David Platt, Francis Chan, Shane Claiborne, and now Kyle Idleman are dominating the Christian best-seller lists by attacking our comfortable Christianity. But is 'radical faith' enough?

We usually think it's our job. Think twice.

Observers weigh in.

Kevin DeYoung responds to Mark Galli and our other reviewers.

The self-conscious pursuit of holiness leaves us despairing over (inevitable) failures or gloating pridefully over (illusory) successes.

Can Kevin DeYoung's message reach people outside his particular Christian subculture?

Holiness is God's gift to redeemed Christians, but we need to strive for it all the same.

Kevin DeYoung uncovers a troubling erosion of personal evangelical piety, but what about the public implications of godly living?

Incarnational grace in the Pastoral Epistles.

The blessings—and danger—of divine proximity.

The same holy hands that punish the wicked pull the righteous to safety.

It's time to put aside this abused "badge of honor."

Why some people may want to abandon New Year's resolutions as soon as possible.

The gospel is for Christians too.

Returning the growing fields and kitchen table to God.

It may be impossible not to "demean God" since he mixed it up with sinners.

Why God's law is good news.

But I'd secretly rather have a God who is a non-anxious presence.

According to John Wesley, that's the church's greatest task.

N.T. Wright says character matters, but thinks the Reformers disagreed.

Most Americans—including Scripture-loving evangelicals—cannot name the disciples, the Ten Commandments, or the first book of the Bible. But that's not our biggest biblical illiteracy problem.

How biblical faith can help us discover who we are in an age of self obsession.

Why neither worm theology nor worth theology will do.

If we are completely saved from our sins through the Cross, what's the point of the empty tomb?

In my ministry of racial reconciliation, I had to move from a culture of effort to a culture of grace.

Why the spiritually mature don't talk about how God has made them spiritually mature.

Why it's crucial to recognize how little we're being transformed.

Sometimes in order to see God, we have to learn to not know him.

Lessons learned between the couch and a 10k race.

Why change is not our most important product.

What we really have to offer the world.

Pastors tell how the justification debate has changed their ministry.

Two of the world's most prominent pastor-theologians on justification—and what difference it makes.

Three priorities for the next 30 years.

Why the grocery store is a holy place.

One church's experiment in living the most arcane book of the Bible.

The desert fathers and mothers would know instantly why our gospel is too small.

Gertrude the Great suggests an inverse relationship between comfort and holiness in the meaty devotional, A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics.

Laughter is serious business.

The bodily resurrection is the good news of the gospel—and thus our social and political mandate.