God’s gifts may take time, but they are tailor-made for you. Read more
God’s gifts may take time, but they are tailor-made for you. Read more
Which type of worship should you participate in? Read more
When does a group of believers become a ‘church’? Read more
Toxins work their way into the church seemingly without effort. Read more
Look beyond the Book of Revelation to know what is to come in the last days or end times. Read more
Making our most desperate prayers conditional is gut-wrenchingly counterintuitive; yet it serves our faith well. Read more
Jesus wanted to take the “ordinary” ikons and turn them into a community of disciples launching the greatest social movement in human history. Read more
By Chris Walker To the Exhausted Pastors Working Through COVID-19, Hello, dear brothers and sisters. I too have been a local church pastor during this season. We’ve really been through something, haven’t we, you and I? It’s one of those things that no one can truly understand unless they’ve sat in our chair. Unless you’ve sat in the chair, pastoring is a difficult role to understand, and can be a difficult role for us to explain to others. But those... Read more
For those of us who consider Easter the most central and essential part of the Christian calendar, the decision to suspend Sunday services one year ago was the strangest of Lenten resolutions. Personally, I had attended church every Easter of my life—except once. A few years earlier I took my family rafting on Easter morning. Skipping church wasn’t entirely premeditated. We were driving from New York to California for my oldest daughter’s college graduation and happened to land in Tennessee’s... Read more
March 11 marked not only the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic but also the tenth anniversary of a tsunami that devastated a coastal region of Japan. Read more