Category: Churches

  • The Table

    It was a season of celebration, when men from various parts of the world came to the Great City to commemorate an outpouring of blessings upon their ancestors. They were to remember how the men of old, who’d experienced slavery and oppression for generations, had finally been lead to liberty by the power of their…

  • Cultural Conversions & The Rise of the Church

    Christians can find a certain benefit in reading the news no matter how inauspicious it can be. We should understand the happenings in our culture and how it is interpreted from both the conservative and liberal mindset if we’re interested in engaging it. How we analyze and elucidate reported events is influenced by our worldview.…

  • An Ecclesiastical Camera Lense

    Awhile back, I joined a very good friend of mine in sipping on a Tim Horton’s coffee while conversing about his various ecclesiastical adventures. In between nips and laughter, our conversation extended to the topic of church hoppers and church shoppers. We knew many who were bouncing from church to church, living with discontent and…

  • The Standing Bulwark

    Public schools have changed their mission as educators in the same way they’ve altered the way their representatives teach math. Both are now much more complex and confusing. A perfect example of this is that while there are still some teachers who are solely focused upon a traditional form of education, others have fixated their…

  • Christ is Lord

    Would it be false advertising if the sign on the front lawn of your church building, instead of having some catchy Christian slogan, included the following statement: This Church Believes Jesus Christ is Lord? Would you truly be able to say to an inquirer that All decisions made in this church have Christ’s Lordship at…

  • A Divine Mission Statement

    Evangelical Christian Churches have for the most part jumped on the bandwagon to modernize their marketing strategy by including web content. Yes, they’ve gotten with the times and delved into utilizing this promotional approach. While these websites do a pretty good job at laying out the history of the church, giving you directions to their…