QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MINISTERS Isaac Watts, D.D. Of faithfulness in the ministry. Do I sincerely give myself ‘ to the ministry of the word;’ Acts 6.4. and do I design to make it the chief business of my life to serve Christ in His Gospel, in order to the salvation of men? Do I resolve, …
Issue: Issue 8
SNARES AND DIFFICULTIES IN THE MINISTRY John Newton Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that you are ordained, and that the Lord is about to fix you in a place where there is prospect of your being greatly useful He has given you the desire of your heart; and I hope He has given …
GO AND DO THOU LIKEWISE A sermon preached on August 29th, 1999, by P. G. Watts at Rehoboth Chapel, Coventry. Luke 10.25-37 The Bible puts strong emphasis on the understanding. Paul says: ‘in understanding be men’. When it comes to unkindness or malice, he says, you can be like children, under-developed: but when it comes …
ADDRESSING THE UNCONVERTED John Newton Sir, In a late conversation, you desired my thoughts concerning a scriptural and consistent manner of addressing the consciences of unawakened sinners in the course of your ministry. It is a point on which many eminent ministers have been, and are not a little divided; and it therefore becomes me …
THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS Stanley Delves ‘For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God’. I Corinthians 1.18 In the text there are four points to consider: 1. What is, and what is not, meant by the Cross 2. …
DAILY BIBLE READING A normal healthy child will only grow if it is regularly supplied with food and drink. A healthy Christian will only ‘grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’, (2 Peter 3.18) if regularly supplied with spiritual food and drink. Hence the urgent need for daily …
HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE A sermon preached at Forest Fold Baptist Chapel, Crowborough, on November 17th, 1994. ‘Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.’ – Philippians 2:16 The subject for our consideration is briefly …