Current Theme | February 2026

The God Who is There: Contemplating the Doctrine of God

What is the first thing you think of when you hear “God”? Decades ago theologian Francis Schaeffer wrote The God Who is There, where he rightly pointed out that God is a personal and infinite Being who resolves the deepest issues that haunt us. Sadly, many of us fail to give God the honor that is due to him because we are ignorant of his majestic Being and attributes—when is the last time you sang about God’s aseity or impassability? Join us this month to consider who our Triune God reveals himself to be so that we can render him supreme glory.

Table of Contents

Protestors are Coming to Your Church Are You Ready? Twenty-Five Action Steps Before the Day Comes

By Charles Lyons • Concise Article • February 3
What will you do when protestors show up at your church? That day's happening sooner than you realize.

5.08 Charles Lyons, Jordan Howe, Trent Hunter, & David Schrock • Interview • “Protestors are Coming to Your Church Are You Ready? Twenty-Five Action Steps Before the Day Comes”

By Charles Lyons, Jordan Howe, David Schrock, & Trent Hunter • Interview • February 4th, 2026
Listen in as David Schrock & Trent Hunter interview Charles Lyons and Jordan Howe on their respective articles for Christ Over All and Center for Baptist Leadership

God is Trinity

By Robert Letham • Concise Article • February 5
What does the Great Commission and the proper place of God's worship have to do with the Trinity?

The Sovereignty of God

By Jeremy M. Kimble• Concise Article • February 7
What does it mean that God is sovereign, how does this relate to other attributes of God? What are misunderstandings of God's sovereignty, and why does it all matter?

Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God

By Kyle D. Claunch • Longform Essay • February 9
Who is God and what is he like? Take off your sandals and follow the light as we seek to comprehend the incomprehensible!

5.09 Kyle Claunch • Reading • “Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God”

By Charles Lyons, Jordan Howe, David Schrock, & Trent Hunter • Interview • February 4th, 2026
Who is God and what is he like? Take off your sandals and follow the light as we seek to comprehend the incomprehensible!

How Modern Culture Has Distorted the Love of God

By Gerald Bray • Concise Article • February 11
God is Love. But what does that mean in a culture that defines love merely as tolerance?

“Who Has Been His Counselor?”: The Omniscience of God

By Michael Pereira • Concise Article • February 12
God's knowledge is more vast, more comprehensive, and more deep than you can ever imagine.

God Is Himself: Why God Is More Than His Attributes

By Knox Brown • Concise Article • February 13
God is so much greater than us, that he can't be defined by any one attribute, or even the sum of them together. Instead, he defines himself as himself: I AM WHO I AM.

God’s Eternality

By Roberto Martinez • Concise Article • February 16
We strain our minds to comprehend that God is eternal before, during, and beyond time. He forever rules it and is not contained by it. Behold your God!

Inexpressible Joy, Incomprehensible Peace, and Indescribable Beauty: The Blessedness of God

By Stefan Hartsell • Concise Article • February 18
Joy that never fades. Peace that never breaks. Beauty beyond imagination. These are all one attribute glorious of our God—and one glorious hope he promises us

5.10 Kyle Claunch, David Schrock, & Stephen Wellum • Interview • “Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God”

By Kyle Claunch, David Schrock & Stephen Wellum • Interview • February 18th, 2026
Listen in as David Schrock & Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his COA Longform Essay, "Axioms of Theology Proper: Guiding Lights for the Doctrine of God"

God’s Burning Affection: Impassibility & Divine Emotion

By Knox Brown • Concise Article • February 20
God loves—and hates—with an infinite burning affection. But does He have emotions that change? Behold the awesome and terrible wonder of our God!

Reflections on the Retrieval of Classical Theism in Evangelical Theology

By Stephen J. Wellum • Longform Essay • February 23
Sometimes an old compass is all you need to make it back home, and so it is with the church's Nicene doctrine of God.

Upcoming

God’s Righteousness is More than Faithfulness

By Ardel Caneday • Concise Article

His Righteousness Endures Forever: Why Hell is Eternal

By Chris Bolt • Concise Article

God is Glorious

By Steve Wellum • Concise Article