John 10:27–28 | A Moment of Steadfast Hope

Jen Oshman is the author of Welcome, part of the Love Your Church Series (TGBC in partnership with Acts29). Jen has also written Cultural Counterfeits (Crossway) and Enough About Me (Crossway). She is a wife and mom to four daughters and served as a missionary for almost two decades on three continents. She lives in Colorado, where she encourages her church-planting husband at Redemption Parker.

Courtney Doctor (MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary) serves as director of women’s initiatives for The Gospel Coalition. She’s a Bible teacher and author of several Bible studies including From Garden to Glory: A Bible Study on the Bible’s Story, Steadfast: A Devotional Bible Study on the Book of James, and In View of God’s Mercies: The Gift of the Gospel in Romans. Courtney and her husband, Craig, have four children, three children-in-law, and five beautiful grandchildren. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Melissa Kruger serves as vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, In All Things: A Nine Week Devotional Bible Study on Unshakeable Joy, Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, and Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know. Her husband, Mike, is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary, and they have three children. She writes at Wits End, hosted by The Gospel Coalition. You can follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.