Scott Slayton

The narrative of Hannah’s pain in 1 Samuel 1 reminds us that the Lord is near to us when we walk through difficulty and suffering.

How embracing boredom can help you develop your ability to concentrate and deepen your spiritual life.

Four ways that bivocational pastors can increase their effectiveness in sermon preparation.

My favorite quotes from Drew Dyck’s book, Your Future Self Will Thank You.

When you preach a funeral sermon, there is one important truth that you cannot forget to talk about.

Four reasons why I stopped using a digital version of the Bible for my daily reading and returned to reading the Bible on paper.

How Proverbs 18:17 helps Christians to examine our own confirmation bias.

The best quotes from Tim Keller’s latest book, The Prodigal Prophet.

Four ways that Christians harm their witness through their behavior on social media.

Eight suggestions for how pastors can stay mentally and emotionally healthy when they encounter a dark night of the soul.

I recently read someone who complained that Christians never stop speaking about Jesus. Here are three reasons why we won’t.

The twenty best quotes from Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods.

Many Christians get discouraged when they try to read Genesis, but here are four reasons why it is worth the effort.

Three questions we should ask ourselves before we speak out about the latest controversy.

Four ways you can recover your concentration so that you can more profitably read the Bible.

Four ways that you can stay informed about the world around you without constant scrolling through Twitter or keeping the news on in the background all day.

Two important lessons that Christians can learn from Wendell Berry's Port William novels.

20 great quotes from Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You.

How to preach expository sermons from the book of Proverbs.

The 20 best quotes from Tim Keller’s “Hidden Christmas.”