“Many pastors begin their ministry in churches that need reform. Unfortunately, many can also tell the tale of having proceeded with change without understanding where the church has been and how it ...

“the evangelical church is wrong to shun work, to look skeptically on it, and to view such vocational endeavors as a mere “means to an end.” Christians who hold fast to a creational theology see work ...

“On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers and people from around the world converged in a spectacle of hope and grief at the National September 11 ...

There is real defeat here. There’s an aggressive enemy and, at least for now, he has won. He has “crushed… life to ground.” ...

I would call the modest growth in the past couple of years not so much ‘good news,’ but a reprieve from unrelenting bad news…. The growth depends almost completely on a few outliers. Among these outli ...

In making this contrast between the seen and the unseen, Paul uses the most logical metaphor, that of light; in his ministry ...

“Sneering types dislike the contention that the United States was attacked ‘for its freedom.’ I do not. Regardless, we can surely agree that the United States was attacked with its freedom. The ...

“Instead of pressing into community, I isolated. Instead of reading the Word, I scrolled Instagram to distract myself. Instead of praying, I consulted Google for hours, searching for the answers to ...

It is a bit of a stretch to call John Boys (1571-1625) a Puritan. He was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Canterbury ...

“Taking a brother to court, is about dishonoring the name of Christ before an unbelieving world. The online world is not the appropriate place to practice church discipline or air disputes between ...

“In our conversation, Michael and Keith offer…. warn against using AI as a relational substitute, reflect on the difference between toil and truly human labor, and argue that we should never outsource ...

“Slightly more than half of U.S. Protestant pastors (54%) report the average worship service attendance at their church has increased by at least 4% since 2023, according to a Lifeway Research study….