||Psalm 51|| The words of this psalm can be used for words as our own prayers or, better, as the basis for shaping our own expressions in prayer.
Category Archive: Personal Spirituality
Hebrews 12:3-11 is full of guidance on how to respond to something called “the Lord’s discipline.”
||Pastoral Passage|| Our God is not ashamed to be called the God of his people of trustful and daring faith, because his promises are ready to be given to us – at his appointed time.
||Pastoral Passage|| John Owen’s three books on sin in believers are deep and practical. They are well worth the effort of reading.
||Pastoral Passage|| Our inheritance is ready and waiting for the day that is appointed. The question that matters is this: When that time comes, will you be ready and waiting?
||Pastoral Passage|| The ‘Beatitudes’ surprises us. The actions and attitudes commended are either humiliating, costly or emotionally draining.
||Pastoral Passage|| Although excessive brooding over one’s own sinfulness can be a sign of a melancholy temperament, it should be remembered that … in our day and age, we are not likely to overdo it.
||Pastoral Passage|| Real Christianity is difficult, and in our society increasingly foreign. What compels people to begin and continue this path?
||Pastoral Passage|| Sometimes (I confess) I have thought it would be nice if Christianity was more of a “civic” religion.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God announced that its arrival was imminent, and that we must drop everything in order to be ready and on board for it – that is, we must repent.
Chris Northcott 