Church music on Sunday mornings is not performance but participation. God, in his mercy, designed worship so that every praise directed toward him would lift our spirits in the process. 

Our welcomes, our calls to worship, deserve the same level of intentionality as our song selections and sermon preparation. It is our first declaration of Jesus and invitation to Jesus, and all that follows in a worship service backs it up and builds on it.

I’d preached what seemed like dozens of applications on being the church, but nothing sizable happened until I preached with love, and members seized the opportunity to then walk in love.

Beloved congregants, would you pray for your pastors? Pray for their hearts…Fellow pastors, beware of the danger of the ordinary Sunday. Protect your heart.

I might have expected Paul to hate those he knew so well. But the love of Christ creates wonderful and surprising endings.

If you skip the feast provided by a healthy church…because you’re well fed on campus, you’re training yourself to seek from other sources only what the church is meant to provide.

His faithfulness. His nearness. His worthiness. In spite of the many ways we differ from each other, this act of worship brings us together.

As we meet each week, we show this broken world a picture of the coming kingdom where God's people will be gathered around the throne as one praising his name.

When ministry leaders show acceptance and hospitality to people with disabilities, making accommodations for them, there is still room for everyone.

In this adapted excerpt, pastor and author Josh Hayden shows readers the potential profit of “burying our preferences” for the sake of our shared mission.

Ministry is a team effort, and we are all involved. We need to minister to each other. That is what it means to be part of the body of Christ.

The aim of the pastor is to make God’s people faithful followers of Jesus who embody the Christian message of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.