Dec
7
Just a reminder: you can download sermons from FPC Kosciusko worship services from our church site www.fpckosciusko.org. Or you can subscribe to our weekly podcast and have them automatically downloaded onto your computer via iTunes.
Our Morning Worship service on the Lord’s Day is available by live streaming at www.breezynews.com at 11:00 am, “Mississippi time,” as Jack Cristil would say. That’s CST to everyone else. And if you don’t know who Jack Cristil is, reply to this entry, and I’ll tell you. His photo is below.
Aug
7
Who is “The Sweet Dropper”?
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We’ve affectionately named our blog after the Puritan preacher, Richard Sibbes. He served as lecturer at Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1610-1615, preacher at Gray’s Inn, London, from 1616-1635, and Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, 1625-35. Sibbes’ contemporaries referred to him to as the “Heavenly” Dr. Sibbes and “the sweet dropper” because he had such a sweet way of presenting the confidence, richness, depth and encouragement of the gospel.
Izzak Walton said of this prince of Puritan preachers: “of this blest man, let this just praise be given: Heaven was in him before he was in heaven.” Another wrote “No man that ever I was acquainted withal got so far into my heart or lay so close therein.” Sibbes was a practical preacher, a true Doctor of Souls, and multitudes gathered to hear him open the Word of Life. His most familiar works, The Soul’s Conflict and The Bruised Reed, were instrumental in the salvation and sanctification of many, including Puritan leaders such as John Cotton and Richard Baxter.
It is our humble hope that some sense of that sweet gospel savor that emanated from Richard Sibbes would be found on these pages.
