Community
Our Worship
10/22/2005 - It's a paradox that defies explanation. God asks us to worship Him - not because He needs it - but because we do. Yet if we concentrate only on what we like and dislike about worship, it loses all of its power to inspire us and praise Him ....


Our Unity
10/19/2005 - Neale Pryor and others have called the prayer recorded in John 17 "the dying request of Jesus," and it is, in part, for the unity of all who believe - so that others would see it and also believe. Yet we have a heritage of division ...


Our Leadership
10/19/2005 - Perhaps no other issue has challenged the Lord's church in the last century like the questions associated with leadership: Who leads? Which gender? Leads how? By authority? By serving? By turning out the heretic? By committee vote? By prayer and fasting? By shepherding like Christ?


Our Communion
10/19/2005 - It is a sacrament like no other. Derided as "ritual cannibalism" by critics, it fulfills a last request of Jesus, who said "This is my body ... this is my blood." And as often as we share in them, we remember ... and proclaim His death by dining on the divine.


Our Baptism
10/19/2005 - It may not have begun with John the Baptist, but the rite of baptism has long held a meaning of symbolic purification for the candidate; a kind of "second birth" into a new kind of life; an initiation into a fellowship of those who share the same faith ...