Old and new are always relative terms, especially when an American visits Europe. For example, in Delft in the Netherlands there is a New church built in 1420! The new church was built on the site of ...
At the Korean DMZ, you can see into North Korea far enough to see the largest flag pole in the world. The flag by itself weighs 300 kilograms. In Seoul, South Korea, by contrast, you can see churches ...
I remember the late President of Princeton Theological Seminary and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Dr. James I. McCord, telling the story of two friends at a party. One confessed, "I don't k...
After church one Sunday morning, a mother commented, "The choir was awful thismorning." The father commented, "The sermon was too long." Their 7-year-old daughter added, "You've got to admit, Dad, it ...
"Only those who love the Church," Wallace M. Alston, Jr. of Princeton, NJ's Nassau Presbyterian Church observed, "and believe in that for which it stands can be expected to support it with their stewa...
Here are some comments you'll probably never hear at church: 1. Hey! It's my turn to sit in the front pew. 2. I was so enthralled, I never noticed your sermon went 25 minutes over time. 3. Personall...
The church loses its effectiveness without the ability to send forth the work it is intended to be doing....
A church member stopped the pastor and angrily complained that the church had purchased five new brooms, an expenditure he thought completely unnecessary. The pastor was surprised at the man's reactio...
"The church is the most complex of all human organizations," says Ed Dayton of World Vision. "It's what we call 'goal-conflicted.' One goal is to send people forth, and another is to care for them. Pe...
When they inaugurated the city of Constantinople in 330 they wanted to honor its founder and namesake. So they brought from Greece a statue of Apollo, but they removed from the statue the head of Apol...
Heads or Tails You heard about the golfer named Jones who was twenty minutes late at the first tee on Sunday morning and the other three members of the regular foursome were almost ready to drive off ...
In the basement of America’s largest home, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, you can see a model of the structure. The model was completed first as a guide to build the home......
In the mid 1800s, 50,000 slaves were sold each year at Zanzibar on the coast of Africa. A church now stands where the old slave market stood. The altar is where the whipping post stood. It must be mov...
Studies have shown that many pastors and church staff are burning out. The current state is taking its toll....
In her book The Key to a Loving Heart, Karen Mains includes a parable about the church titled "The Brawling Bride." It tells about the most climactic moment in a wedding ceremony. The families have be...
Stephen Brown explains that when a group of thoroughbred horses face attack, they stand in a circle facing each other and, with their back legs, kick out at the enemy....
A young seminary graduate was called to his first church. That first Sunday, he entered the church proudly, with head held high. As he began the sermon, however, things seemed to go terribly wrong. He...
A man was coming out of church and stopped to greet the minister. The minister grabbed the hand of the man and pulled the man aside. The preacher said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!...