corporate worship

Give Thanks for the Church

Sarah Ivill
Nov 5, 2021
In a few short weeks many of us will gather around a table loaded with food to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends. For many it will be a day of feasting and family fun. For others, they may be too sick to eat, too filled with grief to laugh, or too busy to slow down and enjoy the day...

Mary Honywood and Her Flickering, Unquenchable Faith

Simonetta Carr
Jan 14, 2020
Mary Honywood and Her Flickering, Unquenchable Faith By 1558, most Londoners had come to loath Mary Tudor’s systematic executions of Protestants. Keeping the throngs away was in the crown’s best interest. On July 1, during the scheduled execution of preacher John Bradford (1510–1555) and apprentice...

The Blessing of Sunday Evening Worship

Mary Beth McGreevy
Aug 23, 2017
Soon after my husband and I moved back to St. Louis from Philadelphia and rejoined Covenant Presbyterian Church, we got a call from a friend inviting us to join a new supper club that she and her husband were forming. After she described it to me, I asked when it would meet. "On Sunday evenings,"...

The World in the Church 2: Ordinary World, Ordinary Church?

Garry Williams
Oct 22, 2015
My first article began with the observation that Satan ambitiously aims to attack the church at the very points that are intended by God for its defence. He seeks to bring the world into the church through its elders, and at the heart of its public worship. Having considered the growing problem of...

The World in the Church 2: Ordinary World, Ordinary Church?

Garry Williams
Oct 22, 2015
My first article began with the observation that Satan ambitiously aims to attack the church at the very points that are intended by God for its defence. He seeks to bring the world into the church through its elders, and at the heart of its public worship. Having considered the growing problem of...