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Excommunication is the most severe expression of formal spiritual pronouncement in the process of church discipline. Excommunication is not...

Debates about what beliefs and practices are acceptable for Christians are nothing new. But they rarely involve essential Christian beliefs, such...

Instead of seeing abuse survivors as tutors leading us toward compassion like Jesus, we repel them. With the crisis of sexual abuse in our midst,...

God is not surprised by the American Christian’s strained relationship with His Word. But to those of us who will listen, He calls us to something...

Before Jesus steps onto the scene in the New Testament, God reveals himself in a number of ways in the Old Testament. These appearances, known as...

It’s never become clearer that we need love to heal us. Divisions abound and fear saturates too many of our relationships. What does the church...

Want to be a better leader? Nehemiah understood 5 important principles of leadership that most people never do.

Every pastor should have the goal to study the Word throughout his whole lifetime. How well do you 'know' the Word, and how can it benefit everyone...

Obviously, any sort of murder ought to shock and alarm any person, and usually does. Few people, except the terrorists themselves, will justify in...

I’m for government policies to protect the family and to care for the poor. I’m for missions activity for people I’ll never see or know. But I have...

So, there are those who depart from the Faith because they never truly had it. And there are those who fall for a season but are returned to the...

A fellow pastor recently asked me, “What are the keys to a long tenure?” It was a good question, and one (to be honest) I hadn’t reflected on. I...

Regardless of why he betrayed Jesus, Judas forever will be remembered as a traitor. As Jesus foretold, “…woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is...

The word gospel has been used so commonly for so long that it’s become all but stripped of its meaning. What does it mean for the gospel to...