What makes a church work? Five traits to consider
What does an elder need to be doing to help his church be outwardly focused? What about the minister? How should elders and ministers work…
Archive: May 2015
A church for the broken and hurting
FORT WORTH, Texas — Some in the group have been sober for years. Others measure recovery in days, not weeks. A few still smell like alcohol. To…
‘God doesn’t need us to be perfect’
As a shy, unassuming freshman at Oklahoma Christian University, Amber Foster never saw herself serving Christ on a foreign field. Fifteen years later, she has…
Churches gear up for tornado relief in Oklahoma
In Blanchard, Okla., the Bridge Creek Church of Christ survived a recent wave of tornadoes, but the house across the... Posted by The Christian Chronicle…
Unit 3: A city on a hill
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it…
Baseball, barbecue and support for Latin American missions
ARLINGTON, Texas — There was a lot going on at the Texas Rangers' game this past Saturday night. There was a parade of dogs coinciding…
Voices only: Training churches to sing — in Ukraine and everywhere else
Church members sing "Oh God, Jesus Christ" as Miroslav Seliverstov sings Isaiah 61:1-3 IRPIN, Ukraine — The sounds rising through the retreat center in this Kiev suburb…
Q&A: Steve McLeod on preachers, student loans and our ‘debt-ridden culture’
At Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tenn., aspiring ministers get a graduate-level earful on the pitfalls of student loans. The person who most frequently…
Ministers and the student debt monster
Second in a series Abilene Christian University says it’s taking steps to crack down on the tens of thousands of dollars in debt accumulated by…
Peace in the valley
IRPIN, Ukraine — "He was oppressed and afflicted ... cut off from the land of the living. For the transgression of my people he was…
