The purpose of church architecture is to physically symbolize the true nature of where our worship takes place, and what is happening there... Church architecture is massively helpful in reinforcing these fundamental understandings in the worship that shapes everything we are and do.
Read MoreLiberation Front: Resurrecting the Church is a Scriptural muscle-guided slap in the face to both individual believers and the church as a whole calling them, and it, back to the Biblically-ordained role and power the church has been divinely ordained to uphold in earth and in heaven.
Read MoreBoth sides, in their refusals, diminished themselves, and, in so doing, diminished the effectiveness of the Church, breeding unforgiveness, bitterness, and hostility toward their own fellow Christians.
Read More...we are selfish. We want to please ourselves more than our brothers and sisters in the Faith, and even, all too frequently, than the Lord Jesus.
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This polarization led to sorrow, division, and stultification in many parts of the Church, and to an uneasy stand-off which, though somewhat better in our time, nonetheless continues to this day.
Read MoreWhen those from among the resultant counter-culture were converted to the Faith (mainly large numbers of younger people), they carried into the Church those speech, clothing, and musical fashions of the culture they were from, not unnaturally (or unreasonably) wanting to render praise to God in forms they knew and appreciated.
Read MoreDespite it being a passably entertaining film (did I mention orcs?), it bears less and less similarity to the story Jackson and crew highjack in order to make more money.
Read MoreThis is important, and I think it's a reality all too often lost on our parishioners who frequently don't grasp the full scope of what God is doing in our church, and consequently neither realize nor value St. John the Divine as they shou
Read MoreWhen God’s Pleasure in worship is primarily sought, blessings will inevitably result, worshippers will experience the Presence of God, and His Glory will fall.
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