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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	God of Holy Laughter	06 Apr 2025	00:07:48
David Mathis \| When God laughs, he reminds us that he never worries, he never fears, and he is never under threat. The holy laughter of God puts his people at ease, and calls us to happily trust in him.
	Back When We Had Friends: Why Brothers Still Need Brothers	04 Apr 2025	00:13:48
Greg Morse \| Men, do you have friends — not mere acquaintances you shake hands with once a week, but brothers who labor and laugh and live with you? You need such men.
	Brothers, Consider Your Spirit: The Manly Business of Pastoring	14 Feb 2025	00:15:55
Greg Morse \| The pastorate is a manly vocation — one that no man should do alone. Pastors need the Spirit of courage, power, love, and self-control.
	To War, to Christ, to Glory	03 Apr 2024	00:14:03
Greg Morse \| If God is for us in spiritual war, then who can stand against us? Rise up, men of the cross, sisters of the crown, soldiers of Christ.
	Risen to Love His Own: The Surprising Mercies of Easter	31 Mar 2024	00:12:25
Scott Hubbard \| On the first Easter, Jesus surprised our sorrow with joy, our guilt with forgiveness, our confusion with clarity. And so he still surprises today.
	Life Is for Living	30 Mar 2024	00:13:57
Greg Morse \| How needful is it to know our end before we get there? How priceless to feel our fleetness before our ship sails?
	Good Friday for Bad People	29 Mar 2024	00:11:39
Marshall Segal \| Good Friday bids us to stop and remember just how sinful we were — just how bleak it was for us before that darkest day in history.
	Bring Your Grief to Gethsemane: The Healing Wounds of Maundy Thursday	28 Mar 2024	00:11:41
David Mathis \| Tonight is not first about our griefs. But as we draw near to the sorrows of Jesus, we do indeed find comfort for every grief — and grace for every sin.
	What (Not) to Preach: How to Build and Cut a Sermon	23 Mar 2024	00:11:24
David Mathis \| After a preacher has wrestled for days, even weeks, with a sermon text, and wrestled hard with the needs of his particular people, he can ask, Which glories here am I most excited to preach?
	Restore My Soul: In Pursuit of Personal Revival	20 Mar 2024	00:11:17
Scott Hubbard \| Follow Christ long enough, and you’ll find yourself in some spiritual valley, in desperate need of renewal. When you do, follow the map God has drawn for us: Remember. Return. Remove. Restore.
	Sin Won’t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting	16 Mar 2024	00:11:32
Marshall Segal \| The “comforts” of sin may seem safer and more appealing in the fires of your trials, but they will only make your pain that much worse.
	Revival in the Making: God’s Central Means for Spiritual Renewal	13 Mar 2024	00:13:17
David Mathis \| Seeming revivals come and go, but genuine, God-wrought awakenings share one vital ingredient: they are centered on the word of God.
	The Joy of Genuine Revival: Four Signs of the Holy Spirit	09 Mar 2024	00:11:54
Marshall Segal \| When the Holy Spirit fills a person, he brings supernatural, countercultural joy: joy that submits, joy that endures, joy that spreads, and joy that waits.
	Better to Give Than to Get? Remembering God’s Promise of Reward	11 Feb 2025	00:15:08
David Mathis \| “More blessed to give than to receive.” These simple words from Jesus can transform burdensome requests into happy opportunities to get more from God as we give to others.
	Start Small, Step Up, and Fail Well: How to Pursue Pastoral Ministry	06 Mar 2024	00:13:06
Scott Hubbard \| Before you are called to pastor Christ’s church, practice serving her, loving her, edifying her. Let your favorite word while you wait be “progress.”
	Why We Long for Revival	02 Mar 2024	00:11:14
Jon Bloom \| Why do earnest Christians long for revival? Because revival gives us more of our heart’s deepest desire and strongest delight: Jesus.
	Uprooting Sensibility: The Plain Speech of Godly Men	24 Feb 2024	00:15:54
Greg Morse \| Politeness and niceness are not the only categories of godly speech. Sometimes, the painful word is best, even if it incites offense.
