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Footwashing, Maundy Thursday, and Coronavirus…

I was thinking last night about our Lenten / Easter theme for this year. We planned on illustrating relationship and service to others through the foot washing.  We were really trying to get people to think about how Christ restored our right relationship to God, our right worship, etc.  We wanted to get people to think about what it would be like without Christ.  The primary symbol of that was to be the stripping of the sanctuary on Thursday night,…

Crisis, Christ, and Confidence Episode 3: Coronavirus and Divine Judgment

Is the Coronavirus an act of judgment from God? How should we understand the function of the Coronavirus in this broken world? Watch Drs. Gregory Poland, David Garner, and Peter Lillback answer these questions and more in episode 3 of “Crisis, Christ, and Confidence.” A new episode of this series will be available at www.wts.edu/ccc every week. From: Westminster Theological Seminary  

How Can a Christian Deal With Loss?

How can a Christian deal with loss? Nancy Guthrie shares how faith can give us perspective when we are experiencing grief and loss. For more     #Wisdom Wednesdays rts.edu/site/wisdomwednesday/

Praying Scripture POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the April 5, 2020, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on Prayer.  I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Praying Scripture.” The main Scripture for the day is Matthew 6:9-13.   (Pick and choose from the many resources and options, which I have…

A Prayer to the God who yearns and waits for us – Regent Theological Seminary

Prayer The God who yearns & waits for us Heavenly Father, Guardian of the brokenhearted, Saviour of the crushed in spirit: We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness. We cleave to you in all the ways that we are able. We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you, and then we find ourselves among your people who are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise. So we give thanks that you are the God who yearns and…

Prayer Resource from Cornwall Alliance

Here is a prayer guide for your devotional life (from Cornwall Alliance): First, begin with praise and thanksgiving to God for His wisdom, power, and love displayed in all of creation; His faithfully preserving all of creation; His just judgments in creation for man’s sin; His plan to reconcile all of the cosmos to Himself through Christ’s death and resurrection; His provision for the salvation of sinners through the atoning death and vindicating resurrection of Christ; His making men and…