Blake Long

What is prayer? This is a question worth asking if we desire to have genuine and beneficial communion with God. “Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God,” Timothy Keller wrote in his book on prayer. “We must know the awe of praising his glory, the intimacy of finding his…

Some research estimates that there are over 4,000 different religions. And, as many know, there are five major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. But with all these different religions—from the mystical beliefs of Hinduism to to the doctrines of Islam—comes a different way of thinking. There might…

Friends, it has been another great year for my blog, Theology & Life! God has been gracious to bring more visitors to my site. Hopefully those people have been impacted for the better by my writing. This year my blog had a total viewership of a little over 23,400! Though…

For all my life I was never one to enjoy writing. And yet, when the Lord saved me, he gave me the desire to read. The more I read, the more I felt the itch to write my own content.  Here I am, and I’ve been writing seriously since 2018–now…

The closeness of Jesus is a beautiful, heart-calming reality. And yet it’s the one thing we neglect to believe when times get rough. As He said in the Great Commission, Jesus is with us until the end of the age (Matthew 28:20). What are you currently going through? Has a…

I’m a tad forgetful about important things (somewhere my wife is saying, “A tad?!”). And on too many occasions, I “forget,” per se, the most important thing: Jesus. I go throughout my day not giving much thought to Him. My work day becomes busy, my thoughts are consumed with other…

Our faith in Jesus Christ holds no value if we take away in Jesus Christ. At that point, “faith” is no longer faith, but blind wishful thinking about nothing. But, of course, that’s not the reality of Christianity. Our faith rests in the objective, perfect, atoning work of Jesus Christ.…

Ten years ago God saved me. What a mind boggling sentence. This blog is my personal testimony of the goodness and lovingkindness of Jesus in my life; but it’s also meant to encourage you, fellow believer. God can save anyone. He can save the serial adulterer, the hypocritical religious zealot,…

There is room for disagreement within the body of Christ. For the church to function biblically, we must have grace for those who don’t have the same views on secondary or tertiary issues. This refers to what is called “theological triage,” popularized by an article by Albert Mohler. Gavin Ortlund,…