From April 19-May 10, we'll be talking about four aspects of worship from Exodus 25-40. To help you get ready, check out this post from Justin Taylor: The other day I came across the audio files from Southern Seminary's Institute for Christian Worship. Go to the site for all the lectures, bu...

Why do we have such a hard time living among non-Christians and loving them into the kingdom? From Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Once a man has the love of Christ in his heart you need not train him to witness; he will do it. He will know the power, the constraint, the motive; everything is already there. It ...

This article by Stetzer and Jason Hayes pretty much sums up what we hear from the 18-25 year olds that are connecting with us at Christ Church. What we say: Embraces the reality of doubts and struggles; Owns up to our individual and collective junk; Leaves us with great hope in Jesus. There are othe...

...we took advantage of the benefits of Twitter during our worship gatherings on Sunday? Here's how it worked for one church: So we started wondering, what would it be like to bring the Twitter kind of participation into Fusion in the same way we would think through any other worship interactive...

Jerram Barrs on why he went on faculty at Covenant Seminary 20 years ago: "I came to teach at Covenant because I felt constrained by the Lord to be of some service in helping men and women who are going into ministry to love non-Christians rather than to be afraid of them, to delight in buildin...

Mark Driscoll has received a lot of recent media attention due to the seemingly incongruous topics of sex and Jesus but here's a change of pace - an excellent interview done with Mark by Dr. David Nelson of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on culture, church planting and pastoring....

This is really good: When I say am I am Reformed I mean: I marvel at God's holiness, that he is independent, pure, good, and utterly beyond me. I glory in God's goodness, that he should save a wretch like me, totally undeserving, bent toward evil in all my faculties. I rejoice in God's s...

I came to Christ Church Presbyterian as the lead teaching pastor in June 2004. For the past five years, the church has struggled to survive and find an identity as we've changed names and become part of the Acts 29 Network while remaining in the PCA. There have been some great memories and some ...

The Mark Driscoll national media tour continues - NYT Magazine, Nightline and now he's on CNN this weekend with comedian DL Hughley. What I liked about this exchange is that Mark was able to take a dude who's going to approach a topic like sex flippantly and get his respect and open the door to a co...

Bob Flayhart, pastor of Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, wonders if this isn't part of the message in U2's song 'Get On Your Boots': So, Church, cry out to Christ to meet this broken world with His grace; Cry out that He will put on His boots and trample His enemies th...