Today we held a "Ministry Fair" at the church that serves to highlight the many ministries within our church as a way to highlight the sorts of things we do and also to allow others to volunteer and serve in particular areas where we have need. As I stood at my station, I began to think about the church and why I, with my family, attend and serve... and it caused some interesting reflection ...

We've started a Bible study at the church so I'm going to just share some of the thoughts and scriptures that we look at each week. This is our first week and the topic was What does it mean to be a Christian? The first thing we looked at was the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed, both of which we've looked at here before. I'm going to include the scripture ...

Whenever I hear (non-Christians) talk about Christianity it's always about "religion" and how they're "not into religion." When they make statements like this, I know that they have not heard the real gospel of Jesus Christ, nor do they understand what Christianity is all about. When people talk about how they hate "organized religion" and then lump Christianity (in the broad sense) in the same category, they miss what Jesus said. Don't miss ...

In the course of my studies I've come to realize that a lot of people have no idea what Christianity really means -- even people who profess to be Christian really don't understand what it means, and this is the real disappointment as the North American church has done a fantastic job of conforming the gospel to our culture when we should be aiming to conform our culture to the gospel (in other words, if ...