COME HOLY SPIRIT Come Holy Spirit come; in Thy transforming power, Oh! Come to me I pray, in this my needy hour; Renew my will, my life conform, Make me like Christ, with ardour warm. Come as the Breath of God, wake up my sleepy soul, And bring my every power beneath my Lord’s control; …
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FINALLY `Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.’ Philippians 3.1. Paul uses this word, ‘Finally,’ not to suggest that he is about to die or that he will never see the Philippians again, because in chapter …
MELODY AND HARMONY* Extracts from a Sermon preached on Sunday morning, 29th November, 1959, in Westminster Chapel, London, by Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. ‘Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.’ Ephesians 5.19. Spiritual Song Now, we come on to the second part …
WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH? Thomas Boston Among all the elders who have through faith obtained a good report, there is none more remarkable than Elijah the Tishbite. He was a person altogether extraordinary. In his exercise and experience he was singularly distinguished. His experiences were powerful encouragements to the people of God …
Extracts from Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul by Octavius Winslow – published 1841.
THE UNCHANGING CHRIST J. C. Ryle ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.’ Hebrews 13.8 Always the same, unchanging — that is a glorious character; a character which belongs to nothing that is of the earth, earthy; a character which He alone deserves who is the Lord from heaven. What of this …
THE STORY OF A REVIVAL Walter C. Brehaut The Island of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, is roughly in the form of a triangle. At its north-western angle is the parish of Saint Pierre-du-Bois (St. Peter-in-the-Wood). At the extreme northwest tip of the parish is a locality called L’Eree, or Les Sablons …
PSALM 1 A prayer-meeting address by Mr. G. Rose, of Croydon. The Word of God gives us a description of how things are in the sight of God, and none but God’s Word can do that. That is the true perspective of our condition; not what man thinks of us, if he does not get …
BROWNLOW NORTH’S LAST DAYS Mrs.Campbell continues: ‘On Sunday night he had preached a very arousing discourse upon the awfulness of sin and of God’s wrath, addressed to the unconverted. His two discourses on Wednesday and Friday were addressed more to the Lord’s people. He was quiet, and spoke much of the blessedness of the Christian …