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Sharon Veltema on why understanding how and why we worship is fundamental when planning worship, especially with young people.
A summary of the meanings and implications of vital worship.
Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us.
Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays.
Sharon Veltema on how to move forward once you have established a youth ministry team.
Sharon Veltema on how worship plays a formative role in the faith development of teens.
After writing three books about multicultural worship, Gerardo Marti has applied his research skills to what’s been called the emerging church or emergent Christianity.
Gerardo Marti, professor of sociology at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, is fascinated by diversity and innovation as aspects of how the world is changing and how that affects churches today.
In this series of meditations on the work of the Holy Spirit in believers’ lives, we are considering features about Christians which, said the 17th-18th century English Puritan Christians, are Spirit-prompted and Spirit-endowed; and which, more and more, ought to mark the lives of those who aim to follow Jesus faithfully. Christians who do display these qualities are “LUI”, “Living Under the Influence” of the Spirit. In this article we consider the seventh, and final, of these marks: “Simplicity of spirit, adult in knowledge, child-like in directness and wonder”
In this edited conversation, based on emails and an April 2013 phone conversation, Bob Waldorp explains how his church work and activism fit together.
Academic study can be a deep resource used to strengthen faith and ministry. It gives us language and frameworks to respectfully discuss vexing worship issues.
Like many young adults, Kristi Holmberg is keenly aware of inheriting an earth damaged by previous generations. However, rather than despair or turn cynical, she began during college to connect with Christians who are working toward a just and sustainable future.
