By Matt Queen One evening several years ago, a Maryville, Tenn., college student named George leaped out of bed, switched on his light, and shouted to his roommate, “I’ve got it! I’ve got it!” Awakened from his sleep, the roommate asked, “What have you got, George?” George replied, “Everyone in the U.S. has a chance...

By Greg Gibson The opposite of a gospel-centered husband, I think, is a comfortable husband. The adjectives gospel-centered and comfortable don’t really fit together in a gospel-centered home.[1]  What is more, a comfortable husband might be simply okay with the current status of his home; he might be prone to a posture of passiveness; he...

By Jason G. Duesing Near the end of his life, the pioneer American missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), returned to America for the first time since he departed nearly 35 years prior. The twice–widowed Judson along with his children came in need of recuperation and rest and were welcomed with virtual celebrity status all along the...

By Tom Nettles Charles Haddon Spurgeon experienced a constant flow of impressions early in life that settled many issues of personal integrity and faithfulness to one’s calling. He recalled clearly how, when allowed to sit in the studies of his grandfather or father, as they prepared to preach on Sundays, he must not speak or...

By Kyle Worley The last decade has seen a proliferation of the bromance comedy.  Movies like I Love You, Man, Superbad, The Hangover Trilogy along with television shows like the Jersey Shore have helped to build the foundation of what has become a culturally pervasive phenomenon: bromance. What is bromance? John Elder, writing over at “The Age,”...

By Grant Castleberry When it comes to how the great Christians of the past saw and understood human sexuality and roles in marriage and the church, most of them simply operated under the biblical constructs that they saw in the Bible. They believed that marriage could only exist between a man and a woman, that...