Is Your Worship as Genuine as Gate A3's?
Healthy worship is more than meeting human wants and dabbling in fads. It should be the most spiritually mature and provocative event your church plans for each week. Like Gate A3. Read More ...
Bill Wilson |
How Protestants Have Made Accommodations
What a difference a half-century makes. Conservative Protestants, once focused on individual salvation, have become more aggressive cultural activists. Read More ...
Martin Marty |
Churches Using Old Answers for New Problems
In many churches, leaders deal with today's problems by going back to the answers that worked for them in the past. But old answers can never solve new problems. Read More ...
Ircel Harrison |
What's So Funny? These 10 Bible Passages Are
Whether intended or not, some passages of the Bible can draw out a smile or even a good laugh from us. Here are 10 examples. How many elicit a chuckle from you? Read More ...
Cliff Vaughn |
Why Future Christians Will Be Mystics
Faith can't survive on the meager nourishment provided by the mind alone. Faith will either affect ordinary awareness or will be formulaic, superficial and empty. Read More ...
Guy Sayles |
Adversity and Joy: Life Sends Both Your Way
Adversity is part of life. We know it's coming but we don't like it. But joy runs side by side with diversity – and you never know which one is going to run over you. Read More ...
Gregory Magruder |
Can Christians Be Conservative?
What's the definition of an authentic follower of Jesus? A conservative or a liberal? A revolutionary for change or a reactionary against it? Mark's Gospel suggests an intriguing answer. Read More ...
Larry Greenfield |
10 Commandments for Working for Change: Part Two
Can we bring about change for the common good when the situation seems hopeless? It's always possible. Here are five more truths about making things better. Read More ...
Gary Furr |
Bonhoeffer – A Faith That Stood Against Darkness
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who urged German Christians to stand against Nazi tyranny and violence, joined in a plot to assassinate Hitler – one of the more problematic elements of his life. Read More ...
Jim Evans |
How to Stop Being the Center of Your Universe
A lot of us seek the approval of others while living with the anxiety that we don't measure up. But there are steps we can take to end the exhausting life of being the center of our own universe. Read More ...
Barrett Owen |
Your Church Lost Its Way? 6 Questions to Ask
Churches and organizations don't always get in trouble for doing the wrong thing. Often, they'll lose their way when they try to do too many good things. Read More ...
Ircel Harrison |
Why God Doesn't Recognize Your Plans
We often make great plans about how we want to serve God – and then expect God to show up and bless them. Instead, we need to show up for God's plan. Read More ...
Andrew Gardner |
Christian Group Wants Religious Exemption to Bully Teens
A group of Christians is working to change a Tennessee law so students can use their religious beliefs to bully homosexual students. How can they be so far from Jesus' core teachings? Read More ...
Ed Sunday-Winters |
Why More Congregations Need to Choose Humility
Humility is at the heart of what it means to follow Christ. So next time you're at church, try taking the farthest parking spot. Others may need the closer ones more than you. Read More ...
Bill Wilson |
In Troubling Times, We Can Learn from Gandalf
We don't get to choose the times we live in. We can't control what happens to us. But, as a wise wizard from "The Lord of the Rings" reminds us, we decide what to do with the time given to us. Read More ...
Guy Sayles |
How the Bible Can Bring Order Out of Economic Chaos
Our economy's downward spiral has played havoc on our nation and world for the last few years. Perhaps the Bible's concept of creation can bring some order out of the economic chaos. Read More ...
Colin Harris |
Eight Ways for British Baptists to Face the Future
Facing a significant budget shortfall, British Baptists face inevitable change. As a new initiative begins a dialogue about that change, here are eight ways to launch the hope-filled conversation. Read More ...
Peter Dominey |
Possessed Man Sees What Tame Crowd Overlooks
When Jesus healed a possessed man, the crowd seemed to miss that unclean spirits were all around them. Today, do we miss the unclean forces that attack the vulnerable? Read More ...
Larry Greenfield |
No Simple Answer to What Divides America
A new book suggests that the reforms of the '60s jump-started the divided populations in the U.S. While such reforms may have played a role, a single explanation doesn't exist. Read More ...
Martin Marty |
Will New Southern Baptist Name Change Perception?
While a slim majority holds a favorable impression of Southern Baptists, half of young adults said they would not consider joining a Southern Baptist church. Will a new name make a difference? Read More ...
Randy Hyde |
King's Words of Truth Continue to Set Us Free
Unlearning fear and prejudice – rooting bias and hatred out of one's heart – requires a lifetime of work. It takes discipline to make room for people against whom we have been taught to slam the door. Read More ...
Guy Sayles |
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