Colossians 4.3.
Issue: Issue 1
ADVICE TO PREACHERS 1.Understand your text. 2. Confirm your view by private reference to the original language. 3. Strengthen your opinion by once more reading the whole context. 4. Avoid a display of learning. Criticize in the study; teach in the pulpit. 5. Divide your subject – it helps the hearers. 6. Speak in short …
1988 Anniversaries and centenaries command interest, some more than others. This coming year sees the commemoration of third and fourth centenaries of events in English history which were of far-reaching significance. In the year 1588 the Spanish Armada was woken up and dispersed, and in the year 1688 James II, a Roman catholic, gave place …
“GOD IS FOR ME.” (Psalm 56.9) Above me as my Protector (Col. 3.1) Beneath me as my Upholder (Deut. 33.27) Before me as my Leader (Ps. 107.7) Behind me as my Rereward (Is. 52.12) Beside me as my Companion (Ps. 16.8) Around me as a wall of fire (Zech. 2.5) Within me as my life …
THE GLORY OF CHRIST As the godly John Owen came to the day of his death he was told that the first sheet of his Meditations on the Glory of Christ had been printed under the superintendance of William Payne. On hearing this he lifted up his hands and looking upward he said, ‘I am …
THE FEAR OF DEATH Some of the Lord’s saints have not yet received dying grace; but then they are not going to die yet. Saints are prepared before they go. Our Lord does not pluck His fruit unwisely. Foolish people may tear the green apples from the tree with a pull and a wrench, and …