Resources by Charlie Wingard
‘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)
Read More119. What is the Lord’s Prayer? Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 125. What is the fourth petition? “Give us this day our daily bread;” that is, be pleased to provide for all our bodily need, so that we may thereby acknowledge that You are the only fountain of all good, and that without Your blessing neither our care and labor,…
Read More“O LORD Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit ever, one God, world without end. Amen.” – 1662 Book of Common Prayer
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