The church was designed by God as a source of fellowship, accountability, and teaching, and to serve as a witness to those inside and outside its walls. We come together to worship him in joyful obedience.

The gospel must be trusted and believed even when the surroundings are extreme in measure. And when the church and His people can showcase this trust in the gospel, Paul says it will reveal the power of God for salvation.

None of us needs another excuse to skip our church’s prayer meeting. We have more than enough: we’re busy, it’s difficult to wrangle the kids, it’s dark and we don’t feel like going out again, we’ve got an early appointment the next day, or we’re scared of being asked to pray in front of others. What we need instead are a few reasons for going. I’ve listed five below. I hope they motivate you to get out the door, go to the prayer meeting, and get on your knees with God’s people.

What does the cross achieve? Why does it occupy so central a place in the minds of the New Testament writers? The Bible gives many wonderfully rich answers to such questions. Here are a few, from five distinct angles—God’s perspective, Christ’s perspective, Satan’s perspective, sin’s perspective, and our perspective.

You are probably familiar with Easter. But what about the 8-days of Holy Week? Each day plays a massive role in making sense of Good Friday’s cross and Easter’s resurrection. This content will walk you through each day of Holy Week and how it all leads up to Jesus’ death and resurrection on Easter Sunday. This page will lead you to the Spoken Gospel webpage that will provide the Holy Week content.

As we enter Holy Week—that sacred span from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday—here is a day-by-day breakdown of what Scripture tells us happened on each day.

Unfortunately, today’s Western mind prizes autonomy and values privacy, and this has greatly affected how many Christians think about their relationship with other Christians. They tragically misunderstand that the Christian life is personal but not private.

Subtract love from any spiritual pursuit, and it adds up to nothing. Multiply anything without love, and it equals nothing. Bottom line, giftedness without selfless love amounts to nothing.

Faithful church attendance means simply this: nothing will keep members from public worship on the Lord’s Day. Second, attendance is beneficial only if the church being attended is faithful to the gospel.