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Garrett Kell

Garrett Kell is the author of Pure in Heart: Sexual Sin and the Promises of God. He also serves as pastor of Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. He is married to Carrie and they have six children.

The Porn Talk: Nine Ways Parents Can Lead Children

The Porn Talk

Nine Ways Parents Can Lead Children

If your children were exposed to pornography in the next year, would they know what to do? Many parents are lost for how to prepare children for something nearly every child experiences at some point.

Counting Sheep: A Case for Regenerate Church Membership

Counting Sheep

A Case for Regenerate Church Membership

The membership roll is one of the most important documents in a healthy, biblical church aiming to honor Christ.

The Pastor’s Progress: Why I Keep Reading John Bunyan

The Pastor’s Progress

Why I Keep Reading John Bunyan

Pilgrim’s Progress may be the most beloved book in the English language, outside of the Bible. Hear why one pastor reads through it every year.

Pornography and Church Discipline

Pornography and Church Discipline

One of the most prevalent sins for men in the church today is pornography. Is this form of lust deserving of church discipline?

Help Someone Home to Heaven: How to Walk with the Wayward

Help Someone Home to Heaven

How to Walk with the Wayward

Who are the struggling Christians in your life who are tempted, weary, and tried? What if God means for you to help them get home?

Tempted and Unarmed: Why We Need the Armor of God

Tempted and Unarmed

Why We Need the Armor of God

Spiritual warfare can be dramatic, but it most often takes place in the mundane details of our lives.

You Will Regret Giving In: What to Do When Tempted

You Will Regret Giving In

What to Do When Tempted

As long as we are in this world, we will not escape temptations to sin. But by God’s grace, and with the help of others, we can learn to kill our sin.

Can We Sin in Our Sleep? What to Do with Troubling Dreams

Can We Sin in Our Sleep?

What to Do with Troubling Dreams

When we wake up and realize we have been dreaming about something sinful, how should we respond?

Kill Whatever Kills Your Love for God

Kill Whatever Kills Your Love for God

Love for God and sin cannot coexist. Kill your love for sin, or sin will kill your love for God.

What God Might Do with Satan’s Arrows: The Legacy of John Chau (1991–2018)

What God Might Do with Satan’s Arrows

The Legacy of John Chau (1991–2018)

The arrows that took John Chau’s life may be the seed that brings generations of Sentinelese people to Jesus.

Lord, Help Me See Their Destiny: Four Prayers for Personal Evangelism

Lord, Help Me See Their Destiny

Four Prayers for Personal Evangelism

If God doesn’t give us the courage, if he doesn’t give us an opportunity, if he doesn’t give life to our words, we will evangelize in vain.

If They Fell, So Can You: How Sin Seduced the Strongest, Wisest, and Godliest

If They Fell, So Can You

How Sin Seduced the Strongest, Wisest, and Godliest

Whether we are a pastor, president, or housewife, we are all in danger of being wooed, outwitted, and overpowered by sin.

Good Lovemaking Is About God

Good Lovemaking Is About God

God designed sex to be best enjoyed when it is based on something other than mere appearance and performance.

It’s a Wonderful Time to Be Christian

It’s a Wonderful Time to Be Christian

Five Reasons for Optimism in America

Many in America bemoan the rising political, racial, and religious tensions, but here are five reasons it’s a wonderful time to be a Christian.

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