Resources by Charlie Wingard

Sunday, November 17, at Westminster

By Charlie Wingard · November 16, 2013 · 0 Comments
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Click here for tomorrow’s bulletin. MORNING WORSHIP (9:30):  Charlie Wingard, preaching Ecclesiastes 6:7-7:14 “Living Wisely in a Broken World” (5) ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL (11:00): 1. READING THE BIBLE BIBLICALLY A study of how to use the structure, genres, and themes of the Bible to read it with more wonder, depth and understanding. Having considered how these aspects are seen throughout Scripture as a whole, we will apply them to reading select books of the Old and New Testaments. 2. INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS Using the Westminster Larger Catechism, the class surveys important moral decisions that contemporary Christians face. Issues include the role of God’s law in a believer’s life, the sanctification of the Lord’s day, abortion, capital punishment, end of…

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Westminster’s Tuesday Morning Men’s Group

By Charlie Wingard · November 14, 2013 · 0 Comments
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Next Tuesday, November 19, my men’s group begins discussing Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book About a (Really) Big Problem. We meet at 7 a.m. at Blue Plate Cafe on Governor’s Drive. Nat Causey leads the group. If you need a copy, let Nat or me know. From the back cover: “Just one look at our jam-packed schedules tells us how hard it can be to strike a well-reasoned balance between doing nothing and doing it all. “That?s why award-winning author and pastor Kevin DeYoung addresses the busyness problem head on in his newest book, Crazy Busy – and not with the typical arsenal of time management tips, but rather with the biblical tools we need to get to the…

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

By Charlie Wingard · November 13, 2013 · 0 Comments
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No person contributed more to the development of Western Christianity than Augustine of Hippo, born November 13, 354. On this anniversary of his birth, why not read John Piper’s excellent biographical sketch?  If you would like to read some of Augustine’s works, begin with his Confessions, perhaps the world’s most influential theological and spiritual autobiography. My favorite biography is Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown. Last year, I reread this splendid book to prepare for my book club’s discussion of The City of God. I also read with profit Henry Chadwick’s Augustine of Hippo: A Life, a much briefer biography than Brown’s and an excellent introduction to his life and work. From Augustine: “Two cities have been formed by two…

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A Gospel Encounter that Changed the World

By Charlie Wingard · November 11, 2013 · 0 Comments
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In the first half of the 20th century, millions of Russians disappeared into the gulags of the Soviet police state. Many of these were condemned on trumped up charges. Unjustly declared enemies of the state, they became victims of communism’s cruel tyranny. Still, in the midst of horrible evil, faithful men proclaimed Christ. And one extraordinary encounter changed not only a man but also the world. James Montgomery Boice recalls: “One of the inmates of the notorious Russian prisons was a Jewish doctor by the name of Boris Nicholayevich Kornfeld. He was a political prisoner of the Stalinist era. But he was treated better than most simply because doctors were scarce. Guards got sick as well as prisoners, and no…

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Martin Luther (1483-1546)

By Charlie Wingard · November 10, 2013 · 0 Comments
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Martin Luther was born November 10, 1483. On this anniversary of his birth enjoy these reflections of John Piper on Luther’s life and work. If you are interested in reading one of Luther’s works, I would recommend starting with Bondage of the Will.  My favorite biography of Luther is Luther: The Reformer by James M. Kittelson. I’ve also profited from reading  Roland Bainton and Heiko Oberman’s biographies. Martin Luther exhorted ministers of the word: “Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture … The call is: watch, study attend to reading. In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you…

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From the Heidelberg Catechism for the Lord’s Day, November 10

By Charlie Wingard · November 10, 2013 · 0 Comments
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116. Why is prayer necessary for Christians? Because it is the chief part of thankfulness which God requires of us, and because God will give His grace and Holy Spirit only to those who earnestly and without ceasing ask them of Him, and render thanks unto Him for them. 117. What belongs to such prayer which is acceptable to God and which He will hear? First, that with our whole heart we call only upon the one true God, who has revealed Himself to us in His Word,  for all that He has commanded us to ask of Him; second, that we thoroughly know our need and misery, so as to humble ourselves in the presence of His divine majesty;…

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