Author Archives: Ben Peays

Ben Peays is the executive director of The Gospel Coalition and a PhD candidate at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Great New Music of and for the Local Church
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Worship music has significantly improved in the past decade. But don't think of progress as improving on the lyrics of our treasured hymns. (Not much progress there.) Think of it more in terms of the ways we create and share music. No longer do we depend on the mercy of Christian labels and radio to [...]

Announcing New TGC Apps
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We hope these apps provide an easy way to find the latest and most popular content on the go---especially video

Partner with The Gospel Coalition
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As we approach the last couple weeks of this calendar year, many of us will be making decisions for year-end donations. As you know, now is the time when many non-profit organizations make an appeal for support. While this is never an easy thing to do, the reality is that year-end giving is what allows [...]

Download Audio, Video for Don Carson's 'The God Who Is There'
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The Gospel Coalition is pleased to announce free audio and HD video downloads are now available for Don Carson's 14-part overview of the Bible titled, "The God Who is There: Finding Your Place in God's Story." This evangelistic series was delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis in February 2009. Its goal is to explain [...]

Not Just Shoeboxes: Operation Christmas Child Focuses on Discipleship
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Today marks the beginning of National Collections Week for Operation Christmas Child (OCC)—the annual evangelistic project of Samaritan's Purse. Each year an estimated 75,000 churches participate in this program, which sends millions of shoeboxes worldwide to needy children in underdeveloped countries. Last year, more than 8 million children in more than 100 countries received a shoebox [...]

Year-End Giving For the Advance of the Gospel
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With deep gratitude to God and to the many people who have given to The Gospel Coalition over the years, we want to remind you about the year-end opportunity you have to help us continue to provide free gospel-centered resources for 2010. If you are interested in making a year-end financial contribution to The Gospel [...]

Welcome '10 Million Words'
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The Gospel Coalition is pleased to welcome 10 Million Words -- a new blog by Tim Challies. Over the next year Challies will read and review all of The New York Times bestsellers (nearly 200!). The aim of this project is to learn about American culture through the pages of the country’s best-selling books. We [...]

The Gospel Coalition 2011 National Conference
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It seems every week we get an inquiry about when our next national conference is---and we love this! We love it because it confirms what we sensed last April when we met for The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference, namely, that God is doing something significant through TGC to promote gospel-centered ministry for the next [...]

Getting Reacquainted With The Gospel Coalition
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