Contending for the parish list
Would you believe it if I told you that more than a few have showed up in church these past few Sundays since I began praying over them?
Encouraging the 1662 BCP IE in your church
Pastors, consider providing some encouragement for the use of The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition within your parish.
Grove Books: “The Practice of Evangelical Spirituality”
If you are not familiar with Grove Books, you are missing out. Grove Books was started by the great evangelical bishop and liturgist Colin Buchanan in 1971. The goal of the booklets is summed up in their tagline: Not the…
Planning instruction on the Articles of Religion
Ten sermons or ten class sessions is a manageable amount of time, probably not dissimilar to the sermon series that pastors already arrange. The sessions could easily be covered over the course of a Church season. These divisions align with…
Is grace really that common?
What could be so bad about common grace? Didn’t God love sinners enough to send His Son to die for them?
The problem of suffering
Why do we suffer? Where is God in our pain? What hope do we have amidst suffering? What does God say about pain?
Mercies temporal and spiritual reviewed
God of the morning, at whose voice
The sun begins his daily race;
And every day and every hour
Proclaim thy faithfulness and grace.
God shows himself
God keeps me ever mindful of him. When I rise in the morning, when I open a book, when I turn a corner, God is there—his face in mine.
Empty vessels
What would you say is the defining characteristic of a Christian? Faith?Love?Kindness? Zeal for the gospel? A Christian certainly should cultivate these and many other virtues, but is there one that underlies all the others? From the list above, my guess…
Christ the Christian’s support
Once, Lord, a broken reed I was,
And could not stand at all;
And now my standing is by grace,
Should grace remove I fall.