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...
"We Are All Here"
“We are all here,” the Apostle Paul responded to the Philippian jailer (Acts 16:28), and this is my declaration by the grace of God. One week after a wonderful lectureship in the early morning hours of March 3, 2020, west Cookeville and Putnam County was devastated by...Why Churches Stopped Meeting
“Services cancelled until further notice.” It is astonishing to see these words on church signs and websites. How could so many congregations stop assembling to worship God? Why did this happen almost overnight? It didn’t. Patterns in practice and doctrine that...