-to-my-eyes news, the I-wouldn’t-believe-it-if-God-hadn’t-said-it news of what Jesus Christ has accomplished on…
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Do You Board First or Last?
There are some travelers who like to board an airplane at the earliest possible moment. There are others who prefer to board at the last. Some rush the gate the very second the gate agents announce that boarding has commenced, while some linger until they have sounded the final call.
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A Simple Way To Ensure You Use AI Well (And Not Poorly)
Every new technology introduces both benefits and drawbacks to its users and to the wider culture. The world being what it is, there are always plusses and minuses, so that even as a new tech gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. We are quickly learning that Artificial Intelligence is no exception…
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For Our Good, Not For Our Bondage
Matthew Henry once said that when we are out of the way of duty, we are in the way of temptation. Yet Jerry Bridges warns that the spiritual disciplines are privileges to be used, not duties to be performed. So are they duties or are they not?
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Do You Have to Choose Between Science and God?
Whatever else young people know today, they know that science and God are opposed to one another. At least, they think they know this, because it has been taught to them in a hundred formal and informal settings, from the classroom to the television. They have been taught that they must choose between science and…
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12 General Market Books I Have Enjoyed Recently
While I am committed to reading and reviewing Christian books, I also enjoy reading a steady diet of books published for the general market. I suppose my interests lean toward history, but I do read other books as well. Here are a few of the titles I’ve enjoyed over the past couple of months.
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Performative Grief
We all know what it is to perform grief—to ensure that others are aware of our sadness by forcing them to see our sorrow. We may do this to gain their attention or compel their sympathy. We may do this because we make grief an idol and are only validated when others feel sorry for…
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The Breakthrough Prayer
I am certain you have had a time when the Lord has brought you to a sudden, unexpected point of repentance or resolution. Perhaps you’ve been fostering a sin, and while you may have known it was sin, you haven’t been willing to deal with it—to put it to death and come alive to righteousness.…
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In the Way of Temptation
We do not often speak of duty today, but Christians traditionally spoke of it often. In fact, Christians understood the means of grace as duties, responsibilities of every believer toward God. And while these duties are the means through which God provides us with his grace, they are also the means through which God guards…
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Tiptoeing to the Edge of Cliffs
Not too long ago, there was a trend in which people would see how close they could come to being hit by a train without actually being hit by a train. That’s about as stupid a game as I can imagine. Play stupid games, win stupid games, as the kids say. But researching sin when…