The Christian life as an ambassador of the Gospel comes down to this: talk to God about people and talk to people about God.

This text on family and household dynamics is often viewed today as traditional and even regressive; but in the time that it was written, it was liberating and empowering. The principles here continue to be life-giving when properly understood.

Christian ethics is not simply a matter of "dos" and "don'ts." We need transformed hearts that automatically produce the kinds of actions and words that reflect Jesus. How do we get that?

Even as professing Jesus-followers, it's all too easy to go back and play around with sins that bring the wrath of God. How do we put these things off? How do we reckon ourselves dead to them? How do we stand firm in the victory and freedom Christ has won for us?

Between our deliverance from bondage and our possession of the promises of God, there is usually a wilderness. An experience of waiting and suffering, where our resources are not sufficient. How do we find God's hope and purpose in times like these?

We do what we do because we think what we think. And the only way to ultimately fix our thinking is by fixing our minds on Christ. Thankfully, our union with Christ provides all the resources that we need -- past, present, and future.

Religion, at best, is merely a shadow of the substance that's found in Christ alone. By recognizing this, you can avoid the dangerous pitfalls that are inherent in making your religion the main thing.

Your philosophies - your chosen and accepted ways of thinking - will either lead you to emptiness and enslavement or to freedom and fulfillment in Christ. Learn how the upside-down victory of Christ's death on a Cross is the key to your own victory in him.

We often overcomplicate the Christian life by making it about literally hundreds of rules and principles to live by. Here's a spiritual life hack: Just do the next right thing to acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Many of the so-called "mystery religions" intentionally kept secrets, which were supposedly the key to a relationship with the divine or eternal life. The Gospel openly declares that the mystery is Christ himself, our hope of glory.