The first question and answer from the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) serves as a great reminder of our true comfort and hope at Christmas.

For our Advent series through the exilic psalms, I was reading through Augustine’s expositions of the Psalms. His comments on prayer from Ps 77:2 struck me.

As a church staff, we read through and discussed Paul David Tripp’s Lead this fall. Chapter 9 on identity prompted me to pray this prayer based on Philippians 2.

In The Missionary Movement in Christian History, Andrew Walls comments on the origin and nature of the evangelical movement in the eighteenth century: “Historic evangelicalism is a religion of protest against a Christian society that is not Christian enough. . . . The evangelical bugbears were less professed infidelity than professed Christianity without the ‘distinguishing doctrines of the gospel’” (81).