Worship

Introduction “Tolle lege, Tolle lege.” Those were the words that Augustine heard spoken by a little boy or girl (or angel) over a thousand years ago on the day…

Introduction Corporate worship is the chief means of Christian discipleship (WSC Q.89). By “worship,” the Westminster divines included the reading, preaching, and singing of Scriptural truth, together with the…

Introduction Several years ago, my wife and I engaged in that most anxious of parenting rituals, teaching our oldest daughter to drive. We started simply, as most parents do,…

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…

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…