I’ve heard there’s a placeOvershadowed by treesWhere black water cascades to the seaAnd leaves fall in grace,Catch the light and the breeze:Falling patterns of shadow and green. Here where I sitThe house creaks in the nightAnd lamps shine discordant with light.The night winds don’t fitWith the steel and black tar,Rattling windows left slightly ajar. Katherine …
Wouldn’t it be really handy if God provided a smartphone app that screened all your decisions, so you have certainty of not acting on a bad one. We might wish for God to provide that kind of certainty for every decision we make, because given our struggle with sin and living in a fallen world, …
It has been an eventful fall thus far, highlighted by two meetings with pastors exploring the RCUS. On October 26, Covenant East Classis President Dennis Luquette, Welcoming Committee members Wayne Johnson and Rev. Win Groseclose, and Revs. Sam Rodriguez and Ron Potter were privileged to spend four hours with pastors from two original German Reformed …
NONE IS INDISPENSABLE In the early days of the German Reformation it was mistakenly believed that Martin Luther, especially after he was abducted after the Council of Worms (he was “imprisoned” in the Wartburg Castle), had been martyred for Christ. Devastated by the rumors of Luther’s demise, and to express his profound grief and misery, the renowned Albrecht Durer, painter and printer (1471-1528), famously bemoaned in his diary: “I know not whether he lives or is murdered, but in any case he had suffered for the Christian truth. If we lose this man, who has written more clearly than any other in centuries, may God grant his spirit to another. His books should be held in great honor, and not burned as the emperor commands, but rather the books of his enemies, O God, if Luther is dead, who will henceforth explain to us the gospel? What might he not have written for us in the next ten or twenty years?” (my emphasis) but that was not the whole story. So profound was Durer’s unhappiness that he even hoped that Luther (emulating the pioneering work of the Lord Himself) might be resurrected. He wrote: “O Lord, who desirest before thou comest to judgment that as thy Son Jesus Christ had to die at the hands of the priests and rise from the dead and ascend to heaven, even should thy disciple Martin Luther be made conformable to him.”
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