If you get to Holy Week wanting you had actually invested more time getting ready for and contemplating the conserving work of Christ, you‘ll benefit substantially from the devotional book O Sacred Head, Now Wounded: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Pascha to Pentecost. This abundant collection of everyday readings will considerably improve
your peaceful time in prayer and assist you completely experience the most substantial occasion in human history. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded assembles the works of excellent theologians from throughout the centuries like Jonathan Edwards, J. C. Ryle, Isaac Watts, Thomas Watson, and Augustine. Historic scholars like Stephen Charnock, John Flavel, and Charles Spurgeon will assist you develop a posture of remembrance and thankfulness as they review what Christ achieved through His temptations, trial, death, resurrection, and ascension and the occasions of Pentecost. The book likewise consists of prayers, meditations, and hymn lyrics from the Puritans and other dads of our faith and from the Book of Common Prayer. These hymn lyrics, creeds, and prayers have actually motivated and founded guilty Christians for centuries and will assist you to review the majesty of Christ’s work.
This freshly released volume is the 3rd in a series by the author of Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship and O Come, O Come Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany. It consists of forty-eight days of mystery-evoking devotional material to bring you from mid-Holy Week to Pascha (the historic name for Easter Sunday) to Pentecost utilizing an easy-to-follow liturgical format. To what you may experience in a conventional church service, this book includes Scripture together with crucial teaching utilizing creeds and catechisms from church history.
Author Jonathan Gibson composes, “My prayer is that the material, structure, and rhythms of this day-to-day liturgy might assist us to be more like the females who stood near the cross on that terrible Friday afternoon, considering in silence; and who left the empty burial place on that confident Sunday early morning, declaring and applauding with enthusiasm.”
This distinct devotional deals an exceptionally moving time of reflection on the conserving work of the Lord Jesus that can be utilized for individual meditation or reading aloud together as a household. Each liturgy is developed to take about twenty minutes, enabling versatility when time is restricted. It is available in a lovely fabric, gold-embossed hardbound with 3 silk ribbons to hold your location and shops in a memento box, making it ideal for present offering.
If you own the other liturgy books in the series, you will not wish to miss out on including this 3rd book to your collection. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded will assist you consider the increased Christ and put words to your thankfulness for His fantastic act of love and grace. Request your copy with a contribution today.
