Camping is the experience of moving from a familiar environment into a new one, usually simpler and almost always in the out-of-doors or wilderness.
A career is an occupation for which people train and in which people expect to earn their living for most of their working years.
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions.
Chores are responsibilities, generally of a manual and regular nature, that are basic to our everyday operating.
The average churchgoer views the terms Christian education and Sunday school as being synonymous. Such is not the case.
We use the word church in a number of different ways. The word can refer to a building, the members of a congregation, worship services, a denomination, the church as an institution and...
It is only after we have admitted that the family takes many shapes and forms that we can ask what a Christian shape and form is and dream about how to better embody...
Churches that do not own real estate are often able to invest their resources in ministry more effectively and extensively.
All churches are vulnerable to conflict, perhaps especially evangelical ones because of their independence and emphasis on the individual’s personal relationship to God.
Church discipline is the traditional term for how the church corrects sinful behavior in the congregation or removes a sinful person from the assembly.
According to some leading observers of the Christian scene, the two fastest growing forms of church life today are the very large church, including the megachurch, and the church in the home
Renewal is difficult to define. It can mean different things to different people.
Historically, for the most part, churches have not been large.
John Alexander says, “If you are a leader who believes in structure, brace yourself to receive criticism as a carnal stifler of freedom, creativity and the Holy Spirit” (p. 11).
In the Old Testament God adopted this West Semitic rite, depicted on statues of warriors from the early third millennium b.c., to show that the organ of procreation was consecrated to him.
To be a citizen is to hold a political office: not an elected office, to be sure, but an important office of public responsibility nonetheless. But what is citizenship? Where does it come...
The city is a fascinating, complex and dominating fact of contemporary life.
Civil disobedience means breaking the law nonviolently for conscientious reasons.
To be civil is to be courteous and respectful.
We look in vain in the Bible for laypersons in the sense of untrained, unequipped and not-called.
