One Eternal Day

From "Feeling Good Is Not the Point of Worship" : When does worship become more about the worshipers than the one being worshiped?...

From several years ago, excerpts from "Is It Time to Quit ‘Quiet Time’?" (likely behind a paywall). The problem isn't actuall...

I've been going through a filing cabinet and being reminded of things I haven't thought about for some time. In 1993, I served as Pr...

Old Testament Reading 23 “Am I a God at hand, declares the L ORD , and not a God far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so...

I have subscribed to The Daily Liturgy offered by Mere Orthodoxy . It is available as a morning newsletter, online, or as a podcast and can...

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

In 1988, I gave my pastor, Rev. Kevin Butler, a sealed envelope containing my "Funeral and Burial Instructions." Recently, his wif...

Alan Jacobs : In our church, during Lent we use the old language from the Book of Common Prayer , in which we confess ourselves to be “miser...

From "The World Needs to Recover True Lament. Christianity Can Teach It" In the psalms, lament is a structured form of prayer that...

From Augustine, "Exposition on Psalm 148": The subject of our meditation in this present life should be the praises of God; for th...

I grew up attending worship in a sanctuary built during the Great Depression . It replaced a building that burned down one Sabbath morning i...

Before his murder, I had paid little attention to Charlie Kirk. I largely dismissed him as just another part of Trump world. So I was surpri...

From a 1971 W.H. Auden letter critical of liturgical reform : As for the Psalms, they are poems, and to 'get' poetry, it should,...

Trevin Wax on certain welcome trends in Christian worship : ...[T]here’s a clear movement among younger generations toward rooted, establish...

Joni Eareckson Tada reflecting on the hymn "When We All Get to Heaven": .... Shining in brilliant beauty, with no more pain or sor...

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...

Re-posted, updated, from a very early post here : Know that the L ORD is God indeed; Without our aid He did us make; We are His flock, He ...

Re-posted because it is so right: Jonathan Aigner ponders "How To Choose Music For A Funeral." I agree with much (not all) that ...

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

Upon occasion, the congregation in my church would recite the Apostles Creed in the Sabbath morning service. That isn't typical of Bapt...