Resources by Charlie Wingard

A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, September 27 (based on Psalm 134)

By Charlie Wingard · September 26, 2015 · 0 Comments
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CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, however greatly the affairs and cares of this world do trouble, molest, and avert us from rendering unto thee that honour and obedience due unto thee, yet we beseech thee that, forgetting all other things, we may have no other aim but to praise and glorify thee all the days of our life, for the great benefits which we continually receive at thy hands, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 136.

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A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, September 20 (based on Psalm 119)

By Charlie Wingard · September 19, 2015 · 0 Comments
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MOST MERCIFUL GOD, Author of all good things, who hast given thy holy commandments unto us, whereby we should direct our life, imprint them in our hearts by thy Holy Spirit; and grant that we may so renounce all our fleshly desires, and all the vanities of this world, that our whole pleasure and delight may be in thy law; that we, being always governed by thy holy Word, may in the end attain to that eternal salvation which thou has promised through Christ Jesus, thy Son. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 125.  

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Returning to an Old Friend: William S. Plumer on Psalms

By Charlie Wingard · September 19, 2015 · 0 Comments
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Tomorrow evening at First Presbyterian Church Yazoo City I begin a series of sermons on the Psalms. One of the highlights of preparing to preach Psalm 1 is returning to an old and trusted friend, William S. Plumer’s Psalms: A Critical and Expository Commentary with Doctrinal and Practical Remarks. His exposition is faithful to the text, and his doctrinal and practical remarks are full of  the pastoral wisdom that makes for solid sermon applications. Since I purchased this book in the early 1990s, it has been my “go to” commentary on Psalms. Nuggets from this week’s reading: “The sum of [Psalm 1] is that the just and he alone is blessed.” “However tried and afflicted, every servant of God has vast treasures of good things in…

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Study When It’s Time to Study

By Charlie Wingard · September 18, 2015 · 0 Comments
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“Study when it’s time to study,” writes Baptist preacher, H.B. Charles, Jr. “You know how it goes. When you finally get to the study, you are blitzed by the temptation to do other things. By all means, resist that temptation. When it’s time to study, study. Don’t web surf or answer emails or play with your smartphone or clean your desk or organize your books or . . . . You get the point. Put your behind in the seat. Get to work. Don’t procrastinate. Pray. Read. Study. Think. Write. You have no right to complain about the time you do not have if you do not use the time you have wisely. Remind yourself that you will never get…

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A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, September 13 (based on Psalm 117)

By Charlie Wingard · September 12, 2015 · 0 Comments
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O GOOD LORD, unto whom appertains all glory and magnificence, grant us that by the preaching of thy holy Evangel thou mayest be acknowledged throughout the whole earth; so that all nations may have a perfect feeling of thy mercies, and that thy faithfulness may be more and more manifested, through Christ Jesus, thy Son. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 124.

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