by Peter James | May 25, 2024 | Lancelot Andrewes
People often wrote to John Chapman, a respected nineteenth century monk and abbot, asking for his guidance on prayer. He often advised them, “Pray as you can, not as you can’t.” Scripture introduces us to a wide variety of ways to pray that can be...
by Peter James | May 24, 2024 | Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
When the four Pevensie children learned that King Aslan was a lion, they were unsure what to think. Should they be afraid? “Is he—quite safe?” Susan asks, “I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.” Mrs. Beaver answers, “If there’s anyone who can appear before...
by Peter James | May 23, 2024 | John Fawcett
The great evangelist George Whitefield spoke to an enormous Bradford, England crowd in September 1755. He preached at a makeshift outdoor pulpit on John 3.15 “that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him [Jesus].” John Fawcett (1739-1817) who worked as an...
by Peter James | May 22, 2024 | Wesley Stafford
People ask me about horrible atrocities committed in the name of Christ. How do you as a religious person account for it? “Look,” I tell them. “Healthy people use faith in the right way; unhealthy people abuse it in the wrong way.” Wesley...
by Peter James | May 21, 2024 | Ian Pitt-Watson
When Rosemary was three years old, she was given a rag doll as a gift. It became her inseparable companion. Over time, the doll became more and more ragged and less and less doll. There was no use trying to clean it; washing would only make it more ragged. The...
