Church Matters Archives

What is it that people entering a church want?

It is one thing to try and convince people wanting to fly from Charlotte to Atlanta to consider using Delta’s services over US Airways. It is...

Imagine if the local church became the place in culture to experience beauty, imagination, creativity and transcendence. It is possible...

“We’re continually looking at just about any opportunity for someone to buy a sandwich, wherever that might be,” says Don Fertman, Subway’s Chief...

I have been a youth director for nine years; the past seven years, the ministry has needed to fundraise between $15,000 and $20,000 annually.

How will Satan attack your church? Does he have a primary strategy, one that seldom fails?

If we kick out every church member who belongs to such-and-such a lodge or takes such-and-such a drink, where does that leave us?

Is the proclamation of God's Word merely a human dialogue---people of rather equal status speaking to each other? Does having a sermon undermine...

What's most important in a church? The music? The programs? The preaching? The outreach? Every Christian assumes something is most important. What...

Here are five trends and their implications that I've observed as the ones to watch.

I made it very clear that all of our efforts in reaching up, reaching in, and reaching out are a response to–and fueled by–the fact that God, in...

Not surprisingly, the top two categories of resolutions had to do with issues related to weight/health and debt/finances.

The evangelical church in America faces a crisis of authenticity as it struggles to maintain its core identity amidst shifting cultural values and...

There are outside-the-church idols and there are inside-the-church idols. It’s the idols inside the church that ought to concern Christians most....

If you’ve been in church leadership for very long, you know that most unchurched parents come to church not for themselves, but for their kids....