SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP (9:30): Nathan Eldridge, preaching Psalm 37:1-22 “Delighting in God” No Sunday School or evening worship this week. Click here for the Sunday, December 29 bulletin.
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. 126. What is the fifth petition? “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;” that is, be pleased, for the sake of Christ’s blood, not to impute to us miserable sinners our manifold transgressions, nor the evil which always cleaves to us; as we also find this…
Read More“Lord, come among us, we pray, with your power and help us with your great might so that, although we are hindered by our sins and wickedness from running the race set before us, your bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us through the work of your Son our Lord to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be honour and glory now and for ever. Amen.”- An English Prayer Book
Read More1. 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)
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,…
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