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Brian PellChurchFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Killing a Good Priest: The Best Movie on Pastoral Ministry

The 2014 film 'Calvary' is a shocking and moving portrayal of forgiveness and pastoral care.

Robin Jean HarrisChurchEducation

The Case for Children's Worship Services

We shouldn't remove children from public worship to entertain them with twaddle. But it isn't wrong to offer a separate service tailored to their stature.

Gillis HarpChurchBibleSacraments

The Overcorrection of the Evangelical Sacramentalists

The sacraments ought to be a core element of our public worship as Christians. But if they supplant the Word of God as central, we have erred.

Christina StantonChurchFormation

New One

One Mokgatle serves as a regional director for southern Africa with Acts 29. This is his story of how God saved and called him to ministry.

Chris CastaldoTheologyChurchRoman Catholicism

Is Rome a True Church?

Chris Castaldo, a Protestant pastor who was raised Catholic, considers how Protestants should regard the status of the Roman church.

Cameron ShafferFamilyParentingChurch

How Do Our Kids Stay Christian?

Kids who stay Christian as adults grow up with parents who practice the faith themselves and in churches that include them in their normal life.

Jake MeadorTechnologyEthicsChurchFormation

What Can Natural Law Do?

The technological challenges we will soon face are not the sort that can be defeated primarily through reason and argumentation.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Initial Notes on Ministry in a Therapeutic Age

While therapy and counseling can be a great good, they also can slide into a totalizing system that undercuts Christian discipleship.

Rhys LavertyWorkChurchEconomics and Business

Why Pastors Should Get a Family Wage

What is an appropriate wage for pastors? Rhys Laverty makes the case for a wage sufficient to support not just an individual, but a household.

Ross ByrdCultureChurch

A Parish Manifesto

The most effective evangelistic message for our day may not be 'you are accepted as you are' but rather 'be holy, as God your Father is holy.'

Patrick MillerChurchCulture WarEvangelism

What Happened When My Church Encountered Negative World

Christian love and showing grace to our enemies isn't a 'strategy' that can go out of date. It's simply what biblical fidelity requires.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

American Evangelicalism as a Controversy Generator Machine

The most significant thing about the Alistair Begg affair isn't Begg himself or his advice, but how the affair highlights the weakness of evangelicalism.