Friday, August 14, 2020

Your Worship Service Tomorrow

                 Well tomorrow you may or may not be choosing to attend worship service in person. Should you choose to stay home out of concern for yourself and others during this season of pandemic....but do not have the option of worshiping via streaming....I have an option that I'm sure would bless you. The sermons that I listen to during the week....usually as I'm walking....often automatically go on to the next sermon in line. I had previously listened to a Charles Spurgeon sermon....and a sermon followed titled Holiness by a contemporary of Spurgeon's....J. C. Ryle. Ryle....along with R. C. Sproul....are renown among Christians for their sermons and teachings on this subject. So just Google...J. C. Ryle....Holiness sermon. Just in case you might be thinking that I am being somewhat presumptuous in recommending to you a sermon on holiness....as if I'm trying to lead you to what I have found.....it is just the opposite....as as a message such as this is at the same time a wonderful blessing.....and a hard look into a clear mirror.

Addenedum: Today yet another wonderful surprise as a eulogy given by John Wesley on the recently departed to be with his Lord George Whitefield appeared....you can hear it by Googling....John Wesley...On The Death Of The Rev. George Whitefield. Oh that Methodist congregations today would en masse return to the sermons of their founder. Wesley at one point recounts some comments written by Whitefield on his first trip to the American colonies....as he wrote upon the long journey finally under way...."Blessed be God....we can now live very comfortably in the great cabin. We talk of little else but God and Christ....and scarce a word is heard among us but what was referenced as our fall in the first....and our new birth in the Second Adam." I heard this and wondered how it is that we today cannot talk about nothing but Christ and our new birth. I'm sure this account on the life of George Whitefield will edify if you choose to listen to it.