A couple months ago I wrote a meditation on how the gospel of Jesus Christ solves all our problems. I have continued thinking about this and trying to live it out, and along the way it seemed worthwhile to try to define "all our problems." I was driven to this by something both good and bad I found in the writings of some of those who talk about the gospel as the solution to all of our problems. Here and there I found lists of various human problems, the sinful thinking in th

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to apply the good news of Jesus Christ—a.k.a., the gospel—to one's life. A number of people have been writing and talking about this over the last decade, and they declare its value as high as anyone could. For example, Timothy Keller writes in an unpublished essay that "all our problems come from a failure to apply the gospel." That's quite a claim. "All our problems" are solved by the gospel? What does that mean? How can i