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Greater: When a Life Is Measured by More Than Its Length
I had never heard of Brandon Burlsworth. I didn’t know his story. I didn’t know what he accomplished at Arkansas. And, perhaps most importantly, I didn’t know how his story ended. I only learned his name because my wife and I didn’t want to go home yet. We were out on a date one evening.…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XVI
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 16 — John Rogers: The First Flame of Bloody Mary Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. Every persecution has a beginning. Someone becomes the example. The first warning. The first body. The first…
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When the Mother Kills the Children, Feminism Still Finds a Man to Blame
Three children are dead. Their mother killed them. And somehow, people have found a way to blame their father. If you want to understand how thoroughly feminist ideology has distorted the way our culture thinks about men, women, marriage, motherhood, responsibility, and victimhood, look no further than the public reaction surrounding the trial of Lindsay…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XV
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 15 — Anne Askew: The Woman They Could Not Silence Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. History often remembers kings. It remembers generals. It remembers famous preachers and celebrated theologians. But every so…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XIV
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 14 — John Bradford: The Man Who Knew His Own Heart Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. Few sayings have survived the centuries as well as these words: “There, but for the grace…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XIII
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 13 — John Hooper: The Fire That Would Not Die Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are deaths that happen quickly. And there are deaths that linger. Most of us pray that,…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XII
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 12 — Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley: The Fire That Lit England Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are moments in history when a single sentence outlives an empire. A king may…
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The Folly of the Alpha Male
One of the defining characteristics of every age is its tendency to produce counterfeit versions of God’s design. Whenever a culture rejects the Creator, it does not cease believing in ideals altogether; it simply constructs new ones. The result is not the absence of truth but the replacement of truth with imitation. This pattern is…
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The Foolishness of White Knighting
There is a peculiar form of cowardice that has become respectable in the modern West. It does not present itself as fear. It presents itself as compassion, enlightenment, and moral sensitivity. It speaks the language of equality while practicing partiality. It claims to defend women, but often does so by abandoning truth, surrendering masculine responsibility,…
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The Blood Beneath the Church XI
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 11 — Thomas Cranmer: The Hand That Burned First Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are few things more painful than failure. Not failure forced upon us. Failure chosen by us. The…
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The Blood Beneath the Church X
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 10 — Sebastian: The Soldier Who Could Not Be Silenced Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is an old saying: “You can kill the messenger, but you cannot kill the message.” The…
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The Blood Beneath the Church IX
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 9 — Alban: Britain’s First Martyr Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is something remarkable about a man who dies for a faith he had only just embraced. Not after decades of…
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250 Years of Providence: America, Liberty, and the Christian Foundation Beneath It
Tomorrow, America marks 250 years as a nation. Two and a half centuries have passed since fifty-six men affixed their names to the United States Declaration of Independence and declared before the world that these colonies were, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. Two hundred and fifty years. That is a…
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The Blood Beneath the Church VIII
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 8 — Cyprian of Carthage: The Bishop Who Would Not Bow Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are times when the Church needs shepherds who know how to suffer. Not performers. Not…
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An Open Letter to My Dad for Father’s Day
I debated whether to share this publicly. Ultimately, I decided to do so because I know I am not alone. Many of us love fathers who have taught us much about life, yet remain strangers to saving faith in Christ. This is my open letter to my dad on Father’s Day. Dad, This Father’s Day…
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The Blood Beneath the Church VII
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 7 — Blandina: The Slave Girl Rome Could Not Break Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. Rome understood power. It understood armies. It understood law. It understood fear. It understood public spectacle. What…
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The Blood Beneath the Church VI
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 6 — Justin Martyr: The Philosopher Who Found the Truth Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is a lie that has survived every generation. It whispers that faith belongs to the weak.…
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The Blood Beneath the Church V
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 5 — Ignatius: The Man Who Longed for Lions Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is a kind of Christianity the modern world cannot comprehend. A Christianity so convinced of the glory…
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The Blood Beneath the Church IV
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 4 — Perpetua and Felicity: Mothers in the Arena Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There is something about the courage of mothers that unsettles people. Strength in men is expected. Endurance in…
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Maybe This Really Is the Year
The thing about being a lifelong New York Knicks fan is that you almost become uncomfortable with success. Pain feels familiar.Hope feels dangerous. For decades, Knicks fans have lived somewhere between nostalgia and delusion — replaying old highlights, remembering old teams, convincing ourselves that maybe this group is different. But now? Now something feels real.…
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The Blood Beneath the Church III
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 3 — Polycarp: The Fire Could Not Consume Him Part of an ongoing 52-week Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives, deaths, convictions, and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. There are moments in church history that feel almost unreal. Moments so weighty, so drenched in conviction and…
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Dear Class of 2026…
There is something sobering about a graduation ceremony. The lights are bright. The gym is full. Families clap louder than they probably should. Cameras flash. Names are called. Tassels are moved from one side to the other. Everyone smiles because everyone knows this moment matters. And it does. But not because of the diploma. A…
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The Blood Beneath the Church II
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 2 — Stephen: The First Christian Martyr Part of an ongoing Thursday noon essay series exploring the lives and witness of Christian martyrs throughout church history. The first Christian martyr was not an apostle. It was not Peter.Not Paul.Not James. It was a servant. A man named Stephen. That…
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The Blood Beneath the Church
Why the Martyrs Still Matter Part 1 — The Church Was Not Built by Comfortable Men Beginning today, this new series will release every Thursday at noon as we walk through the lives, deaths, convictions, and enduring witness of the martyrs of the Christian faith. There is a strange kind of Christianity growing in the…
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John Calvin: A Comprehensive Biography (Warts and All)
Not a myth. Not a villain. A man used by God—brilliantly and imperfectly. Why Calvin Still Matters Few figures loom larger over the Reformation than John Calvin. To some, he’s a faithful expositor who helped recover the authority of Scripture and the centrality of God’s glory. To others, he’s a symbol of severity—rigid, domineering, even…
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