In the course of a lifetime, a Christian will spend countless hours gathered with other Christians for corporate worship. If we're going to invest so much time and energy doing this, it would be wise to consider why we do it. Why do we gather? What...

Look at yourself in the mirror. Now look away. Do you remember what you look like? Of course you do. How could you not? Well James says that those who hear God’s words and fail to do them are like those who stare at themselves but forget what they...

How do you become a member of the Church? After having spent the last few weeks considering the nature of the Church and the Biblical rationale for membership in the local church, today we turn to consider the marks of a church member. We begin at...

Membership in the universal body of Christ necessitates membership in a local body of Christ. The New Testament assumes that believers will be members of the Church (big "C") by being members of a church (little "c"). The local church is the...

Perhaps you grew up going to church your whole life. Or maybe you’ve never been to one before. Either way, what if church wasn’t a place you went? What if it wasn’t about a religious thing you did once a week? What if it was something different...

Would anyone buy a foundation with no home built on top? Or cuddle up with a head that was disconnected from the body? Would adoption work if you chose to have a relationship with dad but not his other children? Of course not. Yet this is precisely...

When we need a vision for life, we turn to Jesus. When we want to learn to love, lead, give, or serve, it is right to look to Jesus. Yet, what are we to learn from him in terms of parenting our children? Today we dedicate some of our children to the...

Message from Ajay Thomas on September 19, 2010

Jonah has been a book full of surprises and unexpected turns. It ends in the same way. The book concludes with God asking Jonah a question to which there is no response, no reply, no answer. The reader is left wondering, "what ever happens to Jonah?...

If you read the story of Jonah, his failures and flaws leave you wishing for a better prophet to fulfill God's mission. You're left longing for a better Jonah. Though it will take hundreds of years before this longing is fulfilled, it is fulfilled...