Church Offerings as Acts of Worship
How can worshipers understand the congregational offering as a response to God’s grace and a way to join God’s reconciling work in the world?
Rick Blunt on Connecting Church Offerings to Grateful Living
A conversation on the use of connection cards, cards that allow people to respond to the sermon with service.
Newsletters for Vertical Habits
Newsletters for the Vertical Habits
Joyce Borger on Psalm Singing History
Joyce Borger is worship and music editor for Faith Alive Christian Resources and editor of the quarterly journal Reformed Worship. In this conversation, Borger discusses the history of Psalm singing, and how she talks to Christians who have no history of singing Psalms in worship about trying it.
Practical Resources for Vertical Habits
A list of practical resources for Vertical Habits
Coop's Column- All Your Wondrous Works Proclaim
With so much around us to invite our curiosity and to evoke our wonder, a bored attitude toward life is sinful. A day’s adventure in the world ought to end, after all, with an exclamation point of thanksgiving to God.
Learning Worship through Book Groups
How studying a book or sermons together in a small group knits church members together in worship, fellowship, and discipleship.
Bonnie Lee on Sermon-based Small Groups
A conversation with Bonnie Lee on Sermon-based Small Groups
Natural Disasters
What exactly is a natural disaster? The intersection of ‘the average’ and 'the extraordinary.’
Coop's Column - Spirit at Work: Guarantor
The Spirit is the strange, personal presence of the living God himself, leading, guiding, warning, rebuking, grieving over our failings and celebrating our small steps toward the true inheritance.
Technology that Redeems Downtime
Does your favorite technology device, platform, or default activity help you become more like Christ and renew you for work in God’s world?
Coop's Column- Spirit at Work: Sender
This Good News - as every lesser piece of good news - is meant to be shared. And shared everywhere, always, by all who believe it.