PERSECUTION A Newsletter from Georgi P. Vins Authorities threaten to seize Baptist Prayer House in Leningrad On December 8, 1981, the authorities arrested Vladimir Protsenko, the owner of the home in which the Leningrad independent (unregistered) Evangelical Baptist Church has been meeting since 1973. Protsenko, a simple and humble Christian, showed great faith in selflessly …
Author: Stephen Charnock
CONCERNING RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS A Continuation of an Abridgment of a treatise by Jonathan Edwards first published in 1746. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Peter 1.8. CERTAIN SIGNS Introduction I come now to take notice …
BE YE ALL OF ONE MIND Comments by Robert Leighton (1611-84) on 1 Peter 3.8. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. Of one mind. This does not only mean union in judgment, but it extends likewise to affection and action; especially in …
A WORD TO PREACHERS AND WRITERS The following comments form part of the Preface to the series of sermons which J. Newton preached from the scriptures used by G.F. Handel in his Oratorio The Messiah. They are printed with the hope that they will encourage that spirit of moderation and mutual respect which should previl …
THE FAITHFUL PREACHER ENCOURAGED Expository thoughts on the Parable of the Sower, as recorded in Luke 8. 4-15. The old saying that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ is one that sometimes applies to the Christian’s attitude to certain portions of Holy Scripture. Verses and passages, learnt either by heart as a child or read over and over …
CONCERNING RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS An Abridgment of a treatise by Jonathan Edwards first published in 1746. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Peter 1.8. THE DOCTRINE The doctrine I state from these words is that true …
ADAM WAS FIRST FORMED, THEN EVE. Notes of a Lecture delivered at Stamford, 16 January 1976. In 1879 Richard L. Dabney, an American Presbyterian wrote, “A few years ago the public preaching of women was universally condemned among all conservative denominations of Christians and indeed, within their bounds, was totally unknown”. He also comments, “The …
The soul is the life of the body. Faith is the life of the soul. Christ is the life of faith. John Flavel
As the act of healing through the eyes of the Israelites and the brazen serpent went together, so, in the act of justifying, these two, faith and Christ, have a mutual relation, and must always concur—faith as the action which apprehendeth, Christ as the object which is apprehended; so that neither the passion of Christ …
We must understand that faith does not justify and save us by itself.. .but as an instrument, whereby we lay hold of and apply to ourselves Christ with His righteousness and merits, by which only we appear just before God. A small and weak hand, if it be able to reach up the meat to …