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With the growing number of single parents in the country today, many churches are embracing single parent ministries. This leads to growing...

I know, I know—there’s a certain level of irony when you provide “bullet points” on death. Nevertheless, here are five important things that the...

Jesus told us to pray for God’s kingdom to come. What does that mean?

Although not everybody has the luxury of enjoying a summer vacation, the season invariably lends itself to setting aside some time to read a good...

Barren, unproductive, lifeless believers are either blind or short-sighted, and have clearly forgotten they were ever forgiven for their sins in...

Communicating vision and mission to your staff or volunteers is a monumental task. The opportunity for people to hear, understand and then respond...

There have been few things more damaging to the church’s witness than how it has handled moral failure among its leaders.

As they moved toward the baptistry, candidates were expected to recite the Creed, not to show that they “meant business” but in order to show that...

Jeremiah Burrough’s The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most important and personally-impactful Puritan works I’ve ever read. Let...

On Saturday, April 21, Charles Wendell Colson died. On Wednesday of this week, I attended his memorial service at the National Cathedral in...

What the Scriptures says to a church obsessed with its image

Personal development is certainly not wrong, but it is misleading—and it can be very disappointing—to make it our preeminent goal.

Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. But this atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul...

One of the more interesting sections of dialog in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress has Christian and Hopeful discussing the danger of...

It’s been a breathtaking week on the culture front in relation to homosexuality.