Worship

The Origin of Thanksgiving In 1863, as the country was engulfed in the flames of Civil War, Abraham Lincoln called all Americans to observe, “a day of thanksgiving and…

Charles Simeon (1759-1836), the eminent British preacher from Cambridge, advised his students in homiletics “to give every text its just meaning, its natural bearing, and its legitimate use…to ascertain…

Introduction Concepts of representation and visibility often come up in social and political discussions about equity, inclusion, fairness, or justice. These concepts can be wrongly or unwisely imported into…

How can we discern if a church is healthy?  Do we measure a church’s health by the attendance, the state of the finances, the number of conversions, or how…

Multiple news outlets have reported the Church of England is no longer describing their new church start-ups as church plants. A new study says the Church is opting for…

“Perhaps more than any previous generation of Christians, our generation needs to be saturated in the wisdom, grace, goodness, and health-giving clarity of God’s truth. We need our minds…

In the annals of Christian hymnody, few hymns stir the soul and summon the tears as profoundly as Horatio G. Spafford’s timeless piece, “It Is Well With My Soul.”…

The beautiful hymn of the Incarnation, called “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” is set to a tune likely based on an old Gregorian chant. The lyrics of the text…

On February 28th, 1991, Ruth Carpenter stepped into her boss’ office and entered every parent’s worst nightmare. Two uniformed Army officers had come to tell her that her youngest…

What makes a hymn a good hymn?  In the first place, the lyrics must be theologically true and weighty. The lyrics must faithfully express biblical truth, and they must…