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Truths Undergirding the Church as Apologetic The two key truths undergirding the book are gospel and community. Gospel is the revealed me...

James K. A. Smith Baker Academic: 2009 According to Smith, we are desiring creatures more than we are thinking animals. What we love shap...

In my earlier post “Connoisseurs of Churches” I quoted C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. In the passage I quoted, Screwtape (the mentor dem...

Trends that C.S. Lewis discerned about seventy years ago seem to have reached maturity in our day. While he often seems prophetic in that...

In worship God calls his people into his presence so that he can cleanse their hearts, renew their love for him, and refresh their vision...

We believe we can achieve dominance through science and technology. Religion may be helpful for private life, but it cannot deal with the...

As a church we have a growing sense of calling to see God use us to draw people to Himself. We’re earnestly praying and seeking Him in th...

Whether you like Mohler or not, I think he is spot on when it comes to this blog post about what churches must learn from the Penn State ...

The Aquila Report recently linked an article by Skye Jethani exploring the future of megachurches. Jethani does not write as an adversary...

To summarize: our souls are fed by the flesh and blood of Christ in the same way that bread and wine keep and sustain physical life….Even...

Although Creasy Dean is sympathetic to the motivation to be nice, particularly in a pluralistic context, she rightly concludes it is sub-...

I’ve only read the first chapter of Almost Christian so far, but oh what a first chapter it is. I have quibbles/questions with a few thin...

Dr. VanDrunen identifies a couple of popular analogies used to convey the importance of the church. One analogy is that going to church i...

Shane Lems has a recent post that I found quite useful in thinking about the church, and I hope you will too. Those of you who know me, k...

“Through the instructions he gives to the new minister at Crete, as well as to those Titus will appoint as church leaders, Paul cautions ...

Dr. Brian Lee has written about the church’s involvement in the political debate concerning abortion (HT: the Heidelblog). I said a coupl...

Hart and Muether point out that there is no contradiction between whether God is pleased by our worship, and how we as worshipers are ble...

Good liturgy necessarily arises out of a proper understanding of the church. But what is a good Reformed liturgy? “It is a liturgy that o...

For those of you who have read Tim Keller’s paper (or if you haven’t read it, you can find it here) presented in his discussion at Genera...

Carl Trueman's latest essay is over at Reformation21. I was interested in his point particularly as it informs our worship, and closely r...