Preaching as a Dying Man to Dying Men
The Urgency We’ve Lost You’re sitting in a coffee shop, catching up with an old college friend. You haven’t seen him in years. The conversation flows easily: work, family, hobbies, the usual catching up. He mentions he’s going through a rough patch. His marriage is struggling. He’s questioning a lot of things he used to […]
Clergy for Hire
State of the Church: The Celtic Revival (17) Concerning those bishops, however, who ordain uncanonically, that is for hire, I ask what you decree; Gildas the writer set them down as simoniacs and plagues. Are we really to communicate with them? For many, which is too serious a matter, are known to be such in […]
To Know God’s Love
Where God is His glory can be known, and in that glory, His unspeakable love. Knowing the glory and love of God is the high privilege and calling of all who have made the Kingdom turn. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on page 84: “What great joy such love engenders, what a powerful sense […]
Faith Portent
Matthew 8: Setting Things Right (2) Pray Psalm 67.1-3.God be merciful to us and bless us,And cause His face to shine upon us,SelahThat Your way may be known on earth,Your salvation among all nations.Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.Sing Psalm 67.1-3.Solid Rock: My Hope is Built on Nothing LessO bless us, […]
Faithless and Doubting
They did not observe his decrees but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.
Both
Jonah 4:1–4 (ESV) But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and […]