What is a Home Church?

Aside from the obvious—meeting in homes—a home church is an assembly of believers that covenant to meet together weekly to worship, fellowship, study the Bible, preach the gospel, minister to one another and pray. In this day and age of home-based businesses, home-school and home-healthcare, this may seem like a new concept that is jumping on the home-based bandwagon. However, this concept is quite old—in fact, almost 2000 years old. The early churches of the New Testament

Make—Not Take—Disciples

This week in the news, you may have heard the Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer Corporation. For a measly $25 billion and some stock swapping the number four company in PC sales, Hewlett-Packard will merge with the number two company, Compaq, creating a gargantuan corporation that will surpass the current leader Dell Computer. Of course growth of this magnitude does mean about 15,000 people will be out of work. But, hey—this is business.

The Light of the World.

Matthew 5:14–16

There was once a nomad, traveling across the dessert in the Middle East. He woke up in the middle of the night hungry. Remembering that he had some dried figs, he lit a lamp and grabbed a fig. After taking a bite, and to his disgust, he noticed a worm in it. Without hesitation he threw it outside his tent and reached for another fig and took a bite. Shocked and disgusted he saw another worm after biting into it. This fig, too, quickly found its way out of the tent. Now realizing that at his rate, he would soon be out of figs and still be hungry, he did what most of us would do in that situation,