Who Will You Call?
Have you ever considered why congregations encourage and receive public responses, usually at the close of lessons preached or taught? Some say the extending of the invitation comes from a denominational practice, but that would be difficult to prove. Some form of...
A Special Day
The word of God authorizes by what it says. This is understood by the way your boss authorizes. When the boss sends an employee to purchase a specific part, that eliminates all other parts or purchases. Most understand this principle in the working world, but move...
New TBC Press Book on Disease and Church Assembly
Since early 2020, Kerry Duke has had a lot of conversations – conversations with Christians reaching out in fear, frustration and discouragement regarding COVID-19 and church assembly. Those concerns motivated him to write a book, “Church, State and Disease ‒...
Pre-Covid v. Post-Covid: Why the Difference?
We could just shrug our shoulders and say it is a mystery as to why so many congregations are reporting pre-versus-post-pandemic numbers, but is there really a big mystery here? It is a plain fact that congregations are routinely reporting a difference in their...