by Brian | Sep 15, 2012 | Hymns
A hymn by Gerard Manley Hopkins: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;...
by Brian | Sep 14, 2012 | Book Recommendations, Spiritual Life
Mike Focht read this to me the other day. It’s by a guy named William Law, who (as you can tell by his language) wrote in the 1700s, and he found it in From the Library of A.W. Tozer: Selected Writers who Influenced His Spiritual Journey. It’s not really...
by Brian | Sep 13, 2012 | Events
The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek, but really, this weekend’s Prophecy Conference here at the church building will be a great time for us to come and get a needed look at things like: How and why we (at Calvary) see scripture’s trachings on the end...
by Brian | Sep 12, 2012 | Spiritual Life
Saw this yesterday and thought it was very appropriate for us. Beware the temptation of allowing embarrassement over who we were as younger Christians eat away at (what should be) our maturing thinking, and believing, today… I recently ran into a woman who had...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2012 | Monday Study Notes
Last night we continued our study through 1 Peter. Here’s the outline: Peter takes the concepts he was working with in the first chapter and a half of the letter and applies them to our most fundamental, everyday relationships. In 2:9-12 we really get a synopsis...