When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we are experiencing the truth and power of the gospel not just in our minds but in our bodies and souls, too.
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The Offering (or Offertory) is a profoundly intentional act that is meant to shape us week by week as the people of God. Each Sunday, our Offertory reminds us that we are stewards, not owners; partners, not consumers; and givers, not hoarders.
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God's word in Scriptures is authoritative for all humanity, as it guides, challenges and reveals who God is and who we are. But hearing it preached together on Sunday morning as a part of worship, it also unites and transforms us into who we are meant to be--not only as individuals, but as a whole community.
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Praise is the act of appraising God as worthy and glorious--and giving heart and voice to that act of valuing the Almighty. Therefore, praise in corporate worship helps us orient ourselves to the priorities of God, helping us to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
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The passing of the peace is not just a time to greet those in the pews around us; it’s our response to Jesus’ command to share the Gospel—that God’s shalom was now coming into the world—with neighbors and strangers, alike.
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Because the Spirit works so powerfully and personally through music and singing, we need to pay special attention to what Scripture says are the characteristics and purposes of musical worship for and in the church.
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The weekly practice of confession–when, in the midst of our gathered worship, we admit both individually and together that we are sinners–is just about as counter-cultural as the Christian community gets.
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This week we’ll be looking at the Call to Worship, and how it reminds us week by week that God is at the beginning and center of everything.
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What we do in worship, week by week, shapes our identity as God’s people living by a distinctive set of practices and rhythms.
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At the close of his letter, Peter urges us to “stay alert” and to remain in a posture of humility, submitting to God, submitting to church leaders, submitting to one another. And in the end, Peter says, God will restore us and set everything right.
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This week we look at Peter's reminder that our trials are an opportunity for our faith to be strengthened, our intimacy with God deepened, and our hope to be made all the more strong.
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There is a Living Hope, which brings us together during desperate times, and compels us to engage in the heaviest, darkest, most difficult places.
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According to the apostle Peter, “mission” is not an episodic activity but an everyday identity.
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Peter's vision of Christian community calls us to re-order our lives away from individualism and toward shared life and practices.
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Being a people set apart for God's special purposes of love is a very delicate balance that is only possible through the grace of the gospel.
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Through the power of the Spirit, we can even have hope in the midst of the difficulties that seem to pervade the modern world
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What does it mean for us to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth today, in Richmond, VA?
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The astounding news of Easter is that God has thrown our death spiral into reverse through the resurrection of Jesus.
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At its core, Lust is treating another human being as though they were merely objects available to satisfy our physical passions. Our culture makes a virtue out of almost unfettered sexual desire, yet we are still loathe to talk about (or admit personally) the damage it does to both personal and community relationships.
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The deadly sin of anger is unusual in that it is the only one of the Seven that is also an attribute of God. But while God’s anger is always driven by love, our anger is nearly always driven by selfish desire. This Sunday, Corey Widmer continues the series Seven: Finding Freedom from the Darkness Within.
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