Many of you are pastors or teachers who are putting finishing touches on your sermon or lesson for this weekend — and too ...

Lora A. Copley is an ordained Christian Reformed Church (CRC) minister. She teaches in a pastoral leadership program on the Navajo Nation and at Rehoboth Christian High School in New Mexico and is a ...

The pastor who preceded me at Arcade served the church 40 years. Bringing change to this congregation would be either a supernatural work of God or professional suicide. My first sermon at Arcade ...

“Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea” by James Tissot. (Credit: Wikicommons/Public domain.) Listen At the heart of Christian discipleship is the call to prayer. As followers of the Lord Jesus, we are ...

Great figures from church history have much to teach about talking with God. Gary Neal Hansen used to think he had a peculiar prayer life, because his prayers were unlike those of people around him.

Jesus was praying. Spurred by his example, one of his disciples asks him to teach them how to do it. John the Baptist had taught his disciples; you teach us. There’s a lot to unpack in those few ...

How should we start each day to provide ourselves with the greatest opportunity for living with full attention, practicing momentary focus and achieving the fullest sense of meaning in life? I wish I ...

Who could fail to empathize with Isaiah's heartbroken planter? The poor man loved his land with all he had, molding it with his muscles, caressing it with his hands — never a mention of a servant to ...