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: Issue 3
THE INWARD WITNESS A letter by John Newton 1725-1807 Sir, I readily offer you my thoughts on 1 John 5.10; “He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself;” though, perhaps, you will think I am writing a sermon, rather than a letter. If we believe in the Son of God, …
CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIPS* Maurice Roberts The Christian discovers that, whilst he has fellowship with all his brethren in Christ, he has special friendships only with some of them. It is not always easy to say why such friendships between some Christians develop or why potential friendships with others come to nothing. But it is a fact …
THE TRUE CHURCH J. C. Ryle Where is this one true Church? What is this one true Church like? What are the marks by which this one true Church may be known? You may well ask such questions. The one true Church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus. It is made up …
THE TRANSFIGURATION D. M. Adams The three accounts of the Transfiguration are found in Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-9 and Luke 9:28-36. Jesus took Peter, James, and John to a high mountain apart and was transfigured before them in an intense blaze of light. Moses and Elijah appeared and talked with him. Then a cloud overshadowed …
There is a true and sound sense in which we may say that a true believer may live as he will; for it is the prevailing will and desire of every real believer to live only to the glory of God. He is not a Christian who does not delight in the law of God, …
IMPERFECTION If I build a house, it is ten thousand to one if I do not afterwards find it defective in some respect or other: there is continually something to add, or something to alter, and something that may be improved for the better.—If I write a book, I find it imperfect. Some errata of …