MAN OF TRUTH AND POWER
Issue: Volume 10
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied therein Heb. 13.9.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea the work of our hands establish thou it. Psalm 90 v.l6 17.
THE WANDERER’S PATHWAY (2) David Scott To complete the record I will try to give a few details of God’s wonderful dealings in providence and grace after my marriage -. “Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee” (Psalm 31.19). I am very conscious of the danger …
Whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report. . . think on these things. – Philippians 4.8.
FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK (3) It is a source of grief to many true believers that they feel themselves to be so unfruitful; that there is so little of the pleasant manifestations of the fruit of the Spirit in themselves. Indeed, they wonder if their heart is the Lord’s garden at all, and they …
By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith (Hebrews 11.7).
CAST DOWN? A bad day at work? The children awake half the night? Failure in an important examination? The aftermath of influenza? Weeks of dull cloudy weather instead of warm spring sunshine? These and many other factors affect our feelings and, both for the believer and for the unbeliever, the tendency is the same – …
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD If the very greatest of all Christian books, after the Word of God, were to be placed side by side, the Letters of Samuel Rutherford would stand with Augustine’s Confessions, Calvin’s Institutes, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim. A Scottish Presbyterian divine, saint, and pastor, he was born in 1600 and died in 1661. He was …
THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT The eminent Archbishop Ussher being once on a ‘visit to Scotland, heard a great deal of the famous Mr Samuel Rutherford, who, he understood, spent whole nights in prayer especially before the Sabbath. The archbishop wished much to witness such extraordinary down-pouring of the Spirit, but was utterly at a loss how …