VOL 18 N0.4 Gospel Tidings APRIL 2004 GOD’S CREATION Sermon preached by Mr. D. G. Crowter on Lord’s Day morning 6th January 1991 at Gower Street Memorial Chapel, London. ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’ Genesis 1.1. With these plain and majestic words God’s revelation to man begins. He does not …
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REALITY J. C. Ryle ‘Reprobate silver.’ Jeremiah 6.30; ‘Nothing but leaves.’ Mark 11.13; ‘Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.’ 1 John 3.18; ‘Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.’ Revelation 3.1 If we profess to have any religion at all, let us take …
COMFORT FOR THE CHURCH A Sermon by Thomas Watson, 1620-1686.* ‘God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved.’ Psalm 46.5 Solomon said, ‘A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver,’ Proverbs 25.11. In which regard I have made choice of this Scripture, which may be a …
THIS PRESENT EVIL AGE Foreword The following poem was written during the last World War, but is relevant today. The selfish ambition of men in high positions is causing unrest and even war. The peace men desire is still far off, as a world- achievement. Truth is trodden down, the ‘evolution’ fable is credulously accepted, …
REST IN CHRIST J. Newton, 1725-1807. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11.28 The learned have a variety of arguments whereby to prove the Scripture to be the word of God. But though that kind of proof, which may be brought in a …
LOVEST THOU ME? John 21.16 1) Hark, my soul! it is the Lord; ‘Tis thy Saviour, hear his word; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee: “Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?” 2) “I delivered thee when bound, And when wounded healed thy wound; Sought thee wandering, set thee right, Turned thy darkness into light. 3) …
THE FADING LEAF AND ITS MESSAGE’ ‘We all do fade as a leaf.’ Isaiah 64.6. Whatever we may think of this verse as a text, it is regularly seasonable, and falling leaves bear their own message to us. Each season of the year has its corresponding season in human life; each phase in nature has …
THE BREATH OF GOD Our breath can warm our hands when they are cold, So numbed, that they an object could not hold, When they are warmed, the blood can freely flow, Quicken the pulse, and make the fingers glow And when the fire is getting very low, It soon revives when with our breath …