How does the death of Christ shape Christianity? This article explains three ways in which Christ's death affects your Christian life.

What are the most important words you should know for your Christian life? The article describes the three most important words you should know: guilt, grace, and gratitude.

Philippians 2:12-13 gives a biblical understanding of the Christian life and sanctification. It explains the relationship between God's active work and the believer's role and action.

One of the hindrances to living the Christian life is basing faithfulness and contentment on ideal circumstances. This approach to the Christian life is utopian spirituality: it denies Christ and accepts the lies of Satan. This article shows four ways in which this happens.

Christianity is not a Sunday-only issue. It is a daily matter. This article gives eight practical things to do in your daily Christian life.

What is the most crippling thing in the Christian life? It is when we still see our identity in relation to indwelling sin. Remaining sin does not define us.

The Christian is in the world but not of the world. What does this mean for the Christian life? It means being a witness, embracing compassion, and facing persecution.

Does your faith shape your daily life, or is your Christian life separated from your daily life? This article points to five signs that reveal whether or not your faith is shaping your daily life.

When God accomplishes radical transformation in us, he does not eliminate any part of what makes us human. Instead, he calls us to live the Christian life with all our human faculties. This article addresses the comments that some make that when it comes to our sanctification, we are completely passive. It shows how Christlikeness requires effort.

John Calvin taught that the Christian life is rooted in our union with Christ, the inseparable link of faith and the Word, the need for daily repentance, and self-denial.

To understand the reason for the incarnation of Christ, one must understand the holiness of God. Both the holiness of God and the incarnation of Christ must shape how Christians live in the city. The article draws five implications of the incarnation for the Christian life.

What are the lies that hinder you from living the Christian life, witnessing, and evangelism? This article shows from John Calvin that there are three lies: self, society, and Satan.

What do you do when dullness characterizes your walk with the Lord? This article answers, based on Jonathan Edwards' resolution: identify the cause and see how sin causes dullness, pursue repentance, and seek your pleasure in God in your Christian life.

Why is Christianity all of grace? Because the gospel of the grace of God is not just for the beginning of the Christian life, but for the whole of it.

What motivates Christian living? It is the fear of God, which is not a slavish fear but a filial affection. The article explains how this works in the Christian life.

What ought to characterize the Christian life? This article indicates the unity of vision for a Christian life in Romans 12:9-21, Philippians 4:2-9, and 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24. This unity of vision helps us see the correspondence between Romans 1:18-32 and Romans 12:1-2 and the unity of Romans 12–13 as a whole.

What would you say the Christian life is all about? Spiritual disciplines? Growing in knowledge? This article suggests the answer is far simpler: prayer, proclamation, and people.

What is the relation of justification by faith to justice? Otto argues that it was for the purpose of establishing justice that Jesus] sacrificed himself. The [[work of Christ was and is focused on the justice of God. This has tremendous implications for the Christian life.

Adoption as sons is an important motif and theme in the letters of Paul (Romans 8:15, 23, Romans 9:4, Galatians 4:5, and Ephesians 1:5). In this article Burke wants to explore the relationship between the Holy Spirit and adoption in Romans 8. The relevance and importance of adoption for the Christian life are also indicated. 

Jesus Christ described the Christian life as walking the narrow road and entering through the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13-14). What makes this path narrow and how can Christians travel it?

Learning to preach the gospel to yourself is important for every Christian. It is important for your Christian life and pursuing holiness.

Complacency has no room in the Christian life. Why? This article explains the danger of spiritual drafting.

"I do not care what people say. What matters is what God says." Have you uttered such words? Such words are not the complete truth. This article shows that the Christian life is lived for the approval of God and of men.

Athletes become successful through self-control. It is this image of a race that Paul uses to explain the Christian life in 1 Corinthians 9:25. The article explains how the Christian life is similar to the race.

Doctrine is important for equipping the believer to live a life pleasing to God. This article explains the need to know doctrine and the relationship of doctrine to the Christian life.

