Quote for the Day:

“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
–  Benjamin Franklin

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Quote for the Day:

The Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent
BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed [...]

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The cup that we bless …

Being one of the few full time ministers among the country churches in our presbytery has meant that I’ve often had the task of helping serve many of our smaller country churches when they are without a pastor.  This has meant getting lost on many rambling county roads, preaching to congregations of 2-4 people at [...]

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Quote of the Day:

Nothing is so deadening to the divine as an habitual dealing with the outsides of holy things.
-George Macdonald

(Image: communion by two stout monks)

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Quote of the Day:

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
-St. Augustine

(Image: colorado sunrise by teetabayou)

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CHAP. XXII. The Parson in Sacraments.

THe Countrey Parson being to administer the Sacraments, is at a stand with himself, how or what behaviour to assume for so holy things. Especially at Communion times he is in a great confusion, as being not only to receive God, but to break, and administer him. Neither findes he any issue in this, but [...]

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CHAP. XXI. The Parson Catechizing.

(Note: Catechises is Christian instruction in doctrine and morality, usually through a set of questions and answers known as a catechism.)
THe Countrey Parson values Catechizing highly: for there being three points of his duty, the one, to infuse a competent knowledge of salvation in every one of his Flock; the other, [...]

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Christ Jesus Victor

Anthony Esolen posted a nice commentary on Christ the King Sunday at the Touchstone blog.

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Westboro Baptist

I saw that the Westboro Baptist Church has been ordered to pay nearly $11 million in a lawsuit to the father of a soldier who’se funeral they protested.
Westboro is the church that runs the “God hates fags” website. They have recently been having protests at funerals of soldiers who have died in Iraq. [...]

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Willow Creek’s “Confession”

File this under the “I could have told you that” category.  (Article Here)
Willow Creek mega church as done a self-study and realized that their seeker sensitive approach draws huge crowds….but doesn’t make strong disciples.
I would think that was pretty obvious.  If your program is based only on “felt needs” and meeting people where they are, [...]

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