Posted in Modern Puritan Prayers on August 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Heavenly Father,
You have searched us and understood;
You know when we stand up or sit down,
You understand our thoughts from afar,
You scrutinize our journeys and our times of rest,
Nothing of ours is hidden from You.
But who has known your mind?
Transform our hearts,
Renew our thoughts,
For they have become too conformed to the pattern of this [...]
Posted in Modern Puritan Prayers on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
You are the blessed God,
happy in yourself,
and the source of happiness in your creatures.
Our maker, benefactor, proprietor, upholder,
You have produced and sustained us,
supported and indulged us,
saved and kept us.
In every situation, you meet our needs and miseries.
May we live by you,
live for you,
and never be satisfied with our Christian progress
until we resemble Christ;
May conformity to [...]
Posted in Modern Puritan Prayers on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
In preparation for a worship set tonight, I’ve taken a prayer from the Valley of Vision and (gently) put it into somewhat more contemporary (and plural) language. I thought it might be an encouragement to some of you.
Give us a deeper trust,
that we may lose ourselves-
[...]
Posted in Modern Puritan Prayers on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
This selection comes from a sermon of Scougal’s sermon entitled “That There are But a Small Number Saved”, based on the text from Luke 13:23,
“Then said one unto him,
“Lord, are the few that be saved?”
In this selection, we find Scougal proposing a theology that bears a sharp contrast the the inclusivism [...]
