Church Matters Archives

Drawing near to God requires that we listen before we speak. Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.

Are your church’s worship services less than the best they could be?

The early New Testament church shows us that generous living honors God and blesses others.

The church does not belong to pastors or congregations but to Christ alone.

What if I gave you a list of ten things that any church could do that would bring almost immediate renewal and growth. Would you be interested in...

Have you ever been in the desert? I’ve been in many deserts, both physically and spiritually.

If we take a moment to consider the root of our disagreement we may discover that our differences are simply preferences and not primaries.

The church ought to see itself as a leadership factory that stirs up the gifts of God in people, not an auditorium that gathers people behind a...

On the day of Pentecost, the disciples' confusion turned to conviction.

As I think about my son’s future, and even about life in the modern day, I have to ask the simple question: What effect does “social media”...

The standard answers for churches lacking revival include sin, complacency, prayerlessness... but those answers are missing the point.

As often happens, when I began preparing and praying to speak on worship, I realized just how little I actually know on the subject...

Christianity has an image problem. Many of those outside of the Christian faith think Christians no longer represent what Jesus had in mind – that...

It is not at all uncommon to hear of pastors who lose their way; we have become so accustomed to hearing stories similar to Tchividjian’s that we...

The largest Protestant denomination in the United States is meeting this week, but it’s not as large as it was last year, or the year before....