Highland, like Israel before them, has always had a problem with obedience. If indeed Israel wanted the pharaohs of this…

Historically, on October 27,1949, a group of members of First Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem petitioned The Presbytery of Winston-Salem to…

The center of all else that happens in the human relationship with God begins in worship. Without the act of…

By reading its almost fifty years of history through the minutes of the Session, I am attempting to listen for…

To exegete Scripture is to study a passage of Scripture with the intention of understanding and interpreting it. From a…

When we have an active community of the faithful who continually seek to listen as they are addressed by Christ,…

One of the important missions of the church is to provide an “alternate world” through which people can experience their…

Even when we are part of a culture that is heavily shaped by a certain language and mindset, the presence…

Walter Brueggeman, in his book, Israel’s Praise, (Foretress Press, Philadelphia, 1988) explores the world-making task of liturgy. He suggests that…

The members, who experience the address of Christ when they are called together as the Body, give testimony to that…

In a less radical vein, the church accompanies all of its members as they move out into their world of…

Consider who might be seen as not only outsiders but enemies of the good of the community in our time.…

According to Matthew, immediately following Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he came down from the mountain and performed two acts…

Forgiveness goes far beyond the demonstration of acceptance of one who comes to you. Jesus was very clear that his…

Tricia had been in the choir when she was a little girl. She loved the music. It was the best…

One of the scariest words ever spoken by Jesus is in the Gospel of John. During one of his resurrection…

If sin is the alienation or distancing which we experience as a result of act, attitude, fear, desire or indifference…

Witness in the third paradigm is not done from a position of arrogance but of humility. A problem for the…

In all three paradigms, the focus of mission is “salvation,” but the frontier where that mission is carried out shifts.…

Over 17 years ago, Loren Mead, in his book The Once and Future Church, stated that “where a sense of…