On parish missions, the care of souls, and all things Reformed
This is the next episode of the West Port Experiment podcast, featuring the Rev. D. Douglas Gebbie, minister of the Presbyterian Reformed Church of Chesley, Ontario. In this episode, we continue our discussion of Alexander Henderson, looking specifically at his Government and Order of the Church of Scotland. Our last episode dealt with the life […]
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CHAP. XII. Concerning what ought to be done by private persons, when Church-officers spare such as are scandalous. We come now to the last question proposed: namely, supposing that Church-officers should be defective in trying and censuring scandalous persons, what is the duty of private Christians in such a case? And whether, notwithstanding this, they […]
The tremendous, firsthand account of New England Puritan John Eliot’s mission to the Massachusett and Wampanoag Indians during the 17th century. Listen and be blessed. Then, pray and go! Or, read the original print below. Visit also WPE Audio for more audio resources.
CHAP. VI. Concerning what is to be accounted satisfaction, or satisfying. The great question is, when a person appears, acknowledges his offense, and submits to a public rebuke, what is to be judged satisfactory, so that a Church judicatory may stop the process, rest satisfied, and admit the person to Church privileges as though the […]
CHAPTER VIII. Showing What Is Especially Required of Christians When Offenses Abound It is useful to inquire what is especially required of Christians living in times when offenses greatly abound, and when there is an unusual readiness both to give offense and to take it. It would be impossible to descend into every particular case. […]
The following chapter comes from Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. I remember reading this chapter after a season of pastoral burnout and finding it such a tonic to my weary soul. It certainly also speaks to the sensitivity that such great men had for the real struggles of emotional and mental health from a […]
Just finished Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. A really thought-provoking, short non-fiction book that explores how bankrupt modern society is in meeting our deeper needs for identity, social belonging, and human purpose. Writing from firsthand experience in warfare, he reflects on the paradox of how men actually find hidden blessings in their battlefield “bands of […]
The following taken from Book 2, Chapter 4 of Aaron’s Rod Blossoming, pp. 184-194. * * * * CHAP. IV. Of the agreements and differences between the nature of the Civil and of the Ecclesiastical Powers or Governments. Having now observed what our opposites yield to us, or we to them, I shall for further […]