Rend Co. Journals

For reasons that have far more to do with pop culture than scripture, we tend to see worship primarily as a musical thing - worship is THAT guy with an acoustic guitar singing simple four chord songs. And while that absolutely CAN be worship, it definitely isn’t its highest expression.

LIVE FROM THE GOOD NEWS SESSIONS  Do you ever find yourself standing in a Sunday morning service feeling unworthy and timid because of some struggle with sin?

The poet Wendell Berry wrote : “Practice resurrection”. You may be saying to yourself right now that this seems like a really uplifting thought for a poem…but how do I actually do that in real life?

"How do I become an apostle, a minister of the Gospel, who may at times play music?"...