Mediatorial Kingship Under One Crown: The Church, the State, and Christ’s Mediatorial Rule November 13, 2024 Discover Christ’s mediatorial rule over church and state through seven historical models, exploring their distinct roles under His authority from Rome to the Reformation and beyond.
local church The Local Church Is Critical For Your Faith May 14, 2024 For our whole married life I was employed in a church until May 2023. Thus there was never a discussion about which church we would attend. Only the occasional decision about where to
Church Britain's Loneliest Sheep February 20, 2024 If we see a sheep on its own, we know something is wrong. We should look with similar concern on someone who claims to be one of Christ’s sheep, and yet shuns involvement in Christ's church.
Church Leaving a Church Well January 12, 2023 6 Principles in leaving a church well. How can someone leave a congregation well?
Voting Church, Polls & a Few Lessons June 14, 2022 This story begins in November of last year. While voting I noticed that there was a need for a Majority Inspector of Elections in my county. The ballot was blank and so I
Church Faction Friendships January 21, 2022 Too many Christians, on both sides of the controversies occasioned by covid, have retreated into their own tribe, making someone’s view of covid, lockdowns or facemasks the shibboleth of orthodoxy.
Church Eight Reasons Online Worship is Incomplete Worship March 22, 2021 The saga of Pastor James Coates [https://www.foxnews.com/media/wife-of-jailed-canadian-pastor-speaks-out-this-isnt-the-country-i-grew-up-in] , the Canadian pastor who was arrested in Alberta for holding church services last month despite COVID restrictions imposed by the government,
Church Discipleship Together February 19, 2021 Often it's not until something is taken away that we realise how significant it is. Hopefully we will all treasure much more the ability to interact freely and face to face with our brothers and sisters when that privilege is fully restored.
Church In Days of Trouble, the Church Matters January 29, 2021 As the pandemic continues to rage and spread despair, a Gallup survey shows one of the best things we can do is to go to church.
Public Worship How to Thrive as a Christian August 22, 2020 How can we most glorify God on the earth? What is the best antidote to backsliding and apostasy? What is the closest experience to heaven we can get in this world?
3GT 3GT Episode 182: Meditating on Metaphors May 26, 2020 With the guys still longing for the church to reassemble fully again, they decide to spend some time reflecting on the Biblical pictures of the church. What can we learn by looking at
Choices It Matters... May 21, 2020 I remember a video we watched when our daughter was young. The little boy snuck out of the house and went to see a prohibited movie. When his deceit was discovered, his father
Civil Disobedience Some Thoughts on Christian Civil Disobedience April 18, 2020 There are times when as Christians we need to disobey our governing authorities. But it is only when they require us to be disobedient to God — when the only way we can obey them is to be unfaithful to God.
Public Worship To Exiled Congregations April 15, 2020 This is a letter that I sent to my congregation last week. In the state of Kansas, until Saturday, April 11th churches were exempt from the restrictions placed on public gatherings. Our Governor
COVID-19 Birthing Life and Hope Amid Fear March 31, 2020 When death is all around us—and our own powers have so far failed us—Christians know that God is a God who brings life out of death. That is our hope.
Ashbel Green Pestilence and Pastoral Ministry March 20, 2020 Each of us in our own place and vocation have challenges to face and obstacles to overcome. I'm a pastor and so I feel the unique burdens that this pandemic brings for the pastorate.
Coronavirus 'Drive-in Church' – one solution to the problem of meeting together March 20, 2020 We need to assume the highest and best of motives in one another... We must assume that our brothers have thought and wrestled in prayer to solve the problem... and reluctantly come to the conclusion that this is the best, or the least bad, option available.
Coronavirus To Meet, or Not to Meet: Is it even a question? March 18, 2020 How contrary to a shepherd’s heart! To move away from the sheep, when they feel and sometimes are most vulnerable! And oh my, the weight of what one beloved, seasoned pastor calls “the guilt of the unpaid visit”!
evangelical Why I’m Still in an ‘Evangelical’ Church January 01, 2020 Evangelical churches may not preach about sin and salvation enough. But the fact that they still do is why—despite the unpopularity of the name—I still belong to one.
Church The Big Plus July 13, 2019 Just finished family worship with Hazel and the boys - tonight we read, with comment, Ephesians chapter 1. Quite breathtaking really, when you think about the glories of the great and gracious redemptive
Church When The Church Isn't What It Should Be July 05, 2019 The Gordian knot of discord is wound tight with strands of personality conflict and theological debate; backbiting and gossip; domineering leadership and high-handed membership; harsh criticism and insensitive disrespect; favoritism and partiality; lying and slander; arrogance and hypocrisy.
Nicene Creed I Believe in [a Relevant] Church February 21, 2019 When we live below that identity by a minimization or absence of one or more of these characteristics we trivialize ourselves into irrelevance. That's because it's this identity that makes the church unique.
envy Guidelines for Grumbling February 02, 2019 Do you ever get annoyed when others get praise and no one compliments you? Maybe you honestly believe that you have borne the greater burden but others have arrived late with far lighter
purpose Millennials Can't Buy Meaning November 30, 2018 People are trying but struggling even more today to find meaning because greater prosperity and more personalized technology have pushed materialism and individualism to crowd out other options--like Christianity.
Book of Numbers Making Sense of Statistics? October 20, 2018 I've been preparing to give two lectures on Numbers out in Africa next month - I've been delighted at some discoveries I've made in the, I have