Preparing for Worship - George Mason, senior pastor. We sometimes confuse the words hear and listen. To hear can either mean the physiological act of having sound waves bounce off our eardrums and register in our brain, or it can mean comprehension of what is heard....

At some point in my conversation with new members, I say something like this: “I believe God has always given us everything we need at every moment to fulfill the mission God has given us as a church.” I then tell them how excited I am to learn what new thing God is...

Baptists aren’t leaders in liturgical innovation. In fact, we’re kind of spare in our worship rituals. We focus more on inner experience than outer ceremony. But we’re also human, and humans are incorrigible meaning-makers. At Wilshire, we’ve added a few splashes to...

My daughter Jillian and I had a moment at the MoMA this week. The Modern Art Museum in New York City features a world-renowned collection of masterpieces in the modern style of painting and sculpture. We were standing in front of Paul Cezanne’s Boy in the Red...