I heard it a variety of ways: “Your church is not very friendly.” “No one greeted me on Sunday morning.”

I love the institutional church. I believe the local church is God’s plan for saving and transforming the world. Jesus

As a pastor, I genuinely love the local church. In my own context, I love my church that I’m a

I remember my old mentor, Dr. D. James Kennedy, telling me that the pastor must love three things more than

It has been said, correctly I think, that “baptism is the starting gun of the Christian race.” This statement implies

It has become all too common for men and women to attack the church for all of the ways in

“Feeling good is overrated.” Those were the words of a sports psychologist speaking to a group of athletes. He was