Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 10 – Belief
Going to church will not make you a saint, any more than going to school will make you a scholar.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 9 – Still Holy Lives Reveal the Christ
holy lives Reveal the Christ of whom the letter told,
And the new Gospel verifies the old.
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 8 – Holiness
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 7 – The Evidence of a Christian Life
The best evidence of the truth of Christianity is the evidence of a simple, honest, earnest Christian.
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 6 – Religion and Humility
The tendency of the religious of all times has been to care more for religion than for humanity…..
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 5 – Commonplace Christianity
Commonplace Christianity is often a very poor and trivial affair; an affair of ceremonies and opinions and feelings;
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 4 – Christians- Real and Nominal
[the Invisible Church] is a great fellowship of those who have lived for others and not for themselves, for the truth and not for the opinion of men only, above the world and not merely in it.
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 3 – Unsyllabled Sermons
Day follows day, and on each day we are, by the silent energy of our example, either loosening or strengthening the faith of our children, our servants, and our friends.
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 2 – The Secret Place of the Almighty
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 2 – The Secret Place of the Almighty And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue… Continue reading Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 2 – The Secret Place of the Almighty
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 1 – The Pure in Heart Shall see God
Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 1 – The Pure in Heart Shall see God Is it not promised for ever to the pure in heart that they shall see God? Let any true man go into silence; strip himself of all pretence, and selfishness, and sensuality, and sluggishness of soul; lift off thought after thought, passion after passion, till… Continue reading Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 1 – The Pure in Heart Shall see God
Suffolk Vicar 