Resources by Charlie Wingard
GOOD AND GRACIOUS GOD, who desirest nothing but the health and salvation of them that trust in thee, extend thy goodness and infinite mercies upon us thy poor servants, and put away all our iniquities, that we, being governed by thy Holy Spirit, may walk uprightly in thy holy commandments, without any wavering; that in the end we may enjoy the bliss obtained for us by thy Son, Christ Jesus. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 57.
Read MoreTheodore Dalyrmple on the consequences our culture’s paedo-centrism: “Anyone who has observed a mother in a shop or supermarket solicitously and even anxiously bending over a three- or four year-old child to ask him what he would like for his next meal will understand the sovereignty over choice that is now granted to those who have neither experience nor powers of discrimination enough to exercise it on the basis of anything other than the merest whim, without regard to the consequences. By abdicating their responsibility in this fashion, in the name of not passing on their own prejudices or preconceptions to their children, and not imposing their own view of what is right upon them, they enclose their children within the…
Read More“Divorced from the holiness of God, sin is merely self-defeating behavior or a breach in etiquette. Divorced from the holiness of God, grace is merely empty rhetoric, pious window dressing for the modern technique by which sinners work out their own salvation. Divorced from the holiness of God, our gospel becomes indistinguishable from any of a host of alternative self-help doctrines. Divorced from the holiness of God, our public morality is reduced to little more than an accumulation of trade-offs between competing private interests. Divorced from the holiness of God, our worship becomes mere entertainment. The holiness of God is the very cornerstone of Christian faith, for it is the foundation of reality. Sin is defiance of God’s holiness, the…
Read MoreAlthough, O GOD OF ALL CONSOLATION AND COMFORT, thou sufferest us for a little season to be afflicted diverse ways, and makest us (as it were) to be the outcasts of the world, yet, forasmuch as we have our only trust in thy goodness, we beseech thee to assist us and deliver us from all those troubles that distress us, that, in the midst of thy holy congregation, we may render thee hearty praises and thanks, through Jesus Christ thy only Son. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 55.
Read MoreIn today’s Preaching Lab, senior David Irving delivered his sermon “Do Not Sin” from 1 John 2:1-2. David is pastoral intern at Raymond Presbyterian Church in Raymond, Mississippi. The congregation has issued a call to David to become its next pastor upon his May graduation and approval by Presbytery. Churches throughout Mississippi welcome RTS students to their pulpits each Lord’s Day. Their kindness offers invaluable preaching experience to our students, and is one of the many ways churches and RTS partner together to prepare men for gospel ministry.
Read MoreEach preacher has to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of preaching without notes, with notes, or with a manuscript. In a letter to a young minister, Thomas Charles of Wales counsels: “You must be the best judge whether you had better preach extempore or not, as you find liberty and ease in the work. If you cannot deliver your thoughts distinctly, clearly, accurately and fluently, I think you had better read, or at least use notes.” Nevertheless, about the value of writing the sermon Charles is dogmatic: “As to writing your sermons, however you may deliver them, I think there can be no demur about that: and always write every sermon, or whatever else you may write, with all the care and…
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