This has a mystical element as well, as today’s Gospel passage shows. God is seeking friends for the Son, individuals who ...

Church leaders in the U.S. and U.K. report a rise in young men, particularly Gen Z, attending services, but caution that many lack biblical grounding, especially on issues like Israel. While some ...

While assessing personal transformation may seem unreasonable, scriptural guidelines still direct us away from sin and toward ...

On behalf of The Navigators and NavPress, Barna Group studies the state of Protestant spiritual growth. Protestant pastors are too hard on their churches. Either that, or churchgoers are too easy on ...

This last spring, we launched a series called #AmplifyWomen that explores the state of women’s discipleship in evangelical America. As evidenced by various Twitter discussions, the conversation ...

Discipleship is a topic we often don’t give enough time and emphasis to in churches today. If we boil it down to its essentials, there are basically three facets to discipleship: (1) becoming a ...

The new names — Builders of Faith, Messengers of Hope and Gatherers of Light — were installed to help young women ages 11-18 ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...