Opinion

Faithful congregations empower members, and their corporate faithfulness impacts those around them, those who benefit from the church's ministry and hunger for Christ themselves. Each church is God's temple.

Live your life throughout a new year that likely will be filled with unpredictability and uncertainty.

Celebrating the Messiah’s birth is important in worship, to be sure. But it also carries the opportunity/responsibility/risk of walking and acting in the Jesus way in the daily moments of life. It means not even withholding Christ from those who might seem unlikely to embrace it. God took that risk with Jesus. We are eternally grateful that he did.

The angel Gabriel was working overtime back in the first chapter of Luke. It was his job to deliver the top two birth announcements in Christendom to (1) the priest Zechariah, whose wife Elizabeth was to become pregnant and bear a son, John, who would be the forerunner of Jesus and to (2) Mary, the young virgin chosen to give birth to the long-awaited Messiah, Jesus, the savior of the world.

The Father's love is relevant today for every Prodigal Son. Word&Way trustee Wade Paris puts the biblical story in today's culture.

This is a six-part series on the prevention of church conflict. The author is Wade Paris, former pastor and retired director of missions and former Word&Way trustee.

This five-part series by retired pastor and director of missions Wade Paris is designed to assist pastors in helping couples begin Christian marriages. They might also help couples who marry without the benefit of premarital counseling.

A traveler stood at the counter of the airport terminal gift shop, ready to pay for a bag of Beanie Babies. His wife continued to gather more of the popular stuffed animals, shouting to the cashier, "Make that 11, make that 12," and finally, "Thirteen — and that’s the last one."