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Browse select Tabletalk articles and columns exploring themes and topics across a spectrum of relevant issues.

  • Christmas According to the Apostle Paul - Gal 4:4-5 (Part 3 of 3) by R. Fowler White

    In the two previous installment in our series on Gal 4:4-5, we have learned four features of the Apostle’s answer to the question, what Child is this who was born at Christmas? We have focused on the Child as the …Read More

  • Christmas According to the Apostle Paul - Gal 4:4-5 (Part 1 of 3) by R. Fowler White

    One of the most beloved carols that Christians sing during the Christmas season is that of William C. Dix, What Child is This? As few other carols do, the lyrics of this selection prompt us to contemplate the identity, the …Read More

  • Christmas According to the Angels (Part 2 of 3) by R. Fowler White

    In our first installment in this series, we learned that the Gospel birth announcements of the angels brought “good news of great joy” to those humbled by sin, suffering, and death. In this our second installment, we focus on two …Read More

  • Christmas According to the Angels (Part 3 of 3) by R. Fowler White

    In this final part of our three-part series on Christmas according to the Angels, we contemplate the truth that the birth announcements of the angels celebrated “glory to God” and “peace for man.” Consider first that the angels celebrated “glory …Read More

  • Christmas According to the Angels (Part 1 of 3) by R. Fowler White

    Other than the Holy Spirit, they are the most pivotal players in the drama that we know as the Christmas story; they are the most pivotal players in the accounts God gave us about the birth of Jesus our Lord. …Read More

  • Marley and His Message to Scrooge by R.C. Sproul

    Bah! Humbug!” These two words are instantly associated with Charles Dickens’ immortal fictional anti-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was the prototype of the Grinch who stole Christmas, the paradigm of all men cynical. We all recognize that Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean …Read More

  • Bringing Christ Into the Problem by Gene Edward Veith

    Charles Darwin finally gave up his belief in God not because he discovered evidence for evolution by natural selection (a theory he developed some years earlier) but because of his anguish at the death of his ten-year-old daughter. When he …Read More

  • His Glory Is Our Story by John Sartelle

    “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). I love being on a high mountain, on a …Read More

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