Every year as the holidays approach, I take a break from whatever book I’m preaching through and turn to something completely different. For instance, last year I preached a series entitled “A Very Reformed Christmas”, preaching a text from the Christmas narrative each week of Advent and pairing it with one of the five solasContinue reading “Thanksgiving: The One Thing We Add to the Gospel”
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To My White Brothers and Sisters, for MLK Day
(Written January 2016.) I just got home from a rousing three hour service at Miller Chapel AME Church. It was my first time attending an MLK Day service. It’s a holiday that has always felt to me like President’s Day or Labor Day–another Monday off from school in honor of an important figure from theContinue reading “To My White Brothers and Sisters, for MLK Day”
“The New First Day” an Easter Poem
Below is a poem I wrote while pondering the significance of the New Covenant begun through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Particularly, I focused on the significance that Christ laid in the grave on the Sabbath but rose on the First day of the week. May it renew your heart’s longing for our Risen Savior as weContinue reading ““The New First Day” an Easter Poem”
Lent: ‘Be Ye Imitators…’
(Brian Preston is the Pastor at Bush River Baptist Church in Newberry, SC. He graduated with an M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and he has particular interest in Early Church History and the Church Fathers.) Among my Christian friends on Facebook I’ve recently seen comments, pros and cons, regarding the season of lent. PleaseContinue reading “Lent: ‘Be Ye Imitators…’”
My Social Media New Year’s Resolutions
It is a new year, and as I think about how I want to take advantage of this fresh start, I realized that the me I really want to improve is the online me–that is, the me I present on all of my social media. Therefore, as I seek to grow my online health, personality,Continue reading “My Social Media New Year’s Resolutions”
Looking Back: A Thanksgiving Reflection
As we all wake up with eater’s guilt–or have already been awake for many hours and are just returning home with shopper’s guilt–Thanksgiving slowly drifts into the memory bank of holidays-of-years-past. However, before we let this Thanksgiving go to usher in the Christmas season, let us take a moment to reflect. Last night, our familyContinue reading “Looking Back: A Thanksgiving Reflection”