Among the most precious gifts of God is the Holy Spirit, himself God, who as the Psalter notes, “renews the face of the earth” (Ps. 104:30), and as the Letter to the Romans notes, floods our hearts with the love of God (Rom 5:5). By the Spirit, we learn to love with the love that God is, having first been loved with the divine love in Jesus Christ our Lord. Pentecost, in other words, marks a decisive change in the life of the human race, itself the fruition of what has begun with the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
We’ve also got some new things afoot at Covenant, and, more widely, The Living Church, though to tell you as much is rather anticlimactic in the wake of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, it is worth noting.
After months of work, we are set to debut a new, redesigned website. Not only will it look better than ever, it will also be considerably more user friendly (God willing).
One feature that I’m particularly excited about is the ability to subscribe to Covenant!
Over the years, I’ve gotten quite a few requests from readers who either wish that we had a subscription feature, or who have misremembered us having one and wish to renew their subscription. Now I’ll no longer have to sheepishly reply, “Well, actually we don’t have the capability to do that…”
Now you can just sign up and have every day’s Covenant essay delivered right to your inbox. Please, let me encourage you to do so.
In the meantime, allow me to give you a bit of a programming note for this week. Launching the new website is a pretty significant undertaking, one which involves a non-zero chance of technical snafus needing our attention and leaving us begging your patience. In view of this, and in view of the tremendous gift of God’s Spirit, there won’t be any new material published on Covenant this week. Instead, I’ve gone into our archives to find edifying material about Pentecost and the Holy Spirit, which will be running every day this week. Including today.
I hope this trip down memory lane proves edifying. We’ll resume our normal programming on Monday May 27.
