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?
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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.
Highlight: Frontline Fellowship’s Great Commission Course
Frontline Fellowship is an interdenominational Reformed mission to the persecuted church. Founded in 1982, with help of Bishop Stephen Bradley of the evangelical Church of England in South Africa, Frontline Fellowship has faithfully borne witness to the gospel of Christ for over forty years in war zones and restricted access areas, including to persecuted Anglicans in the Muslim-controlled regions of Sudan.
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 is that most people would say love …
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.
Review: “The First Book of Homilies” in modern English
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 The Articles of Religion have been brought back out of the drawer of “historical documents” and shown to have tremendous value in defining Anglicanism—not that …
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Aspiring to heaven
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 I kept a prisoner here,So distant from that …
Christians and “pronoun hospitality”
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?
The vicar’s life
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.
What is humility?
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.
Review: “Eastertide” by Ashley Null
Dr. Null has combined his top-notch research on Thomas Cranmer with a great level of pastoral concern.
The problem of images in Anglican worship
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 already with the ones we have, even when made for so-called teaching or artistic purposes.
Are images of Christ acceptable in worship?
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.
The fruitless fig tree
That God that dwells in heaven above,
Whose glory none can tell:
He condescends, in matchless love,
With worthless man to dwell.
Review: ‘Leading God’s People’
I found Leading God’s People: Wisdom from the Early Church for Today to be helpful and personally-affirming. The author, Christopher A. Beeley, through his study of the early church fathers, affirms the idea that church leadership is not as much about personal charisma, and having read the latest bestselling self-help books, as it is about being the sort of person that can honor God in all of life.