	Are You Sailing or Sinking? A Tool for Diagnosing Spiritual Health	21 Feb 2024	00:14:46
Marshall Segal \| If you want to assess the health of a soul, try asking these four questions from Tim Keller: Are you sailing? Are you rowing? Are you drifting? Or are you sinking?
	Even Believers Need to Be Warned: How Hell Motivates Holiness	18 Feb 2024	00:13:54
Scott Hubbard \| When Paul mentioned hell, he warned not only the lost, but believers. Why might that be, and should we be warning one another in the church today?
	The Gospel of God’s Happiness	16 Feb 2024	00:14:00
Greg Morse \| God was happy before this world existed, and he’ll be happy long after it passes away. Have you been properly introduced to the happiness of heaven?
	Hell Can Heal Any Bitterness: Finding Peace in God’s Vengeance	10 Feb 2024	00:14:31
Marshall Segal \| Forgiveness may feel impossible right now, but you can find peace, even pursue peace, by learning to trust God and his coming, perfect justice.
	Hell Is for Real	07 Feb 2024	00:12:52
Greg Morse \| If we really believed in hell — in eternal, conscious torment — might we have more courage to tell people about Jesus?
	Hand Back the Fruit: Trusting God with the Mysteries of Evil	05 Feb 2024	00:11:09
Jon Bloom \| How can we respond when faced with profound and seemingly senseless evil? We can begin by cultivating the spiritual discipline of handing the fruit back to God.
	Hell Should Unsettle Christians: Embracing the Most Emotionally Difficult Doctrine	03 Feb 2024	00:12:14
David Mathis \| Eternal conscious punishment may be the most emotionally difficult doctrine to affirm in our day. How do we handle the existential angst that hell creates?
	Laugh Before Devils: Joy as Spiritual Warfare	05 Feb 2025	00:10:05
Greg Morse \| The miserable Christian is a billboard for Satan. If those who know God toil on, sorrowful and never rejoicing, God appears a very poor treasure indeed.
	When This Season Ends: How to Let Good Things Go	02 Feb 2024	00:10:40
Scott Hubbard \| Many of us try to make the best parts of this life last forever. But God made our best seasons short to prepare us for a better season that will never end.
	Prayers of the Apocalypse	31 Jan 2024	00:12:47
Greg Morse \| The Bible tells us that the prayers of the saints will usher in the end of the world. What will those kinds of prayers be like, and how will they come true?
	Respectable Drunkenness: Subtle Ways to Numb a Soul	28 Jan 2024	00:10:54
Marshall Segal \| Many of us who never abuse alcohol still experience a kind of respectable drunkenness, an indulgence in something good that dulls our hearts to God.
	Start the Day Happy in God: The Lost Art of Bible Meditation	27 Jan 2024	00:14:54
David Mathis \| Getting our hearts happy in God can be hard work, but our Lord loves to meet us and warm us as we put away excuses and train our souls for true delight.
	What Makes a Woman Beautiful? A Guide for Young Men	24 Jan 2024	00:13:13
Scott Hubbard \| Men of the world may chase physical beauty no matter where it leads — to bed, to idols, to ruin. But beauty without discretion is a gold ring in a pig’s snout.
	The Joy of Being Left Behind: Releasing Children to Follow Jesus	20 Jan 2024	00:08:54
Jon Bloom \| When our children go far from home to follow Jesus, we have an opportunity for paradoxical joy. We can join the happy fellowship of the left behind.
	The Three Most Important Words in Prayer	17 Jan 2024	00:15:10
Marshall Segal \| Sometimes the last three words in our prayers — in Jesus’s name — slowly lose their weight and meaning. Here are six reasons to slow down and savor them.
	Put God’s Word to Work: Four Ways Pastors Use the Bible	16 Jan 2024	00:13:47
David Mathis \| Teaching is the pastors’ first and greatest calling, but it’s not the only way we put God’s word to work. Paul gives us four ways to use Scripture in Christian ministry.
