Fourth Sunday of Eastertide

Christopher Daugherty, Presbytery Intern

The story of God’s work of redemption is what Presbyterians often mean when we talk about “covenant.” We meant to account for how God, from the very beginning of human history, has been working out the redemption of a chosen people for his own glory.

Sean Michael Lucas, On Being Presbyterian

Third Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Second Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

Jesus' resurrection is not an isolated event that gives to men the warm confidence and hope of a future resurrection; it is the beginning of the eschatological resurrection itself. If we may use crude terms to try to describe sublime realities, we might say that a piece of the eschatological resurrection has been split off and planted in the midst of history. The first act of the drama of the Last Day has taken place before the Day of the Lord.

George Eldon Ladd

Easter Sunday

Pastor Josh Harp

The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

Tim Keller

Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

Pastor Josh Harp

It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian, than to be a captain.

William Gurnall

Fifth Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

Make no mistake: it does not always pay to be a Christian. Nor is honesty by any means always the best policy, if material gain is your ambition. Poverty has often been part of the cost of Christian discipleship.

John R.W. Stott

Fourth Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

Human civilization is normed throughout. Everywhere we discover limits and proprieties, standards and criteria: in every field of human affairs there are right and wrong ways of doing things. There is nothing in human life that does not belong to the created order. Everything we are and do is thoroughly creaturely.

Al Wolters, Creation Regained

Third Sunday in Lent

Rev Dr Justin McClendon

There are some of your graces which would never be discovered if it were not for your trials.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Second Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

Mother Teresa was asked at the end of her life whether she was discouraged because after decades of caring for the dying and destitute in Calcutta little seemed to have changed. She replied, “No. God doesn’t call me to be successful. God calls me to be faithful.”

First Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

It is one thing to protect the right of every religious person to follow the dictates of his conscience without fear of persecution; it is another to say that opposing convictions are both true. We must know the difference between equal toleration under the law and equal validity according to truth.

R.C. Sproul