TOPIC INDEXPractical Theology (24)

  1. The Religion of the Sacred Cow

    book
    05/28/21
    24 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    If you and I were to examine our own lives, we’d likely have to admit that we are frequent disciples of Jeroboam’s “bootleg religion.”

  2. Now I lay me down to sleep

    book
    05/15/21
    18 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    What is it, though, that makes bedtime so fraught with anxiety?

  3. What to do When Life Goes to Pieces

    book
    02/22/21
    19 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    The Bible is a book for the desperate. That is its target audience. Recognizing our desperation readies us to hear the consolation that only God’s Word can offer.

  4. What Sin and Death Cannot Do

    book
    08/04/20
    10 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    There is a power that is stronger and mightier than the power of separation in death. And that power is the power of God’s love for you and me.

  5. All of Divinity in the Limits of Humanity

    book
    06/24/20
    11 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    God is not an impassive monster who is unfamiliar with our horrendous ailments. Rather, in Christ, God familiarizes himself with our suffering and becomes particularly attuned to the fragility of fallen humanity.

  6. Safe and Sound in the Shadow of the Almighty

    book
    05/05/20
    16 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    Jesus’s followers aren’t ostriches who bury their heads in the sand. That’s not helpful or hopeful for anyone. Resting from life’s trials and troubles comes in the remembrance of the One who is with you in the middle of all of them.

  7. The Lord Our Protector

    book
    04/22/20
    16 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    When we are invited to cast all our cares on God's shoulders, he means all of them — every single one of them.

  8. Salvation in the Soot of Sin

    book
    01/16/20
    7 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    Have you ever felt haunted by fear, shame, and guilt? Have you ever worried that Jesus couldn't love you anymore? I have.

  9. On the Definitive Assurance of Jesus’s Advocacy

    book
    01/06/20
    11 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    Having the assurance that perfect righteousness has already been gifted to you is, perhaps, the leading spiritual scuffle in which every believer is entangled.

  10. A Theology of Grief & Death

    book
    10/03/19
    19 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    It is true that no one ever grieves in the same way. We are all different in personality and chemical makeup. But what is the same, is that everyone, at some point, grieves.

  11. Faith, Depression, & Clinging to the Rumor of Grace

    book
    09/24/19
    14 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    Whatever theoretical or conceptual ideas to which we surrender in despair, the Christian faith offers something wholly different. It offers a person.

  12. The Shameless Nature of God’s Grace

    book
    07/10/18
    11 mins
    By Bradley Gray
    To be sure, the devil has an incredible arsenal of assaults with which he can waylay believers into ineptitude and ineffectiveness.