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“Tomorrow is the devil’s day, but today is God’s. Satan cares not how spiritual your intentions may be, and how holy your resolutions, so long as they are fixed for tomorrow.” – J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men. 1865 (Amityville, NY: Calvary Press, 2000), 7.
Read MoreMy remarks today at the dedication of Westminster Presbyterian Church’s new sanctuary in Huntsville, Alabama. ___ Today we celebrate a milestone – the dedication of your new sanctuary. Milestone achievements don’t come easily. This one hasn’t. You’ve made it here because you’ve done thousands of small things right – the thousands of quiet and loving and faithful acts of Christian care you’ve given each other. Most of these had nothing to do with the building you dedicate today. But without them we would not be here. The foundations of your sanctuary were laid not two years but six decades ago when Paul and Loraine Alexander devoted their lives to building a church and school that would serve the people of…
Read MoreToday Seth Starkey, Reformed University Campus Minister at Belhaven University, helped my RTS Worship class think through issues of worship in RUF large groups. He has proved a valuable resource and friend to our students.
Read MoreReading books and conversations about books are two of life’s finest pleasures. Add to the mix RTS Jackson students and spouses, and you have the makings for a perfect evening. Last night was the first of what Lynne and I hope will be many RTS book club meetings. After a chili diner, we discussed Jason Roberts A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became the World’s Greatest Traveler. My reflections on the book are here. I am grateful to students Justin Jones-Fosu and Ashley Williams for suggesting the club. In our “Christian Life in a Secular World Course,” reading Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death prompted conversations about the need to read books purely for enjoyment and personal edification, and in our situation, texts that…
Read MoreI love to read and many of the books I enjoy were recommended to me in conversations with friends. In that spirit, I list below the books I completed in 2015. Several stand out: My favorite read this year was Donald Macleod’s Christ Crucified. Christian ministers who “preach Christ crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:23) will do so with renewed conviction as they take to heart this splendid exposition of the doctrine of the atonement. Archibald Alexander advised his students to read annually The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded. My return to Owen’s classic proved a blessing to my soul, and I need to read it more often, if not once a year. Bruce Gordon’s Calvin is a masterpiece, and…
Read More“ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.” –1662 Book of Common Prayer MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE WINGARDS!
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