Myton Musings

As a follow up to yesterday's message here is an article that appeared on the 'Desiring God' website in July 2020.    'It’s been hard to avoid hyperbole when talking about the COVID-19 crisis. Unprecedented! World-changing! Life won’t be the same again! We’ve heard it all and will continue to hear it. It’s estimated that around half the world’s population experienced virus-provoked restrictions of one sort or another. In addition to the fears and griefs directly caused by the disease, the lockdowns and quarantines brought genuine hardship, whether from enforced separation (from needed friends, for example) or enforced proximity (as in cases of domestic abuse). This really has been new.. . read more

Find new ways to get into God's Word in 2021 and walk through the year with renewed confidence in God's goodness - whatever the year holds. Explore some of the resources the Good Book Company have to help us get into God's Word.

LICC review 2020 through the eyes of five of the 'Connecting with culture' articles they published through the year. Read here...

Following up from Sunday's message on Psalm 13 here are some further Psalms of lament. Twenty Complaints  Laments contain various complaints expressing struggle, questions, outrage, and frustration. The following passages are examples of the unique complaints found in the psalms of lament: Why? ·            Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? (Ps. 10:1) ·            Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”? (Ps. 10:13) ·            My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? (Ps. 22:1) ·            I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” (Ps. 42:9) ·            For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (Ps. 43:2) ·            Awake! Why are you sle