Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

By its very laws, government, whether it likes it or not, exercises influence on the moral development of the nation.

Abraham Kuyper

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Justification is the very hinge and pillar of Christianity. An error about justification is dangerous, like a defect in a foundation. Justification by Christ is a spring of water of life. To have the poison of corrupt doctrine cast into this spring is damnable. Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

One ought to make good use of one’s intellect in order to live a morally good life. Stated another way, one ought to lead an intellectual life. But many of us do not lead intellectual lives. Many of us are anti-intellectual. Many do not use their intellects beyond those used they cannot avoid – its cooperation with the sensory powers in acts of perception, memory, and imagination.

Mortimer Adler

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.

Marcus Aurelius

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

The hasty person will never find joy, nor one predisposed to anger happiness, nor the impatient one a friend.

Arabic Proverb

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Q: What do we pray for in the sixth petition?

A: In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin, or support and deliver us when we are tempted.

Question 106 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McClendon

Q: What do we pray for in the fifth petition?

A: In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, we pray that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins; which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.

Question 105 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Q: What do we pray for in the fourth petition?

A: In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing with them.

Question 104 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Q: What do we pray for in the third petition?

A: In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things, as the angels do in heaven.

Question 103 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Q: What do we pray for in the second petition?

A: In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come, we pray that Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed; and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced, ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it; and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.

Question 102 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism