Tag Archives: Prayer

Confident Prayer: Mockingbirds and the Goodness of God

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I’ve been the Pastor of a small Presbyterian church in rural Kentucky for over a year now. In my time here, I’ve developed a lot of wonderful relationships with beloved saints, preached through Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians and most of Ecclesiastes, taken part in numerous other ministries through the church and in the community, etc. In other words, by God’s grace, I’ve done a lot of what would be expected of a Pastor.

But, unbeknownst to many of my people, I’ve also been doing something else – I’ve become over time a casual ornithologist; that is to say, I’ve been considering the sparrows, or, to be more precise, the mockingbirds. Continue reading →

Pastoral Letter (04/09/20)

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To my dear people,

I have been your Pastor for over a year now, and if you were to have asked me when I was leaving Pittsburgh if I thought in a year’s time I would be telling my people to stay home instead of coming to church, the answer would be a definite “no”. And that would have been foolish of me. We never know what is going to happen in the next year, month, week, day, hour, or moment. We make our plans, but it is the Lord Whose decree will stand. So, here we are, in the midst of this unexpected epidemic; and the best thing that we can do for ourselves and for each other is to be apart for now. Continue reading →

Praying Our Theology: The Trinity

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Perhaps the most distinguishing doctrine of the Christian faith is the belief in God as Trinity. Sadly, it is also one of the most neglected of Christian doctrines; indeed, it is lamentable that so many Christians do not have a basic understanding of Who God is as Trinity. Because of this, many end up worshiping a generic deity whom they call “God”, and who has nothing to do with the God Who Is – He Who has revealed Himself in the written Word of the Old and New Testaments. God is Who He has revealed Himself to be – God in Trinity – and thus, when we pray we must be cautious that we are addressing Him as He is, or else we’re idolaters. Continue reading →