Thank you. When you go to church, does your mind ever become distracted during worship?

Are you ever preoccupied by anxious thoughts or your to-do list?

Today, on Truth for Life, we'll learn how and why a proper view of God can adjust our thinking,

realign our priorities, and greatly impact our praise.

Alistair Begg is teaching today from Colossians, Chapter 3.

As you know, I am an unashamed fan of the Book of Common Prayer, which for those of you who are not

Anglicans, you can wonder about it and go and find it.

That does not mean that I am happy with everything that appears in the book of common prayer.

There are obvious discrepancies between my own convictions regarding baptism, as well as other

things. But all of that being said, I am a fan of the book of common prayer. I'm a fan of something

that could have been put together in the 16th century and is still being used to the

benefit of God's people in the 21st century. I suppose you might say that I am in that

respect a fan of tradition when the tradition teaches us who we are under God and provides us the means of giving glory to God.

And with that in mind, I simply want to reflect with you for a moment or two along this line of thought,

partly historical in its observation, hopefully, foundationally biblical in its orientation,

and for some a reminder, and for others, an introduction. The prayer book was put together over

a period of time at the end of the 16th century and into the 17th century. Archbishop Cranber, he wasn't

Archbishop when he began this, but he became the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was responsible.

He was ultimately the architect of the prayer book. And he endeavored to put this together in the company of his colleagues

in order to ensure for the people of God a mechanism and a means for gathering together in

public worship and reading the Bible together, praying together, and singing God's praise together.

When you recognize that this is the time of the Reformation, and when you pay attention to the fact that

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