Resources by Charlie Wingard
A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, May 31 (based on Psalm 77)
“ETERNAL GOD, the only refuge of comfortless creatures, hear our payers and requests, and forget not to show thy mercy upon us. Lord, give us grace in such sort to acknowledge thy marvelous works which thou hast shown to thy people in times past, that we may be more and more confirmed in the assurance of thy goodness, by the which thou hast freely elected and adopted us in thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ. AMEN.” – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 94.
Read MoreBearing the Heaviest Afflictions
Charles Simeon (1759-1836) argues that “it is under sufferings that the superiority of the Christian’s state is to be seen to the greatest advantage.” He comments on Romans 8:28: “The Christian may be called to bear the heaviest afflictions; but they shall bring him to consideration, stir him up to prayer, wean him from the world, and lead him to seek his rest above — He maybe assaulted also with the most distressing temptations; but these will shew him the evil of his heart, and the faithfulness of his God: they will also teach him to sympathize with his tempted brethren: even death itself will be among the number of the things that shall prove beneficial to him. This is the most…
Read MoreThe pageantry of the 1936 Berlin Olympics was a triumph for Hitler’s propaganda machine. Evidences of the Reich’s virulent anti-semitism were swept from the streets. Gone for the duration of the games were the “Jews not welcome” signs in stores and shops. On display were the orderliness, architectural grandeur, and growing military muscle of Nazi Germany. Berlin would be the last Olympic contest until 1948, long after Hitler was dead and the city reduced to rubble. Among the athletes competing in Berlin were Americans who became famous for not only their athletic skill, but their unconquerable courage: Jesse Owens, Glenn Cunningham, Louis Zamperini, and the men of the United States Olympic rowing team. Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat tells the story of…
Read MoreTake a few minutes of your Memorial Day to listen to the story of Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. Truthful, earnest, and orderly speeches, backed up by the speaker’s physical and moral courage, compel an audience’s attention. Seargeant Benavidez exemplifies each of these virtues as he speaks after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Of the many speeches I showed my rhetoric and debate students at Westminster Christian Academy, this one became a class favorite. After President Reagan’s summary of his battlefield valor, Mr. Benavidez speaks.
Read MoreA Prayer for the Lord’s Day, May 24 (based on Psalm 73)
O SWEET AND GRACIOUS LORD, grant us of thy grace that we never be so envious of the prosperous estate of the ungodly that we decline from the right course of the godly, but that we may be more and more assured of thy goodness and providence, in such sort that our whole aim may be to be perpetually conjoined with thee, through thy only Son, Jesus Christ our Savior. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 91.
Read MoreA Prayer for the Lord’s Day, May 17 (based on Psalm 69)
“ETERNAL FATHER, and God of all consolation, who to make satisfaction for our sins didst cast down thy only Son to extreme pains and anguish, and hast ordained thy church to pass by the same way of affliction, we beseech thee most fervently that, forasmuch as we are destitute of all help of men, we may so much the more be assured of thy mercy and goodness, that we may praise the same before all creatures, both now and forevermore. AMEN.” – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 88.
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