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 is that most …
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.
In the past few decades, there has been a grassroots resurgence of evangelical Anglicanism as a confessional position. A new generation has uncovered our formularies.
The Articles of Religion have been brought back out of the drawer of “historical documents” and …
Inflamed with ardour half divine,For heaven I earthly gain resign;Those starry lamps that grace the pole,Inspire with joy my raptured soul.
O the dear festivals of night,What glorious dazzling to the fight!A fair angelic band maintainsDelightful watch o’er heavenly plains.
Why am …
If we aren’t hiding under a rock, we will be increasingly meeting, working, and living with those who identify as transgender. Should we use their chosen pronouns?
Through the portal and down the Nave,
he march’d with Holy Writ in hand,
to kneel and pray
at break of day,
and lean upon the reading stand.
To be nothing in order that God may be everything. That is Murray’s definition of humility. And I dare say it was John the Baptist’s definition as well.
Dr. Null has combined his top-notch research on Thomas Cranmer with a great level of pastoral concern.
We do not need to see a representation of Jesus with our eyes to see Jesus. Indeed, we are told, “A little while, and ye shall not see me”(John 16:16). We need no images of Jesus. We’ve distorted Him enough …
While images of Christ do not sanctify us, they may turn us more zealously and readily to the ordinary means of grace which God has instituted.
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