Resources by Charlie Wingard
1. DECEMBER 22: SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP (9:30): Charlie Wingard, preaching Matthew 1:18-25 “God with Us” No Sunday School or evening worship this week. Click here for the Sunday, December 22 bulletin. 2. DECEMBER 24 Christmas Eve Service (4 P.M): Location: Providence Baptist Church, 1355 Douglass Rd NW, Huntsville Click here for the Christmas Eve Bulletin.
Read MoreHow can I pray best for our church’s missionaries? Several ago I read this stirring challenge from Dr. Ralph Davis, former pastor of Woodland Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi: “’Lord, bless the missionaries’ is a cop-out prayer. What do we specifically mean by ‘bless’? In what particular way do we wish God to bless them? And are the missionaries one blurred mass of unknowns or do they have names? Too frequently one suspects that ‘bless the missionaries’ means something like, ‘Be nice to those folks we don’t really know doing things we don’t want to do in places where we don’t want to be.’ If you want to begin praying thoughtfully for your missionaries, you may begin simply by thinking who…
Read More‘If you were to ask me to give a definition of a Christian I should say that he is on who, since believing in Christ, feels himself to be the happiest man in the world and longs for everyone else to be equally happy.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Ian H. Murray’s The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981 (Banner of Truth, 2013), 53.
Read More“Some time ago, a young man who had recently been inducted to his first charge as minister asked me, ‘What is the most important thing that I can do?’ My immediate answer to him was, ‘Pray for a praying people.’” – Eric J. Alexander, What Is Biblical Preaching? (P&R: 2008), 31.
Read More(I wrote this post three years ago after my father died. Today would have been his 90th birthday.) The most important thing I appreciate about my Dad is that, like his heavenly Father, he loved the orphan. He worked in Arkansas and Missouri orphanages, and midway through 1958 he and Mom took me into their home. Dad became the most influential person in my life – my father, pastor, adviser, and friend. So, I played no part in the process of the most important decision ever made about me – my adoption. A good truth for a future Presbyterian minister to keep in mind. I’ve often wondered what my life would have been like had I remained with my biological…
Read More“Christianity is a very exclusive and dogmatic faith,” asserts Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this 1970 interview with Joan Bakewell. Vigorous, forthright, and gracious, Dr. Lloyd-Jones proves himself an exemplary apologist for the Christian gospel. (HT: John Ross)
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