GIFT AND GRACE Gifts may decay and perish. They do not lie beyond the reach of corruption. Indeed, grace shall never perish, but gifts will. Grace is incorruptible, though gifts are not. Grace is a spring whose waters fail not, but the streams of gifts may be dried up. He that did create it in …
Issue: Issue 3
MEEKNESS 1. Meekness: Fruit of the Holy Spirit. The concept of meekness is often considered only in terms of a person’s natural disposition. If someone is gentle and mild, neither self-assertive or hurriedly defensive we say that he or she is meek. In an aggressive, competitive society it is not a characteristic which is always …
There is no fear of knowing too much, but there is much fear of practising too little. Thomas Brooks
The root is faith, the sap is fear, the fruit is obedience. Richard Sibbes
FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND Not only did John Newton excel as ‘a son of consolation’; he also possessed the rare faculty of faithful yet loving reproof. His friendship was too genuine to suffer sin in a brother. Of this the letter we are about to quote is a striking illustration. It is …
THE SEVEN NAMES OF GOD, IN THE 23rd PSALM The Lord is my Shepherd; Jehovah-Rohi. I shall not want; Jehovah-Jireh, The Lord will provide, (Gen. 22-14). He restoreth my soul; Jehovah-Rapha, The Lord that healeth, (Exod. 15-26). He leadeth me beside the still waters; Jehovah-Shalom, The Lord our peace, (Judges 6-24). He leadeth me in …
CAN A CHRISTIAN EVER LOSE HIS SALVATION? by Thomas A. Thomas One of the most blessed truths in all of the Word of God is the doctrine of the final perseverance in grace of the believer. That is the teaching that the one who truly knows the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour from …
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Cor. 2:17.