The Conventicle: A Good Find

Who were the Puritans?

"A loosely organized reform movement originating during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. The name came from efforts to 'purify' the Church of England by those who felt that the Reformation had not yet been completed. Eventually the Puritans went on to attempt purification of the self and of society as well."

(Mark Noll, "Puritanism", Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 1984)

Thursday, September 28, 2006

A Good Find

For my inaugural I thought I would start off by misspelling inaugural (that word never looks right), and I thought I would offer a less that profound suggestion. I recently bought a new CD entitled The Valley of Vision (produced by Sovereign Grace).

I share that because it is a collection of puritan prayers set to contemporary music. Now if you are a purist, which I would imagine some puritan followers are, you may not appreciate these prayers being ripped from the originals. But I have to say that I have truly enjoyed them.

Now that my first post is done, I shall try to move on to slightly more helpful posts.

TAB

2 comments:

John W. Tweeddale said...: Tim,

Welcome aboard!

Thanks for this recommendation. Angela and I have greatly benefited from The Valley of Vision prayers published by the Banner of Truth. I look forward to hearing these prayers put to music by the good folk at Sovereign Grace.

Another VV resource, I believe Max McLean - of Ligonier fame - has produced a CD collection with him reading these puritan prayers. Has anyone heard these?

JWT; 1:55 PM
James Anderson said...: John,

You can listen to a sample here.; 2:06 PM