
New Christian Music for Your Playlist (and Your Church)
A roundup of new Christian music: fresh releases from CityAlight, the Gettys, Sandra McCracken, Shane & Shane, Skillet, and more, with links to listen to them all.

A roundup of new Christian music: fresh releases from CityAlight, the Gettys, Sandra McCracken, Shane & Shane, Skillet, and more, with links to listen to them all.

Alice Cooper’s new memoir Devil on My Shoulder talks openly about God. But is Alice Cooper a Christian? Here are some thoughts after reading his story.

Blue Planet, Past the Gates 🎵, Lobster Is Lobster, Radio Garden, Blue Planet, Comedy Wildlife Awards

All has been well, and your life has been good. It has been easy to love God and trust him, to pray to him and sing his praises. But then suddenly you are struck by a great trial or a deep sorrow, and for a time it can be difficult to adjust. Here are truths…

These are Prime Big Deal Days at Amazon. This page is a roundup of some of the best deals I’ve been able to track down. Check in a couple of times on Tuesday and Wednesday as I’ll be adding deals as I find them.

Ed Sheeran’s is in a heap of trouble. His shift from neutrality to attempting to mollify both sides has done little to rescue him from the mob. To understand why, I have been helped by Carl Trueman.

Works & Wonders: Eclipse Chasing, Gilded Mansions, Other Windows, The Risen Conqueror, Astronomy Photography, Ask and Expect

A year’s worth of complete worship liturgies—calls to worship, confessions, benedictions, and full services. They are free to use or adapt, with no attribution needed.

A few years ago, I proposed to my fellow elders at Grace Fellowship Church that we stop singing songs by Hillsong. After some clarifying discussion, we agreed that we would not. The same reasoning applies to Elevation and Bethel. Here’s an explanation.

Works & Wonders: Small World, Voices, BingeBrowse, The Bayeux Tapestry Story, One Bedroom Apartment, Earth Music Theater, and a Sunday Devotional

Meryl Streep voices a Bowie-inspired and rainbow-striped Aslan. Is Greta Gerwig’s Narnia a tribute to C.S. Lewis, or a deathwork that profanes what he made?

G3 Ministries is no longer in operation. Here are two lessons I have drawn from its demise: a founder’s weaknesses go deep, and right action is not always sufficient action.

Works & Wonders: New music, fall migration, the perfect photo, Abide with Me at a royal funeral, underground aqueducts.

I recently saw a photo that alarmed me. Several men were participating in a panel discussion at a major conference, and I realized that almost all of them had either died or been disqualified from leadership—two very different ways for a ministry to come to an end.

Every church needs an abuse prevention policy. Here’s what a good one accomplishes, who should oversee it, and some helpful resources for drafting your own.

Works & Wonders: Wonderful Paradoxes, Stone Wall Trees, Spiral Embryos, Saved by Grace, Play the 101, Just as He Said.

Scammers are using AI to target Christian authors. They use fake marketing, offers of translation, and fabricated book clubs. Here’s how to recognize the scams and how to avoid being fooled by them.

When Netflix announced they would debut a Little House on the Prairie series, I received the news with a sense of dread. While I knew it could be like All Creatures Great and Small and remain relatively faithful to the spirit of much-loved books, it could also be like Rings of Power and be anything…

Works & Wonders: Beautiful creation / Photography awards / Blackwing pencils / World’s narrowest islands / Be a stowaway / Vanished Vikings.

Christian, your pastor may someday fall. I certainly hope that’s never the case, and I hope he, like the great majority of his peers, remains qualified to the very end of his time in ministry. But even though it may be unlikely that his ministry collapses under the weight of scandal, immorality, or disqualification, it…