The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn
Issue: Issue 3
Evil-disposed persons are forever fanning the fires of enmity. They make the smallest matter a ground of offence.
Sin blinds a sinner so that he cannot see the beauty of the Saviour and makes him deaf, so that he cannot hear the Redeemer’s tender invitation.
Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6.11.
ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD 1. Even Desertion Paul states a profound, comforting truth for God’s people when he writes in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” In a word, not singly, but …
THE CHURCH AS CHRISTÂ’S BRIDE The Church Joined to Christ How searching words often are. A minister addressing a congregation hears his words turn upon himself, “Marriage should not be entered into ill-advisedly or lightly”, the words may hit him with breathtaking force. What pains has he taken to “advise” this couple about marriage? Perhaps …
SIMPLICITY IN PREACHING* J. C. Ryle King Solomon says, in the book of Ecclesiastes, “Of making many books there is no end” (Eccles. 12.12). There are few subjects about which that saying is more true than that of preaching. The volumes which have been written in order to show ministers how to ‘reach are enough …
QUARRELS AMONG CHRISTIANS Ambrose Searle* IT is not grace which genders strife, but corruption. If therefore any brother’s corruption be raised against me, shall I oppose my corruption to his, and so enter into wrath? or shall I not rather beg of God, that His grace in me may invite the grace that is in …