Profile: How to Prepare When You're the Pulpit Supply
There’s no need to sit back and wait for a congregation to clue you in about your upcoming guest sermon arrangements. Take the initiative to find information that will help you enter a new church feeling confident, prepared, and on time to bring God’s Word.
October 13, 2006
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3 min read
How to Welcome Guest Preachers
The way your church welcomes - or fails to welcome - a guest preacher also says something about how visitors experience your church. And if you're the pulpit supply, the way you prepare makes a big difference. A feature story exploring how to welcome guest preachers.
October 13, 2006
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6 min read
Frederick Dale Bruner: Moving from text to sermon
Good preachers study commentators so they can draw on collective wisdom as they prepare sermons. Frederick Dale Bruner's Matthew commentaries set a high standard. A feature story exploring the commentaries of Dale Bruner and moving from a text to a sermon.
September 29, 2006
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12 min read
How to Choose a Bible Commentary
There are so many Bible commentaries available in English that it can be hard to know how to choose. A single commentary may cover the whole Bible, one of the testaments, a section of the Bible, a book of the Bible, or just part of a book of the Bible.
September 29, 2006
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2 min read
Profile: Steve Moerman, pastor of Cornerstone Prison Church
In 1996, Pres and Di Moerman invited their cousins, Steve and Diane Moerman, to a Prison Fellowship weekend. Steve and Diane got to know other inmates through one-on-one visits and Bible study correspondence.
September 15, 2006
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3 min read
Restorative Justice: Prison congregations multiply grace
Millions of people behind bars are waiting to hear the gospel. Forming congregations in prisons is an important step in restorative justice. A feature story exploring restorative justice and prison congregations.
September 15, 2006
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8 min read
How Churches Use Getty Songs
A look at how churches are using the Hymns from Keith and Kristyn Getty
September 1, 2006
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4 min read
Keith Getty on Writing Hymns for the Church Universal
Keith Getty says that what we sing becomes the grammar of what we believe. That's why he and Kristyn Getty are writing and teaching modern hymns that all ages can sing and remember together. A feature story exploring Getty's ideas on writing hymns for the Universal church.
September 1, 2006
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6 min read
Planning Contemporary Worship Services
Do you know how to look beyond the style of a "traditional" or "contemporary" worship service to find its worship vision, structure, and theology? Ron Rienstra says it's a question more worship planners should ask and answer. A feature story exploring the planning for Contemporary Worship services.
August 18, 2006
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6 min read
How Worship Service Structure Reveals Theology
The way you structure a worship service is important, in large part, because the structure reveals your theology. This is true whether or not you’ve thought about your worship’s theological revelations.
August 18, 2006
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7 min read
Profile: Ron Rienstra on Planning Contemporary Worship
While directing student-planned and -led worship services at Calvin College and Fuller Theological Seminary, or while leading worship workshops, Ron Rienstra has sometimes met “worship leaders who get frustrated with other people’s desire to plan carefully. Those frustrated have not themselves yet done much worship leading.”
August 18, 2006
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4 min read
Renovating Churches to Build a Sense of Community
Good architectural choices can improve worship participation, promote a sense of community, and make neighbors feel more welcome. A feature story exploring how church renovations can build a sense of community.
August 4, 2006
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10 min read
