Garrett Kell is a pastor at Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Garrett and his wife, Carrie, have six children. Many people know Kell from his involvement with 9Marks and previous connections to Capitol Hill Baptist Church with cameos at TGC and T4G. If you know of Garrett, you most likely know him as the pastor once hooked on porn. Continue Reading →
Read More
The publication of The Gospel for Disordered Lives marks a decisive moment in the biblical counseling movement, as it is the first introductory textbook for biblical counseling. In this textbook, three biblical counseling scholars provide a framework for the theory and practice of biblical counseling. Continue Reading →
Read More
It was a story that sounded like any other—a young woman falls in love, elopes, and runs off to start a new life with her husband. In the process of forming this new family unit, the woman’s previous family lost contact with their daughter and sister for a few years. Two years later, that silence was broken with the startling cry of emergency—this sister and daughter was in the hospital with a ruptured spleen. The story came out that the young couple had been mountain biking together, and the young woman had fallen down a hill. Except that wasn’t the story. Continue Reading →
Read More
“What did you expect?” An unfortunate dynamic occurs in many relationships—especially in dating, engagement, and marriage: the dynamic of expectations. Expectations are often unspoken assumptions and unconscious desires, hopes, and dreams concerning others and circumstances in the future. It is hard for a recently engaged couple to avoid dreaming about the future and begin imagining life after marriage. But here is the difficulty about expectations—you do not know you have them until they are broken or not fulfilled. Continue Reading →
Read More
“Who is Jesus?” There are many ways to approach this question. You may begin to think about the various indicative statements scattered throughout Scripture concerning Jesus Christ. He is the Word, the Light of the World, the Bread of Life, the Good Shepherd, the Alpha and the Omega. Some may instinctively begin to explore His nature as fully God and fully man and His relations within the Trinity. Others may answer this question by considering what we learn about Him through His works—His incarnation, active obedience, substitutionary atonement, resurrection, ascension, and continual intercession for His people. Dane C. Ortlund, chief publishing officer and Bible publisher at Crossway and elder at Naperville Presbyterian Church, seeks to reach the “heart” (quite literally) of this question in his latest work, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers. Continue Reading →
Read More