Church Membership

With health care, we understand the need to plan for pain, even while we’re well. Spiritual care requires planning too.

Russell answers a listener question about whether a church’s differences over Calvinism and Arminianism mean it’s time to leave his church.

A durable, dogged, in-person, on-paper, public commitment to a local church is a necessary part of the Christian life.

A Chicago pastor encourages inner-city churches to see their youth as potential leaders.

Weekly participation in ordinary church life isn’t flashy, but it is radical.