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 …
Issue: Issue 8
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 …
THE FALL AND RECOVERY OF MAN Christmas Evans 1766-1838* “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. Man was created in the image of God. Knowledge and perfect holiness …
THE SIMPLICITY OF FAITH The following anecdote was related by Dr. Spence. Some years ago there prevailed, in one of our northern districts for several weeks, a drought, which, it was anticipated, would result in fearful consequences. It was ultimately decided by a few godly men to meet for prayer to ask God to send …
When we trust in frames and feelings, as soon as they are gone, the soul is discouraged and dejected: but when we trust in GodÂ’s promises, which are always the same, then it is we are right; and a sense of GodÂ’s unchangeable love towards us, proceeding from such trust, fires our souls with a …
It often happens that those are the best people who are most slandered, as we usually find those apples to be the sweetest which the birds have been pecking at. Dean Swift.
NIFF AND HIS DOGS Amongst the notorious characters of our village, thirty years ago, the subject of this narrative stood the most prominent. He was then in the prime of life, of middle stature, with a strong constitution, and remarkable activity, and the whole energy of body and soul was daily employed in the service …
Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow! Lamentations 1.12.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones
It may be that we are sinful; but God did not love us for our goodness, neither will He cast us off for our wickedness. Yet this is no encouragement to licentiousness, for God knows how to put us to anguishes and straits and crosses, and yet to reserve everlasting life for us John Cotton