Christ Is to the Heart Like a River Is to a Tree
One of my dearest friends (we’ve spent hundreds of hours together!) is Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), indisputably the greatest intellect produced on Ameri...
Author: Carl Robbins
Carl is a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a graduate of Crichton College and Covenant Theological Seminary. Pastor Robbins has served churches in South Carolina, Oklahoma and Nevada. In addition Carl has served on the board of crisis pregnancy centers, Christian schools and seminaries. He has spoken to college groups, medical school forums, state legislative groups, seminary chapels and church conferences. His special passion is training pastors in developing countries. Carl and wife Sandy have been married for 37 years(!) and are the parents of three believing, adult children: John and his wife DeAnna and their children (Bray, Emmie Ruth, and Maggie Grace), James and his wife Megen and their children (Jack and Lainey Janice), and Sarah and her husband Andrew Holmes. Carl and Sandy love OU football, big dogs, good Mexican food, and the beach—any beach, any time.
Teaching Your Child Self Control
Beginning in mid-April we’ll be focusing on all kinds of family-related discussions in our morning worship service. This is because we’ll come to th...
Reverence in Worship
The first thing that strikes many visitors as they worship at WRPC is that our worship seems…well, different from the run-of-the-mill evangelical church. Our se...
Changing Your Mind
When was the last time you changed your mind? Realized that you were holding to erroneous and unbiblical ideas about parenting or baptism or eschatology or God’...
Our Favorite Hymns: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
If you check the index in the back of your Trinity Hymnal (pg. 887) you will find that Isaac Watts has more hymns than anyone else in our hymnal, 36 to be exact...
Listening to Jesus Praying
During the 3.5 year public ministry of Jesus, His disciples heard His teaching on prayer, especially when He taught THEM how to pray (in Matthew 6 and Luke 11)....
36 Years of Grace
This Sunday evening (January 3) I will be continuing in our exposition of the Psalms. It is more than fitting that I will be expounding (explaining and applying...
Lessons on Prayer from Godly Old Anglicans
A few years ago (recognizing my own immaturity in this most necessary spiritual discipline) I began studying prayer. I carefully examined the forms of prayer in...
I’d rather be a worshiper of the Triune God than…..
The Sons of Korah penned Psalm 84. They were descendants of one of the most notorious of all rebels in biblical history – Korah. You can read his wicked s...
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Every church has a persona. Some churches have the reputation of being a “friendly church”. others are known to be a “cold church”. Still others are said to be ...