Is going to church necessary?
Reading Time: 3 minutesI don’t go to church anymore. I’ve been hurt too many times. Is church necessary? Yes, it is…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI don’t go to church anymore. I’ve been hurt too many times. Is church necessary? Yes, it is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is the nature and mission of the church? This is a huge question, but we can start to…
Reading Time: 5 minutesDietrich Bonhoeffer begins his classic Life Together with these words: It is not simply to be taken for granted that…
Reading Time: 2 minutesby Israel Steinmetz From an outsider’s view, Christianity is full of strange rituals. Even in non-liturgical churches like…
Reading Time: 6 minutesI was baptized by my father and another minister in a frigid northern California mountain stream at a campmeeting…
Reading Time: 8 minutesI’d love to be involved in a ministry. My life is just so crazy right now. Or perhaps you think…
Reading Time: 4 minutesOurs is a time of fascination with sexuality and its myriad deviations. The “sexual revolution,” traced to the 1960s…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Growing up in Sabbathkeeping churches, I’ve heard hundreds of sermons dealing, directly or indirectly, with Sabbath. Most of these…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat does John mean when he says the only begotten Son of the Father is “full of grace and…