One Eternal Day

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In "Confessing Sin, Then and Now," an Anglican pastor dislikes some modern liturgical innovations. I think he's right. The ...

An Easter prayer: Brightness of God's glory and exact image of God's person, whom death could not conquer nor the tomb imprison, as ...

It was Samuel Johnson's practice to mark each New Year by composing a personal prayer. This is the one for 1772: ALMIGHTY GOD , who h...

Last weekend, I attended a memorial service for a Christian believer who was a pastor and a friend. I came across this today: from the The 1...

The incoming President's favorite pastor was Norman Vincent Peale, the author of The Power of Positive Thinking (1952, but still in pri...

Samuel Johnson on New Year's Eve, 1749/50: ALMIGHTY GOD , by whose will I was created, and by whose Providence I have been sustained, by...

Advent began this past weekend. Walter Russell Mead reflected on the meaning of Advent in "The Coming" : .... If there is no...

From a few years ago, a few thoughts about the significance of All Saints' Day: For over a thousand years, many Christians have celebrat...

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living : If your case be brought to the last extremity, at the pit's brink,...

1 Father, hear the prayer we offer:     not for ease that prayer shall be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives cou...

A post from a few years ago: I've been thinking about Christian funerals recently, and especially the "celebration of the life...

A prayer for Memorial Day: O King and Judge of the nations: We remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our armed forc...

ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the...

Samuel Johnson, New Year's Day, 1772: ALMIGHTY GOD , who hast permitted me to see the beginning of another year, enable me so to rece...

Advent is a time about the "already but not yet": the time between the coming of Messiah and the time when He comes again. Three p...

O Lord, my maker and protector, who hast graciously sent me into this world to work out my salvation, enable me to drive from me all such un...

From The Book of Common Prayer (1928), a good prayer for Independence Day: ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our herita...

Alan Jacobs referred today to this interesting post by a Church of England vicar: The Book of Common Prayer is enjoying a revival in the C...

An Easter prayer: Brightness of God's glory and exact image of God's person, whom death could not conquer nor the tomb imprison, as ...