One of the members of our church, a man named Noel, recently wrote the following sentence regarding a biblical perspective on corporate worship . . . “Concerning worship, certainly anything prescribed and prohibited by the Scriptures should surely be adhered to vigorously and joyfully, but those things which are not delineated should be weighed thoughtfully [...]

I ran across two thought-provoking articles today on two different topics. Russell Moore addresses the issue of Judgment Houses, those Christian haunted houses used by many churches as an outreach during the time around Halloween. Then, I read an excellent Thom Rainer article on Five Warning Signs of Declining Churches. I hope you’ll read these [...]

This series of posts has been dealing with three “front and center” realities for Christians.  These realities must be kept in the front of our minds or we risk falling into error.  First, we saw the reality of the beauty of the creation.  Remembering this reality keeps us grounded in hope and not given to [...]

I set out in late September to write a three part series of blog posts on three “front and center” realities for Christians.  These realities are the key ideas about our world we must keep in mind if we are to live faithfully and not have a warped approach to life.  I began the series [...]

There are three realities in this life which Christians must keep at the center in order to live a life of joyful fruitfulness as a believer.  These realities are the ones we are most likely to ignore or distort and when we do, we often end up as distorted believers ourselves.  Over the next three [...]