Eating the Word of God
A meditation on the collect for Proper 28, which sets before us the purpose and beauty of scripture. This reflection is from a set of meditations I gave at a retreat at Calvary, Pittsburgh some years ago.
Category: scripture
Keep these words in your heart: scripture engagement, part 3
Can you imagine what our congregations would be like if we kept God’s words in our hearts? If we taught our children about God’s great love for us as revealed in the scriptures? If we publicly proclaimed the scriptures?
Keep these words in your heart: scripture engagement, part 2
If you want your church to really get to know the Bible, it doesn’t need to be financially costly. It just takes a willingness to devote the time and the focus to place the Bible front and center. You’ll see transformation, guaranteed.
Keep these words in your heart: scripture engagement, part 1
To get a congregation reading the scriptures will surely lead to transformation of individual lives and of the church itself. To learn the language of scripture is to find new ways to praise and to thank God, and that helps us live out our purpose, to glorify God.
Angels: setting the record straight
Our culture has an angel problem. Lots of people talk about angels. Guardian angel this, Hallmark card that. Angels appear on TV shows. Angels are regular features in all manner of popular culture, high...
Article VII: Of the Old Testament
This post is part of a Lenten series on the 39 Articles. Article VII: Of the Old Testament The Old Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New...
Article VI: Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation
This post is part of a Lenten series on the 39 Articles. Article VI. Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation Holy Scriptures containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever...