“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for…

Communion is a re-participation in our story. Christ comes to us again and again and addresses our situation. Are we…

Communion continues the experience of baptism. Jesus said, “I have come that they might have life and that they might…

If the sacraments rightly administered are a mark of the true church, then they clearly are a central part of…

Ralph did not know when he first began to be aware of the healing effect of the church on him.…

In the Body of Christ there will be members who will be confronted with problems in their lives for which…

A central problem for the church in our time is that we have lost sight of the one allegiance which…

A critical issue with which many people struggle today is the question, “Who is my Lord?” We live in a…

(Continued from Part 1) Then things got worse. A Scripture was poorly read and the sermon started. The Scripture had…

Terry had been driving through a town on Sunday morning on her way to a Monday morning business appointment. As…

The worship experience provides several opportunities to lift up the experiences of grace within the life of a congregation. The…

A central task of the liturgy is the lifting up of the work of the people of God in praise.…

It was interesting to watch the recent General Assembly respond to the politics of fear. I was recently talking to…

When the original Peace, Unity, and Purity report of the PC(USA) came out in 2006, the emphasis was on pushing…

If we are willing to say that God can call whomever God chooses and our task is to affirm God’s…

The first issue that any Christian body has to resolve with respect to the ordination of either gay or straight,…

Some will ask why the General Assembly keeps discussing these issues when previous assemblies have already responded to them. The…

We are inviting people to step aside from their daily routines to touch and be touched by the eternal. Yet…

In our lives of faith, it is important to rehearse the many and often mysterious ways in which God has…

Worship becomes the people’s response to that incredible reality that the author of all the universes, creator of all time,…