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Mark 4:34 claims Jesus never said anything to the crowds without using parables.
Raymond Wise leads this time of song, prayer, and reflection.
Many consider the author of Hebrews the most adept storyteller in the New Testament due to the epistle’s comprehensiveness and rhetorical finesse.
Listen to and learn from scholars from diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences who provided exegetical expertise and unique interpretive lenses to The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (IVP Academic, 2024).
This vesper service features music from the soon-to-be-released Sending Songs album by the music collective Porter’s Gate. Created in collaboration with Fuller Seminary’s Worship for Workers project, this album offers songs that commission God’s people with mission and purpose into their places of work and play.
Musical collaboration in worship can be rewarding: it can build relationships, enrich the musical life of a congregation, and add more colors, timbres, and textures.
Often the task of preaching falls on the senior pastor or a few gifted speakers. However, congregations need diverse diets and voices to be nourished and equipped by the preaching of God’s word.
El salmo primero nos ofrece una visión clara del camino de la vida: lo que hemos de evitar y lo que debemos cultivar. El camino que siguen los perversos y despistados, y el que siguen las personas que han hecho de la instrucción y guía de la Palabra su norma de vida. Jesús como camino nos ha dejado un claro y desafiante modelo de vida. Él es el camino, verdad y vida (Juan 14:6).
Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants fund diverse projects for worshiping communities and teacher-scholars.
A topic guide to resources related to the book of Philippians.
Joining a racial justice pilgrimage in the American South helped a Canadian pastor see parallels to the experiences of Indigenous and settler peoples in his congregation. These insights are helping his church become more appreciative of God’s incarnation in Indigenous people.
The Black church has deep experience of suffering and being denied God-given and legal rights. As turbulent times affect more people, Jemar Tisby’s book The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance describes how Black Christians have kept the faith.
