“Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” (Matthew 13:52)
They are “new treasures” (on our new website), but also “old” (because they were available in the last incarnation of the site). What is it that’s “new” and “old”? We’re making available once again the National Prayer Chapel sermon archives for 2010 and 2011 and all the individual episodes of the Springs of Living Water radio broadcasts from 2009 and 2010! How do you find them? Look at the menu above and you’ll see a new item: Message Archives –
How the archive messages appear in the navigation menu
Consistent with the site’s new features, each sermon and broadcast has its own audio player (like the new podcasts):
Each archived message has an individual audio player, like the new podcasts.
Dozens of messages are available already, and our goal is to have everything up and available by Christmas. Enjoy the “treasures”!
Pastor Jim
Painting of Martin Luther
Sometimes we think “out loud,” and I guess it happens sometimes when we write, too. I sent an e-mail to my friend Glen Steinson about a free software add-on from the American Bible Society that allows webmasters to have an entire Bible passage pop up over their page. (You can try it by clicking on this link — 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.) My friend and fellow ECA member Jerry Johnson of Christian Concourse Ministries had sent the information to me, and I found it so helpful that I wanted to share it with another Christian webmaster and podcaster; hence my e-mail to Glen.
But while writing the note to [click to continue…]
[Note from Pastor Ray Greenley: Over the last few years, the Lord has joined me in wonderful friendship and fellowship with Brother Jim Kerwin and his wife, Denise. Jim is called by God to be a Bible teacher, and he is one of those rare ministers who holds the Bible line on sin, righteousness, holiness, and especially the experience of the life of Jesus within; he has shared God's word with us in person on a number of occasions. I have asked Jim to share his thoughts on our National Prayer Chapel website. This is his first journal entry. Soon, perhaps as early as this week, his Kernels of Wheat podcast, which appears weekly on the KernelsOfWheat.com website, will be "re-broadcast" here on NationalPrayerChapel.com.]
Two More Songs Singing Me, by Jim Kerwin
Sunday morning, 9 October 2011
"Flowers Along the Occoquan," a photo taken during my Sunday morning prayer walk. (Part of worship is stopping to enjoy and give thanks for God's handiwork.)
Volunteering, as I have been, on the NationalPrayerChapel.com website over the weekend, has an unexpected perquisite—waking up each morning in Pastor Ray Greenley’s guest bedroom with a clear view of the thin golden hair of pre-dawn light silhouetting the horizon across the Occoquan River. After I’ve dressed in the dark and finished my hour of Scripture reading downstairs in the dining room, I can steal off for a prayer walk along the Occoquan.
Two songs have been “singing me” me this morning. (Those of you who have read my blog post, A Song Singing Me, will understand.) The first song arose within my heart from the moment my eyelids popped open, and second one was triggered in my spirit by the sight of [click to continue…]
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