Deus Misereatur

  With Paul, all the Apostles, the saints and martyrs who have gone before, along with our brothers and sisters world over, we lift our hearts in adoration saying: Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen (Romans 11:33-36). O God, deep in riches, wisdom and knowledge: we pray for your one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, to include this congregation and Village Christian, Western Oaks Christian, Christ’s Church Yukon, and Greater Cleaves Memorial Church. Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old (Lamentations 5:21). Rouse the hearts of your church in this land to humbly seek you, instead of other sources of success and prominence, power or ...

  (From my letter to the congregation sent out on 14 January 2026) Last week we began praying for the revival and reformation of God’s church in these United States of America (see Part 1 ). We also want to invite other believers to do the same with us. We continue this theme today from Zephaniah.   Zephaniah recorded how the Day of the LORD was coming upon God’s people. This short work is quite sobering. And it becomes quickly recognizable that the Day of the LORD in Zephaniah was a season of national judgment brought about through natural, social, political, local and regional catastrophe and calamity. It is a day of distress, anguish, ruin, devastation, darkness, gloom, armed conflict (1:15), and economic collapse (1:18).   And what is clear is that the arrival of the Day of the LORD is because God’s church had become so similar to the immoralities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Ekron, all of which were Philistines (1:2-6, 2:4). Many in God’s family were acting, re...