Phillip Jensen exhorts preachers and congregations to commit to drawing closer together through the life-changing activity of the ministry of the Word in corporate gathering. …preaching has other functions in church life. It engages and unites the congregation in our common discipleship. As we sit week by week together under the word of God we …

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Jeremy Walker empathises with an English clergy-man who ran afoul of parents by telling a group of school children about the historical stories of Saint Nicholas. Sadly, it is possible in some churches that you could upset more people by saying there’s no Santa than by questioning the virgin conception and the Gospel accounts of …

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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 50 Chapter 31 – Of Synods and Councils I. For the better government and further edification of the Church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils. II. As magistrates may lawfully call a synod of ministers and other fit persons to consult …

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