Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4.3.
Issue: Volume 15
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP A lecture given by Peter Cordle of Coventry at Forest Fold, Crowborough, on September 17,1996. 1. General Principles The dictionary gives at least three different uses of the word steward. A steward can be an official at a big public occasion. He can be the person who cares for the needs of a …
If ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God. Romans 8.14.
BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT It was on May 13, 1940, in his first speech to the House of commons, that the newly elected Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said; ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.’ And so it was to be for four more harrowing and weary years until the …
As Christ ceased not to be a King because He was like a servant, nor to be a lion because He was like a lamb, nor to be God because He was made man, nor to be a judge because He was judged; so a man doth not lose his honour by humility, but he …
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. Samuel Rutherford
PASSING TIME See how time’s unrelenting flood Like a great tidal river flows, Bears all our human life away, We helpless stand, time swiftly goes. Nor will time for mankind delay “Tis fixed by God’s unchanging laws; Unpityingly it rolls along, Nor brooks one single moment’s pause. Incessantly,by day and night, Unseen, unheard it rushes …
Well, Christians, remember this, God hath two strings to His bow; if your hearts will not lie humble and low under the sense of sin and misery. He will make them lie low under the lack of some desired mercy. Thomas Brooks
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Thomas Adams
A DISCRIMINATING MINISTRY By W. T. Atkinson* If there is one thing that is so greatly needed and yet so seldom found in the Christian church today, it is a discriminating ministry. It must surely be admitted that the last thing that can be said of modern-day preaching is that it is searching or discriminating. …