Except the LORD build the house they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127.1.
Issue: Volume 15
THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHILDREN Notes of an address Basic Principles 1. All are born into a sin-ruined human-race. Psalm 51.5. Romans 3.10 and 5.12-19. 2. No one is saved or goes to heaven on the ground of personal innocence. 3. All who are in heaven at last are redeemed by Christ out of …
ENOCH A Sermon by J. C. Ryle `Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him.’ Genesis 5.24 You all wish to go to heaven. I know it. I am fully persuaded of it; I am certain of it. There is not one of you, however false may be his views of …
Notes on a lecture at Evington, December 2002 Background I need to give you a very brief outline of the period leading up to the times Augustine lived in. The NT church was led by our Lord’s chosen Apostles. Local churches were under the leadership of elders (also called bishops, overseers, presbyters) and deacons. It …
THE PILLAR Henry Law, one time Dean of Gloucester `The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.’ Exodus 13.21. The children of Israel are about to tread …
JOHN OWEN, A PRE-EMINENT PURITAN Notes of a Lecture, December 2004. Historical Background The history of Puritanism may be divided into three periods. 1. From the accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) to the crushing of the Presbyterian movement by her in 1593. 2. From 1593 to the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640. 3. …
SIN UNTO DEATH A Sermon preached by Mr S. Delves, 31 st May 1970, Crowborough `If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say …
GODLY SORROW – A MARK OF SPIRITUAL LIFE A Sermon preached by Mr D. G. Crowter, 23rd July 1989, at Gower Street Memorial Chapel. ‘Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us …
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.