Our uncomfortable calling as exiles—to be neither isolated from nor absorbed into our environment—means following the footsteps of the Suffering Servant.

Paul exhorts the Galatians to walk by the Spirit and further explains what this will look like amidst the body of Christ.

The overarching need for the church, which animates Westminster Seminary California is the Word of God.

Paul reassures the Philippians of the pastoral care that surrounds them.

Jesus surprises and encourages his disciples with the proclamation that they and by extension we, are the light of the world.

For J. Gresham Machen, the church is the central institution in the life of the believer.

How to cope with the disappointments and failures in pastoral ministry in light of Acts 18.

Women hold the general office of believer and as such, they have certain rights and responsibilities for service in the church.

It is by having the word of Christ dwell in us richly that churches may escape being a mess and become the radiant body of Christ as God intended.

When we invoke the whole phrase — “the church Reformed and always being reformed according to the Word of God” — we confess that we belong to the church and not simply to ourselves and that this church is always created and renewed by the Word of God rather than by the spirit of the age.

God has established the church to enhance the world.

Mrs. Hilda Ozinga, a widow, shares with W. Robert Godfrey about grieving from her own experience and others'.

How God conveys his saving grace through the Gospel outside the church’s formal worship services.

The Apostle Paul uses three rich metaphors to describe his own ministry that provide for us models as we think of ministry in our own context.

Christ is at the center of our worship as the object of our worship.

A defense of the centrality of the church in the Christian life.

Reformed churches must be big tents in the sense that they welcome all persons regardless of gender, race, ethnic background, or sinful beliefs or lifestyles that they want to put behind them. But Reformed churches, especially in their worship, must not seek to satisfy unconverted desires for entertainment and self-gratification. They must teach, worship and live according to the Word of God alone.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals  is a strong beginning for a movement to call all evangelicals to self-examination and reflection, to repentance and renewal at the doctrinal center of our commitment to Christ. 

The offering clearly has a vital function in the financial life of the congregation, but how does it function spiritually in the worship of the church?

The ancient worship of the church, which focused on the Psalms and sung without musical accompaniment, was simple, spiritual, and reverent.