Church Matters Archives

With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience.

How can you tell when spiritual growth is taking place? Where are the markers?

I knew almost instantly from the actions and voices of the children that the family was a healthy one. Is it likewise possible to ascertain within...

After The New York Times ran a news article on the firing of Atlanta’s fire chief for his views on homosexuality, a Times writer said that...

Jesus does not clearly abolish the Sabbath, nor does he violate its stipulations. But if the Sabbath is a holdover from the Mosaic covenant, are...

Christmas is truly in the air for those who receive gifts from Operation Christmas Child in a region of constant wariness. And so it always has...

When those who struggle with sexual sin grab hold of the grace of God, it changes their lives. Let’s take a look at how.

What might be on the "unpublished wish list" of pastors this Christmas? Not trinkets, or even things for themselves.

Miss a Sunday School Christmas party and you could lose a church member. It might seem crazy, but it happened.

It’s surprising, but more often than not it’s the mundane things in life that can end up destroying our faith.

I can think of two different ways of viewing a church: a family or a store. And it strikes me that these are the two ways that people who attend...

In almost every behavior, church members were looking out for their own needs and preferences… You get the picture: I. Me. Myself.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Church as well as Christian counselors can learn three crucial lessons from the NFL.

“Pastors are not being prepared to effectively pastor their people within an age of affluence."

Do you need more preschool workers to serve children? Do you need more greeters to greet? Here's why.