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The Church is in a period of transition with decay being a univeral truth that not even the Church can escape. For the Christian, how can past glory fuel healthy longing for the present and the future?
Recent Entries
Theological SteakApril 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
The Good Ol' Days
July 11, 2008
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. Psalm 137:1
Kenneth MaCrae, a Scottish pastor in the early 1900's, left stacks of journals with his widow, and she passed them on to Ian Murray, who condensed them down into a wonderful 500 page Diary.
Recalling his youth, he could not help reminiscing over the powerful influence that faith matters played in his shaping. Recalls MaCrae:
"Fifty years ago the Sabbath was universally observed throughout Scotland, and whatever desecration there might have been was furtive and shame-faced. This being so, church-going was the order everywhere.
The writer remembers as a little boy how both sides of Earl Grey Street and Lothian Road in Edinburgh from 10:45 till 11:00 0'clock every Sabbath morning were thronged with a double stream of worshippers, the one stream flowing contrary to the other, but all the units comprising those streams converging upon their respective places of worship.
Then, with the cessation of the church bells, a strange hush fell upon the city, and on the streets not a single person was to be seen except perchance a straggler hurriedly pursuing his way to the house of God. Such an order of things may appear incredible to the city-dweller of today, but it was literally true.
In the country distircts a similiar sight was to be seen, the roads being almost black with people as practically the whole community exercised their privilege of waiting upon God in the courts of Zion....In the evangelical districts of the Highlands at any rate, family religion in those days was a reality, and the daily worship of God was a permanent feature of most homes." DIARY OF KENNETH MCRAE page 8
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him. Psalms 126:4-6
Kenneth MaCrae, a Scottish pastor in the early 1900's, left stacks of journals with his widow, and she passed them on to Ian Murray, who condensed them down into a wonderful 500 page Diary.
Recalling his youth, he could not help reminiscing over the powerful influence that faith matters played in his shaping. Recalls MaCrae:
"Fifty years ago the Sabbath was universally observed throughout Scotland, and whatever desecration there might have been was furtive and shame-faced. This being so, church-going was the order everywhere.
The writer remembers as a little boy how both sides of Earl Grey Street and Lothian Road in Edinburgh from 10:45 till 11:00 0'clock every Sabbath morning were thronged with a double stream of worshippers, the one stream flowing contrary to the other, but all the units comprising those streams converging upon their respective places of worship.
Then, with the cessation of the church bells, a strange hush fell upon the city, and on the streets not a single person was to be seen except perchance a straggler hurriedly pursuing his way to the house of God. Such an order of things may appear incredible to the city-dweller of today, but it was literally true.
In the country distircts a similiar sight was to be seen, the roads being almost black with people as practically the whole community exercised their privilege of waiting upon God in the courts of Zion....In the evangelical districts of the Highlands at any rate, family religion in those days was a reality, and the daily worship of God was a permanent feature of most homes." DIARY OF KENNETH MCRAE page 8
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him. Psalms 126:4-6
