Worship Comes First

If we haven't learned to be worshipers, it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else.

Worship Needs to Simmer

Rod Cooper writes:

When I was about 10 years old, I had the privilege of getting up at 4 a.m. to get the cows so we could milk them. As we came in for ...

We Need Help to Sing

In Witnesses of a Third Way: A Fresh Look at Evangelism, Robert Neff's chapter includes this story about visiting a church service: "It was one ...

Christmas Tree: A Poor Substitute

The Christmas tree has taken the place of the altar in too much of our modern Christmas observance.

Impromptu Worship

It was early January and in the doctor's waiting room every seat was occupied. There was the usual atmosphere of tension, each person concerned with his ...

Getting the Signals Crossed

We remarked to our church organist and pianist that we were amazed how they were able to communicate to each other when a change in the service required ...

A Two-Way Staircase

Worship is a stairway on which there is movement in two directions: God comes to man, and man goes to God.

Take Another Look

We need re-expression of the Christian gospel; but, maybe even more than that, we need re-realisation of the Christian gospel. The re-expression is not ...

Unknowing Idolators

I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

More Than an Economic High

Our whole society ... is focused on the celebration of Christmas. With the excessive commercialism which begins in our country immediately after Halloween ...