Month: March 2011
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Psalm 57
Today’s Reading is Psalm 57. Verse 6 has become a proverb in many languages: “Wer anderen eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein” “Tel est pris qui croyait prendre” “Ko drugome jamu kopa, pada sam u nju” “Wie een kuil graaft voor een ander, valt er zelf in” “Kto pod kim dołki kopie, sam w nie…
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Hymns that stand the test of time
Christianity Today put together a list of 27 hymns that have been top-sellers since the 1870s. The Inventory surveyed for this essay totals 4,905 hymns, found in successive hymnal editions of the following six mainline Protestant denominations: * Anglican (Episcopal), four editions, from 1892 * American Baptist, four editions, from 1883 * Congregational (United Church…
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A Day in the Life of a Pastor
Pastors just lead worship for about an hour on Sundays, right? Well, here is how my day is going today – an almost live-blogging event. 6:45 “Daddy, diaper!” 7:15 “Daddy, pancakes!” 8:15 Shower 8:45 Scraping the ice off my car 9:00 AA group forgot to put the church trash cans out in the street 9:15…
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Psalm 51
Today’s Reading is Psalm 51. To remarkable things here: Verse 5 – “I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.” A powerful reminder of the fact that our actions cannot be sin. We are sinners by birth, before we even did anything. Nothing…
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The Fires of Hell
Tim Challies explains what he’d had to deny to deny hell. I in turn will take a little peek at Scripture: Let’s start with Jesus’ good advise: Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the…