Thanks for your prayers
Charlie came home from the hospital last Thursday after 2 weeks in the NICU. We appreciate your prayers.
Charles Marshall Priest
Our son, Charles Marshall Priest, was born at 11:00 am on Friday, December 26. He is still in the NICU but is progressing steadily. We are optimistic that he may be able to go home with us this weekend. We appreciate any and all prayers.
The End of Advent
Joseph Bottum on The End of Advent: [T]he endless roar of untethered Christmas anticipation is close to drowning out the disciplined anticipation of Advent. And when Christmas itself arrives, it has begun to seem a day not all that different from any other. Oh, yes, church and home to a big dinner. Presents for the [...]
A poached egg or the devil
From C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity: A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil [...]
Eschatological Worship (a few thoughts)
All worship is eschatological. All true worship remembers the past, experiences the present and looks toward the future. In that sense, eschatology should shape how we see our gathered worship of God. It is in worship – in hearing the Word preached, in prayer, in exhorting each other, in affirming our faith, in receiving the [...]
God Be Merciful to Me
Here is a very quick and dirty arrangement of Chris Miner’s tune for “God Be Merciful to Me”. I’ve done some harmony adjustment that makes the song more of a confessional, in my opinion. I obviously cranked out this arrangement after listening to “Summer Skin” by Death Cab for Cutie one too many times. There [...]