Sometimes I feel the effective Christian life is confined to one personality type. Or, at the very least, that it’s not fair that one personality type seems ideally suited for reaching out. Sammy Rhodes gives some relief with an observation that the Good News is embodied in a community of all types of people. One …
Scott Hubbard writes about William Cowper, who on New Year’s Day 1773 was about to slip into a depression that would remain for the rest of his life. Anticipating that descending darkness Cowper wrote the hymn God Moves In A Mysterious Way. From Hubbard’s article: … before night fell on Cowper’s soul, he sat in …
I’ve been dabbling a little bit in personal fitness for a while now, so I’ve got lots of respect for those who exercise. This article by Connor Gwin on Mockingbird interacts with popular thought about why gyms and exercise fill a space in some modern lives that used to be filled by church. It wants …
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 33 88. Q. How many parts are there to the true repentance or conversion of man? A. Two: the dying of the old self and the birth of the new. 89. Q. What is the dying of the old self? A. Sincere sorrow over our sins and more and more …
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