	Why Not Me? The Quiet and Consuming Eye of Envy	13 Jan 2024	00:10:52
Greg Morse \| If we let envy have its way with us, the gifts we have fuel pride and the gifts we don’t breed bitterness. How can we train our eyes with grace?
	Heart-Deep Prayers: Why We Prioritize Spiritual Needs	07 Jan 2024	00:11:32
Scott Hubbard \| If the apostle Paul joined our prayer circles, we might be surprised how different his prayers seem. We often focus on circumstances, but he takes aim at the heart.
	Do You Fight for Joy?	02 Feb 2025	00:10:16
John Piper \| The enemies to our joy in God are many, but so are the weapons he has given for the fight — including his promise to help us prevail.
	Prayer: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic	06 Jan 2024	00:11:42
Marshall Segal \| His first cancer diagnosis sent Tim Keller on a quest to experience the awe and intimacy that God promises to those who pray. Twelve years later, he wrote the book on what he learned.
	His Voice First: A New Year’s Resolve and Prayer	01 Jan 2024	00:11:22
David Mathis \| Resolved: to put the voice of Jesus first in 2024 — first in preference, first in practice, and first in priority.
	Plan Like a Christian: Five Principles for a New Year	31 Dec 2023	00:12:18
Scott Hubbard \| If you want to plan in a way that honors God, plan like a mortal. Plan like a child. Plan like a worshiper. Plan like a dreamer. Plan like a sub-planner.
	Heart of My Own Heart: Why I Love ‘Be Thou My Vision’	30 Dec 2023	00:13:07
Jon Bloom \| Why do millions love to sing “Be Thou My Vision,” a hymn crafted from the words of an unknown poet? Because the lyrics paint the burning heart of a truly Christian life.
	Reality Written in Cursive: The Power of Christian Wordcraft	27 Dec 2023	00:12:23
Greg Morse \| While fewer today may realize it, mankind was born for poetry. We were made to find and savor the right words for unspeakable realities.
	God Unveils His Majesty: The Quiet Surprise of Christmas Day	25 Dec 2023	00:11:10
David Mathis \| Majesty himself came at Christmas — but with no majesty that humans yet could see. But the one who came without splendor would soon come into unsurpassed majesty as the risen and reigning Messiah.
	Christmas Like a Christian: Five Glories the World Belittles	24 Dec 2023	00:15:19
Marshall Segal \| As you open your homes and presents this Christmas, make the feast as Christian as possible. Fix your eyes on the Son who came, and will come again.
	Your Best Days Are Ahead: Confronting the Lies of Nostalgia	23 Dec 2023	00:12:13
Scott Hubbard \| Past joys now gone can rob us of present happiness. But the wise of heart will thank God for what was, aching for what is still yet to come.
	Ghosts of Christmas: What the Damned Might Say	16 Dec 2023	00:13:34
Greg Morse \| If the spirits of the damned could visit our Christmas feasts and festive trees, what might they say of our holiday? A story from the Gospels gives us an idea.
	Trials Are Gardens for Lies: How Thankfulness Guards Us Against Satan	13 Dec 2023	00:12:10
Marshall Segal \| God is the giver of every good thing you might lose, and he is the giver of every good thing you might crave. That makes gratitude a great weapon against temptation.
	No One’s Born to Preach: The Myth and Truth of Pulpit ‘Gifting’	31 Jan 2025	00:12:10
David Mathis \| God may make believers in a moment, but he makes preachers over a lifetime. If you desire to preach, but doubt your present ability, envision the long arc, and seek to make progress over decades.
	Tangible Acts of Christmas: A Missing Ingredient in Evangelism	10 Dec 2023	00:07:00
Jon Bloom \| “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” What might it look like for us to actually show that kind of love to our neighbors this Christmas?
	When Your Heart Goes Dark: How to Seize Hope in Suffering	09 Dec 2023	00:13:26
Greg Morse \| “This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope.” In the darkness of suffering, light often dawns when we pause, remember, and call to mind our Lord.
	The Curious History of Christmas	06 Dec 2023	00:15:33
Scott Hubbard \| The history of Christmas is darker and more unruly than you might think, but we still have more reasons than ever to celebrate the coming of our King.

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