THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL John Bunyan Thus he went on his Way; … and behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood just by the Highway side. So I saw in my dream, that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get …
Issue: Issue 7
THE LORD ADDING TO THE CHURCH Sermon preached 11th July 1999, Forest Fold, Crowborough We turn this morning to the Word of God in Acts chapter 2, part of the last verse in the chapter. The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2 and part of verse 47. ‘And the Lord added to the church daily …
‘I HOPE!’ J. C. Ryle 1816 – 1900 ‘Good hope through grace.’ – 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ‘I hope,’ is a very common expression. Everybody can say, I hope.’ On no subject is the expression used so commonly as it is about religion. Nothing is more frequent than to hear men turn off some home-thrust at …
CHRIST’S GROWING CHURCH Sermon preached by Mr. D. G. Crowter on Sunday morning 28th January 1990 at Gower St. Memorial Chapel. ‘In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.’ Ephesians 2. v.21 The subject here is God’s building, that is the true Church of Jesus Christ, which …
MY SINS Thomas Halyburton I determined to humble myself distinctly for every one of them, and to make a distinct application to the throne of grace about each; but when I began to observe them, they were so many that if I had followed this course, my whole time would not have sufficed. I was …
PAUL’S VISION You have not seen what I have seen, Nor heard what I have heard; You entered not where I have been, Where strangely I was stirred. Through intervening skies I rose To the third heaven of bliss; And saw what no man sees or knows, Nor earth can show, like this. I heard, …
POSTHUMOUS USEFULNESS W. S. Plumer Reason would show that we should try so to live as to be useful after death. The Scriptures say that some men are so. ‘He being dead yet speaketh.’ This was said of a man four thousand years after his time. Surely this should encourage us to zeal in our …