Articles

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

  • Holy Grief by Chris Donato

    In the coming days, we will see a lot of what Scripture has to say about God’s holiness. We will also see how His holiness informs both His love and His wrath. No doubt, too, we will recognize that God …Read More

  • The Problem of Pain by R.C. Sproul

    The problem of evil has been defined as the Achilles’ heel of the Christian faith. For centuries people have wrestled with the conundrum, how a good and loving God could allow evil and pain to be so prevalent in His …Read More

  • The Potter’s Freedom by E. Calvin Beisner

    Of all the challenges to the Christian faith, the most powerful has been the “problem of evil” — the alleged inconsistency of believing in the God of Scripture while recognizing the occurrence of evil. Why would a good God permit …Read More

  • Praying with the Patriarchs by Derek Thomas

    Does God take risks? The question is not as silly as it sounds, and in present-day discussions regarding what is called “open theism,” it is the pertinent question to ask. But let’s ask the question again, from a different perspective. …Read More

  • Reverent Conduct by Mark Dever

    I remember showing up to teach a Sunday school class in New England only to find everyone already there — and they had been there for an hour! Their clocks had all sprung forward an hour; I had forgotten to …Read More

  • The Lord of Light and Love by Chris Donato

    What is God? One of the most common answers today is, “God is love,” evoking images of a grandfatherly, cuddly type. The problem here is not the phrase itself but the meaning we attach to the word love. According to …Read More

  • A Conspiracy of Goodness by William Edgar

    There is a small village in the center of France with a unique history. In the midst of World War II, the country was partly occupied and partly “free,” meaning the French government, headquartered at Vichy, led by Maréchal Pétain, …Read More

  • Future Living by John Sartelle

    “You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away … and lose your own stability” (2 Peter 3:17). This morning I was looking at a stock that has really “taken off.” I thought, “If only …Read More

  • Inexplicable Love by John Sartelle

    “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). The fish symbol worn as a lapel pin or displayed as a bumper sticker — a gold cross worn as …Read More

  • Says Who? by R.C. Sproul Jr.

    It is a rather tedious and tiresome thing to pull the legs out from under our national confession. Our country’s creed is not just internally inconsistent, nor is it just incomprehensible, it is both these things. That is, it does …Read More

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