This calendar is neither commanded nor forbidden. And for me, it shoulders some of the burdens. It is an invitation to follow a slightly different year, not the 12-month hustle, but the rotating, repeating seasons of the church.
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This calendar is neither commanded nor forbidden. And for me, it shoulders some of the burdens. It is an invitation to follow a slightly different year, not the 12-month hustle, but the rotating, repeating seasons of the church.
Amy Mantravadi has given readers the chance to learn about the whole of Maud’s life and in doing so has honored not only a great woman of history but also an underrepresented and poorly understood period of English and European history. I hope Amy Mantravadi will receive the recognition her research and writing deserve.
This Advent I want to start longing for his bride again. You cannot have Christ without his bride, and you cannot love and serve Christ without loving and serving his bride.
Single or married, your identity is in Christ because you, now and always, are in Christ. So live like that’s your identity, because, after all, it, and it alone, is.
The knowledge that God’s providence is the determining factor of reality—even when the circumstances are terrifying or full of grief—is a light in the darkness (Psalm 23:4).
In the incarnation, Christ did something better and more complete than all the heroic rescues of medieval romance combined. In emptying Himself of majesty, He gained one seemingly insignificant ability that would become the crowning perfection of His power.
Most Sunday mornings I am, by God’s grace, to be found wobbling up to the rail with other sinners. Any doctrine of the Supper that requires I ascend into the heavenlies to feed there with Jesus is entirely too much to ask of me.
The solution isn't to keep the Bible off-limits and to be told what to believe for fear we will misinterpret it but to learn the principles of handling the Word correctly in the context of a Christian community.
Divine impassibility is our guarantee of the unchanging, absolutely assured love of God for us. What we do not understand may infuriate us at times, but the alternative—a God who can be completely comprehended by a finite mind—is not to be desired.
As ordinary ministers preach the supernatural word of God and the ordinary congregation receives it, we are all washed clean and built up. We are transformed and conformed.
It has provided a foundation and guidebook for navigating the complexities, evils, joys, and sorrows of life. It is so often a weary and weighty task, yet I am immensely thankful for God's truth as an anchor for my soul.
You’ll like this album if “maybe Jesus Walks was better than this sermon” has crossed your mind at least once.
If he's going to put out 4 or 5 volumes of covers between full-lengths, this would make a good double LP, and I'm already looking forward to the next volume.
So the question for us readers of these words is simple—can we identify the religious rubbish in our lives that provokes boasting and causes us to diminish Christ and our fellow believers?
The questions before us as we go forward are simple but challenging: will we throw sinners before God in judgment, or will we extend a hand of grace?