“Hence, the language he did use is full of meaning; as one said, ‘every word weighs a pound’” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 238).
Cremation and Burial
Introduction: Part of living together is learning to deal with the fact of death. In the early years of our congregation, we had almost no funerals. The reason we had few funerals in the early days of the church is that we were all babies. Now we have had a number of funerals, and given …
Thoroughly Gay
As we continue to meditate on the importance of self-control, and its relationship to other forms of free governance, we have to do more than consider control of appetites and emotions that we know to be a problem. We also need to exercise self-control when it comes to suppression of false virtues. One of the …
Each Morsel Contains Worlds
When we partake of this meal we are partaking of both the Lord’s disgrace, and His promised glory. “Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee; His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the …
A New Feature at ChristKirk.com
As you make your way to this blog regularly — and I do appreciate it — you ought not to do it to the detriment of other fine places to visit. ChristKirk.com has a lot of new features, and with more being added in the near future. One thing you’ll want to make sure not to …
Right on Schedule
“He that is ashamed in small things, will extend his pusillanimity to greater” (Herbert, The Country Parson, p. 110).
Romantic Rationalism
“The warm emotions are kept from exhaling, and becoming vapory and obscure, by the systematizing tendency of the logical faculty, and the hard, dry forms of logic are softened, and enlivened, by the vernal breath of the emotions” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 233).
A Central Part of the Labor
“The Country Parson, if there be any of his parish that hold strange Doctrines, useth all possible diligence to reduce them to the common Faith” (Herbert, The Country Parson, p. 89).
Snowflakes and Hell
Hell is certainly a terrible thing to envision, and for many Christians it is a difficult doctrine even to defend. Many believers resolve it at the end of the day by deciding we need someplace to put the Hitlers and the Stalins, and then deciding to not look too closely at it thereafter. But God …
Getting to the Inside
“When once all have learned the words of the Catechism, he thinks it the most useful way that a Pastor can take, to go over the same, but in other words: for many say the Catechism by rote, as parrots, without ever piercing into the sense of it” (Herbert, The Country Parson, p. 83).