Dear brother pastor,In a spirit of prayerful expectation, I want to invite you to the Coram Deo Pastors Conference. This new event is hosted by Clearly Reformed (a new ministry I help to lead) and Christ Covenant Church (where I have the privilege of serving as senior pastor). We look forward to filling our sanctuary with nearly 2,000 pastors and church leaders at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina on March 12-14, 2024.

As long as there is sin and suffering in the world, the gospel will be relevant.In the wake of the tragic MSU shooting, Christians must remember that the hope of healing lies in the truth of the gospel.

Derek Thomas, RTS colleague and pastor, talks about his life in ministry. He shares his conversion story, discusses pastoring at a small vs big church, and reveals how he and Ligon Duncan were finalists for the same position.

For many of us, the danger is not that we would explicitly deny the Word of God. The danger is that we nullify the truth in other, more subtle ways.In this article, Kevin reads from a devotional he wrote for "By Faith" for the 50th anniversary of the PCA.

Kevin sits down with John for a return visit to LBE to talk about John’s new book, “Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Second Coming of Christ” (Crossway). Hear what John Piper thinks about the rapture, the millennium, and why it is essential that we love Christ’s appearing. Kevin and John also talk about the long list of books John has written, what he does for fun, and what very long audiobook he is listening to.

We must never use apologetics—or for that matter, contextualization—as a way to make hard truths less noticeable or the offense of the gospel more palatable.In this article from WORLD Opinions, Kevin encourages Christians to be bold and courageous in the face of cultural accusations.

A Princeton University president, teacher, preacher, politician, Declaration of Independence signatory, and a slave owner. As an early American patriot, John Witherspoon has been the center of some recent controversy as a statue of him may be removed from historic Princeton University library grounds.In this episode, Kevin reads from his article written for “Princetonians for Free Speech” and adds new information to his December 2022 article regarding Witherspoon's estate at the end of his life.

Before we denounce most leaders as Pharisees and large swaths of the church as complicit in the evil deeds of darkness, let’s make sure we are not trafficking in well-meaning, but unhelpful, myths.This article, written for WORLD Opinions, urges Christians to be aware of and address sin, but to abstain from assigning widespread guilt to the church as a whole.

If you want a longer-than-usual discussion about football, you’ve come to the right episode. After ruminating on why Americans like football so much, the three amigos turn their attention to more familiar themes, prognosticating on which Christians around today will still be known 50 years from now. This leads to a subsequent discussion about strategy versus faithfulness, and then a final conversation about the missing piety in our age.Timestamps:00:00 Intro and Sponsor 2:11 Banter and Listener Mailbox 5:39 Why Do Americans like Football? 20:36 Who Will We Remember in Fifty Years? 42:31 How Can We Make a Difference 52:47 Have We Become Allergic to Piety? 1:05:40 Sponsor 2 1:06:21 Recent Lessons

In this Episode from an written for Christ Over All, Kevin discusses the moral and economic affects that abortion has on mothers, families, and women.