As our church community grows and people are working with and for one another, there are opportunities for sin to mess things up. Here are a few helpful tips to...

Culture-making is one of the ways we change the world. But we should think small before we think big. Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” What if we ...

It has pleased the Lord to call our loving and faithful pastor Matt Carpenter to First Congregational Church in Middleborough, MA. To write about our dear and reverend...

“Should Christians be on social media?” is a very different question from “Should I be on social media?” In framing these questions there are two common mistakes. One ...

A scoffer is someone who behaves with arrogance, haughtiness, and pride. (Prov. 21:24). They are simple and hate knowledge (Prov. 1:22). They injure, abuse, and hate ...

Charles Chauncy was the Grand Poo-Bah of the Old Light coalition that opposed the New Light evangelists George Whitefield, Gilbert Tenent, and James Davenport...

Discernment is more than a “sensory relay.” It is a spiritual skill, a God-given capacity, and an example of applied wisdom.

At Harvard College in the eighteenth century, hell was the first doctrine discarded. It was an offense to rationalism that a loving God sends people to hell. They...

Trouble sleeping? There is danger in too little sleep (Prov. 3:24). We wish we could, like Jesus, remain “asleep on the cushion” in a boat tossed by the storm and...