True Ministry

The foundation of ministry is character. The nature of ministry is service. The motive for ministry is love. The measure of ministry is sacrifice. The ...

The Suffering Community

I’ve always wondered what makes community biblical—as opposed to community that is merely social. Often churches provide social community, ...

Religious Pace Setters

For the first time in American history, whatever is happening in religion is being driven by the media instead of ecclesiastical institutions.

For Your Information

Over coffee: "All I'm trying to say is that certain people might think that 12:15 is a little late to be getting out of church, that a pastor doesn't ...

New Theology Unnecessary

What we need is not, as is so often argued, ... a new theology of nature but rather a return to the original message contained in the Bible and preached ...

When a Simple Majority Won't Do

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together, their purpose is not--or should not be--to ascertain what is the mind of the majority ...

To Be a Spoke in the Wheel of State

There are three possible ways in which the church can act toward the state:

In the first place, it can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate ...

A Purified Church Is No Church

Farewell to those who want an entirely pure and purified church. This is plainly wanting no church at all.

The Purpose of the Church

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together ...

The Church Should Look Inside

There is certainly nothing wrong with the church looking ahead, but it is terribly important that it should be done in connection with the look inside, ...