Watchfulness is one crucial aspect in the Christian life. It is essential for fighting the world, flesh, and devil. This article discusses the need to maintain your vigilance, and the defenses God provides for this purpose.

Why is being God-centred essential to the Christian life? It matters because of the gospel, prayer, Bible reading and church community.

The gospel is at the heart of the Christian life. This article argues that the gospel should be an everyday thing. It discusses the joy of the gospel, the change the gospel brings, the identity it creates, and the love of the Father in the gospel.

To John Calvin, piety consisted of reverence for God motivated by love and rooted in a true knowledge of God. This article shows how Calvin developed this understanding of piety for the Christian life. Then it shows the implications for the church today.

The Roman and Reformed tradition produced two different traditions on the Christian life. This article looks at these two tradition through the eyes of Francis de Sales, Richard Baxter, and John Owen. Here focus is on their view of faith and love.

The Roman and Reformed tradition produced two different traditions on the Christian life. This article looks at these two traditions through the eyes of Francis de Sales, Richard Baxter, and John Owen. Here focus is on their view of man and sin.

The church is paralyzed when it fails to see the relationship between knowing, feeling, and doing. This article shows the relationship between doctrine, piety, and reform. It shows that to lose one is to lose all, which impoverishes the Christian life.

The only way to avoid the trap of self-righteousness is to always remember that the entirety of the Christian life is that of repentance. This article will explain.

This article discusses what true sanctification looks like. The gospel is not only essential at the beginning of the Christian life. It is essential for the whole of the Christian life. Failure to understand this will lead to a works-based approach to the Christian life.

The only way to not follow in the footsteps of Judas is by remaining in Christ. John 15 shows that a relationship with Christ and bearing the fruit of the Spirit is essential to the Christian life.

Living the Christian life should be based on the revealed will of God, not His secret or eternal will. God's revealed will can be known through His word. This article is a warning against trying to live one's life based on God's secret will.

One mark of the Christian life is loving God's people. Pietism has an emphasis on personal devotion, and its claim that there is no true church undermines this mark of being a Christian.

In Hebrews 12:1-3 the Christian life is compared to a race. The Christian life is marked by endurance and fighting against sin, and its goal is Christ.

Secret sins and self-deception are to a Christian what canker is to a tree. Through self-examination and the work of the Spirit, we can avoid spiritual disaster in our Christian life.

Looking at Galatians 5:18-21, this article shows that a Christian life is a life which is led by the Spirit. Being led by the Spirit presupposes regeneration, and it involves fighting the flesh and living under the truth of the gospel.

This article shows that we need both the active obedience and passive obedience of Christ for our salvation. Christians are also called to obey God actively and passively. We need God's help in order to live a Christian life and do His will.

This is an encouragement to Christians to live out their Christian life in obedience to the call of Christ to let our light shine.

The Lord's prayer should not only be used as words, but should be translated into the Christian life. This article shows how the Lord's prayer can be used to shape the life of the Christian.

Holiness is important for the Christian life because it is God's will that we should be holy. Holiness is the result of Christ and the Holy Sprit's work, is the fruit of true faith and love, is a form of witnessing for Christ, and provides comfort and prepares the believer for heaven.

The picture of the Christian life painted by the New Testament is rooted in union with Christ. This article shows how such union and conformity to Christ is reflected in individuals' vocation, serving as a paradigm to thinking about Christian ethics in the workplace.

The picture of the Christian life painted by the New Testament is rooted in union with Christ. The believer is united to Christ by sharing in His death and resurrection. Christian ethics should be shaped by this understanding of the Christian life. 

The picture of the Christian life painted by the New Testament is rooted in union with Christ. This article shows that this understanding must serve as a paradigm for Christian ethics. The call to imitate Christ is the foundation of a biblical understanding of the Christian life.

This article provides an outline of the book Confessing Christ by Calvin Knox Cummings, including some notes on the Bible, Christ, repentance, faith, and the Christian life.

The Christian life is a battle, in battle you must be armed. This reflection on 1 Peter 4:1 encourages us to arm ourselves with the thought that we hvae died to sin.