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"May my teaching drop as the rain... like gentle rain upon the tender grass" Deuteronomy 32:2

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comfort

I Long to Be Comforted, But Where Will I Find Comfort?

May 10, 2025

Life has a way of making us feel uncomfortable. I once attended a summer wedding in a farm meadow. It was oppressively hot and humid that day. It wasn’t the best day

Jonathan L. Shirk Jonathan L. Shirk
family devotions

Enhancing the Lord's Day through Worship Connected + Household Worship Guide Ezra 1

May 08, 2025

Friday’s here. Jump and cheer. Shabbat is coming. … Hurray! Shabbat is here! So begins the children’s book, Shabbat is Coming! Do we have that attitude about Sunday, the Lord’s Day? It’s Thursday, Sunday’s coming!

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood

Living between D-Day and VE Day

May 08, 2025

Christians have often used the gap between D-Day and VE Day as an illustration of the time in which we're living now

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele

Nearer, My God, to Thee: Why I Sing Only Psalms in Worship

May 06, 2025

J. Gresham Machen, a hymn singing Presbyterian, is best known for his battle for orthodoxy in the early twentieth century Presbyterian Church. Machen wrote concerning “Nearer, My God, to Thee” and noted that

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman
family devotions

What was the sermon about yesterday? + Household Worship Guide 2 Chronicles 36

May 01, 2025

A key aim of this Worship Connected Household Worship Guide is preparation. How much better prepared would one be to hear and respond to the Word preached than to have reviewed the text to be preached and to have considered some of the areas to be addressed for three days prior to the preaching?

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood

The Wrong Template

April 30, 2025

Recently, at a seminary event, I was seated at a table with a missionary and his family. We were honoring the man, who was from Northern Ireland and had an Irish surname. Although

Barry York Barry York
family worship

Why Promote Household Worship + Household Worship Guide 2 Samuel 7

April 23, 2025

Fathers have over 6,500 opportunities to call their children, in their first 18 years, to come, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord (Psalm 34:11).

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood
debt

Forgive us our Debts

April 22, 2025

While some forms and conditions of employment can approximate slavery, an especially clear case of bondage in our current culture is debt slavery.

Kit Swartz

Bid Adieu. Machen Was Right.

April 22, 2025

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is the old mother Kirk of American Presbyterianism. In her lie all the treasures of the great names and institutions that made up American Presbyterianism and its powerful influence

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

Westminster's Antichrist Defended

April 21, 2025

In I John 2:18 the word "antichrist" is used for the first time the Bible: “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming,

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

Picture This...

April 18, 2025

I wonder how many children grow up with completely wrong ideas about Scripture simply because of a misleading picture in a story book. How often do they end up distorting what the text actually says?

Warren Peel Warren Peel

The Cry of Forsakenness

April 17, 2025

Mt. 27:46-49; Mk. 15:34-35 Text 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my

Andrew Kerr Andrew Kerr

3GT Episode 332: The Great Depastoring

April 17, 2025

Finally, the boys are all back behind their mics! Though it has been some time since they were all together, they pick right back up where they left off. After some banter and

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation
family devotions

Worship Connected takes too much time? + Household Worship Guide 1 Samuel 17

April 16, 2025

I'm convinced that a pastor can find it doable to add the weekly preparation of Worship Connected for the congregation, alongside the preparation for his preaching plan.

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood
Lord's Day

A Superstitious Easter

April 16, 2025

In the Areopagus, the Apostle Paul criticized the Athenians for being “very religious” or “superstitious” because their worship was directed toward the unknown—their worship was shaped by ignorance rather than the revelation of God.

Kyle Borg Kyle Borg
Liberalism

Bible stolen from unsuspecting churchgoers

April 15, 2025

Tragically, the Bible has been stolen from many churches without the people noticing

Stephen Steele Stephen Steele
family worship

Testimonials of Worship Connected + Family Worship Guide 1 Chronicles 1

April 09, 2025

I love how it keeps Sunday’s message alive all week. Focusing on what was preached and what will be preached assists me in keeping the message active in my daily life.

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood

Disciplining the Middle

April 08, 2025

Over the years, I have coached many basketball players at different levels. There are those little ones in the K-3rd grade league whom you teach the very basics, and I have helped skilled

Kyle E. Sims Kyle E. Sims
family devotions

Why Worship Connected + Family Worship Guide 2 Kings 4

April 02, 2025

If you find it useful to use these in your household/family worship, consider asking your pastor to speak to me about him developing something similar in your congregation.

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood

3GT Episode 331: Yes, SSA is SSA

March 31, 2025

Having had difficulty recording due to full schedules, and still down to two with Kyle away, at least Scott and Barry were available to man the mics. Given questions and feedback received from

Gentle Reformation Gentle Reformation
family worship

Worship Connected Family Worship Guide 1 Kings 8

March 26, 2025

We are considering Solomon's dedication of The House for the Lord's Name in 1 Kings 8.

Ed Blackwood Ed Blackwood

And all the people said… [inaudible mumble]

March 26, 2025

I probably said it at church today about 15 times. You might have said it slightly less. It’s a “religious” word. You find it translated in English Bibles 50 times, each time

Simon Arscott Simon Arscott
testimony to grace

Streams in the Desert

March 25, 2025

It is a profitable exercise to consider the many providences of God that He ordained to bring a person to faith in Christ.  This includes not only the proximate ones but also those that are more distant.  There are many long streams that supply the river of God’s saving grace into a person’s life.

Kit Swartz

Where Are the Men?

March 22, 2025

Mary Slessor (1848-1915), a Seceder missionary, serving in present day Nigeria closely followed the events of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. This conference was supposed to spur on the final

Nathan Eshelman Nathan Eshelman

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! (Happy St Patrick's Day)

March 20, 2025

St Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. So who was this guy?! What did he do that was such a big deal?

Warren Peel Warren Peel
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