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Called From Where?
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #55 “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:11). When Paul tells …
The Need to Be Thankful
“One of the principle failings in atheism is that it leaves us with no one to thank for the countless blessings we encounter daily. This extends from trivial things, like the pleasure we get from pulling our socks up, to more amazing gifts, like food, and music, and marriage” (Letter From a Christian Citizen, p. …
The Pastoral Nature of Systematics
“Another reason it is hard to spend hours probinjg for the roots of coherence is that it is fundamentally unfashionable today to systematize things and seek for harmony and unity. This noble quest has fallen on hard times because so much artificial harmony has been discovered by impatient and nervous Bible defenders” (Piper, Brothers, We …
Caring for God’s Children
“Mark it well: the preacher has pastoral charge of God’s children; he must nurture ‘the divine nature’ in them; he must help them to conform to the image of God’s Son. What is a caretaker of animals or even of a garden like Paradise when compared with a shepherd of the flock of God, of …
The Church as a Conversationalist
In the medieval church, there was a sharp distinction between the worshiping clergy and the spectators found in the laity. The “action” was up front, behind what was called the rood screen, and the people of God assembled to watch—well, mostly to listen. They were permitted to be in the presence of something big, they …
Gathered It All to His Chest
“Jesus died and in that death He embraced the pollutions of a very polluted world. He took onto Himself the wrath and anger of God, and He did this so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. He gathered up a world full of hatred, adultery, treachery, rape, murder, envy, genocide, religious …
Poetic Ministry
“The great pressure on us today is to be productive managers. But the need of the church is for prayerful, spiritual poets. I don’t mean (necessarily) pastors who write poems. I mean pastors who feel the weight and glory of eternal reality even in the midst of a business meeting; who carry in their soul …
Growth From the Outside
“But man’s life, being finite, does not have its ground within itself and therefore is not sufficient unto itself, either ontologically or developmentally. In other words, it needs something extraneous to itself to be itself and to become itself more and more; that is, to grow” (Volbeda, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching, p. 34).
Cultural Engagement in the CREC
It is commonly known that people who worship together over an extended period of time tend to view the outside world in similar ways, and this is also true of CREC churches. Given the important role that political and cultural issues have in our era, it may be helpful to make a few comments. Cultural …