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Richard Halverson was Chaplain to the U.S. Senate 1981-1994. In a time of political animosity and electoral turmoil in the U.S.A., no matter what our personal convictions might be, his words are challenging. He wrote in 1982. One of the false assumptions – very...
LOSING YOUR FAITH
I have in my library a signed first edition of The Message of Galatians by John Stott, which he gave me for my birthday in 1970 (50 years ago). It contains twenty sermons he preached on Galatians in 1965-66. His book on preaching was published under the title Between...
A PRAYER FOR SINCERITY
Almighty God and Heavenly Father: Blessed is the person whom you choose and call to yourself. With you is mercy, redemption, assurance, forgiveness; You have lifted me, a prisoner, out of the dungeon of sin And pronounced my discharge, Not only in the courts of...
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE SUFFERING OF JESUS?
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered...
THRIVING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
One of my most rewarding resources during this pandemic is HEALTHY FAITH AND THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, edited by Kristi Mair and Luke Cawley. It contains 29 chapters by Christian authors and specialists on different aspects of the present challenges. The contributors...
THE LAUGHTER OF GOD
The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 2012 I visited the Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. The magnificent landscapes of Thomas Cole,...
THE DEFEAT OF DEATH
Psalm 16 is the third psalm used by Handel in Messiah. It is also used in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles by St. Peter (Acts 2) and St. Paul (Acts 13) to present the Gospel to their contemporaries. Why did they use this psalm? Jesus himself used...
THE BROKEN HEARTED
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
THE TEARS OF GOD
Handel uses four psalms in his oratorio The Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their...
FORGIVENESS OR REVENGE
Anglican Bishop Hassan Dequani-Tafti’s son Bahram was murdered by Islamic revolutionaries in Iran in 1989. He wrote “A Father’s Prayer on the Martyrdom of his Son”. It has become known world-wide, translated into many languages and made available in numerous books. O...
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