LET TYNDALE SPEAK The five hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Tyndale is being remembered this year. His life and work is well known and has been recorded in many biographies. There is no need to repeat what has been so well said by others and readers are encouraged to obtain or borrow and …
Issue: Volume 14
Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. 2 Tim. 3.5.
He is not a Jew which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which isoutward in the flesh:
But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that o
PRAYER AND THE SPIRIT* Romans 8 is one of the most magnificent passages in the whole of Paul’s writings. But right in the centre come two verses neglected today and often absent in contemporary paperbacks on “prayer”. Romans 8:26,27 reads:- “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray …
FURTHER LIGHT ON GOD’S WORD An extract from the Autobiography of George Müller I will mention some points which God then began to show me. (1) That the Word of God alone is our standard of judgment in spiritual things; that it can be explained only by the Holy Spirit; and that in our day, …
TEMPTATIONS Ambrose Serle* It is a great part of the Christian warfare to encounter temptations. When a man truly becomes Christ’s soldier, he is armed from head to foot by Him; because, from head to foot will his enemies attack him with all sorts of weapons, to inflict all possible distress, where they cannot overwhelm …
When a man goes thirsty to the well, his thirst is not allayed merely by going there. On the contrary, it is increased by every step he goes. It is by what he draws out of the well that his thirst is satisfied. Just so it is not by the mere bodily exercise of waiting …
For if through the offence of one many be dead; much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many. Romans 5.15.
SERMONS BY JOHN KERSHAW This is the title of a book which has been recently published by the Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 12b Roundwood Lane, harpenden, Herts, AL5 3AD. It is a collection of sermons and fragments of sermons by John Kershaw (1792-1870) who was pastor of Hope Chapel, Rochdale, for over fifty years where …
WHY IS THERE NO WRESTLING? Maurice Roberts* It is a question worth pondering as to whether there is much serious prayer being offered up in our busy age. There is undoubtedly a welter of other things being attempted: files of paper are prepared on a host of topics; memoranda by the score are recorded; statistics …
LONG PRAYERS-AN EXHORTATION Maurice Roberts* It is noteworthy that Christ warns against the danger of making ‘long prayer’ in public (Matt. 23:14), but He gives no similar counsel with respect to brevity in prayer. Most prayer, as recorded in Scripture, is short and we are never encouraged to think of earnestness in prayer in terms …