David Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?

If God Speaks: One Voice That Changes Everything

David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.

Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus

David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.

Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings

When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?

Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel

God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.

God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence

What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.

Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson

David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.

The Leader You Long to Follow

Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.

The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)

God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.

The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)

David Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.

Why We Sing About the Blood

What excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.

More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed

Christ’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.

Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches

What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.

Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education

David Mathis | Neither biographers nor Broadway can ignore Alexander Hamilton’s late-flowering Christian faith. He, like the prodigal son, finally came home after his journey into the far country.

Hamilton: An American Prodigal

As we age, fears can multiply like wrinkles. But for every concern, we have a blood-bought promise far, far older than our fears.

Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age

David Mathis | Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.

Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith

While on earth, Jesus spoke with unmatched power. Demons obeyed him, and fevers fled at his word. Everything was subject to him — then and now.

The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King

David Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?

Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors

David Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.

The Story of the Greatest Coronation

When a Christian goes home to be with the Lord, we who remain have the chance to rehearse God’s loving design in every believer’s death.

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