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[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

My Creed leads me to think that prayer is efficacious, and surely a day’s asking God to overrule all events for good is not lost. Still there is a great feeling that when a man is praying he’s doing nothing, and this feeling makes us give undue importance to work, sometimes even to the hurrying over or even to the neglect of prayer...

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Why Pray? In his book, The Weapon of Prayer, Edward Bounds states: "The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer...

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

If you want a good read (and a long one) and to study of one of the Reformed confessions authored by the Protestant Reformers Heinreich Bullinger, Martin Bucer, Wolfgang Capito, and Leo Jud among others (these men where impacted by Luther and Calvin in one way or another).

[wisdomfish]

In 2006, the CCEL Board of Directors approved the following brief mission statement:

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. The CCEL accomplishes this by selecting, collecting, distributing, and promoting valuable literature through the World Wide Web and other media.

The values guiding the collection and activities of the CCEL include:

Selectivity—Writings included in the library are considered valuable in some way to build up the church. In addition to Christian classics, there may be secondary literature on the classics and other works valuable for the mission.

Orthodoxy—Writings in the library for the most part represent orthodox Christianity as understood by mainstream Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox Christians, with greater emphases on Reformed and Protestant writings.

Ecumenicity—The CCEL strives to expose readers to a variety of Christian perspectives.

Community—The CCEL builds community through promotion to and engagement with and among Christians, seekers and scholars worldwide.

Efficacy—The CCEL seeks to provide effective resources and tools for edification, worship, leadership, ministry training, Christian scholarship, and education. The CCEL also seeks to provide educational and scholarly opportunities for interested faculty members and students of Calvin College.

Efficiency—All choices including literature, media, technologies, languages, partners, etc., will be made strategically with the goal of good stewardship of resources and competencies to build up the church worldwide.

Sustainability—The CCEL seeks to create a sustainable model for building up the church through its activities.