CHRIST GAVE PASTORS AND TEACHERS Notes of a sermon by R. M. M’Cheyne preached in 1842. `And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.’ Ephesians 4.11-13. These words lead you and me to inquire into the end of the ministry. It is for this reason that I …
Issue: Issue 5
BROWNLOW NORTH’S CONVERSION Extracts from Brownlow North by K. Moody-Stuart The 12th of August, 1854, found Mr. North busy once more upon the Dallas moors; and to show that his hand had not yet lost its cunning, on the 14th, after the other sportsmen had all started for distant beats, he went out, and with …
BROWNLOW NORTH’S LAST DAYS Mrs.Campbell continues: ‘On Sunday night he had preached a very arousing discourse upon the awfulness of sin and of God’s wrath, addressed to the unconverted. His two discourses on Wednesday and Friday were addressed more to the Lord’s people. He was quiet, and spoke much of the blessedness of the Christian …
THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL IN STANLEY DELVES’ CONVERSION Extracted from Preaching Peace by Peter M. Rowell The Harmer’s new shop-boy however proved to be diligent and very interested in the business, and Stanley himself soon began to feel that his future lay in the grocery trade rather than the Police Force. One feature of …
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A BLACK COUNTRY CONVERSION Extracted from Remembered Mercies Recorded by George Rose One Lord’s day afternoon in the year 1890, when I was seventeen years of age, was the time appointed that I should be convinced of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. Mr. Edwin Greenwood, of Halifax, was the preacher, and the subject was …
SOME UNUSUAL CONVERSIONS from The Days of the Father in Ross-shire by J. Kennedy A Death-bed Scene `Having got anxious about a sick neighbour,’ he writes, ‘whom I had been visiting, I went for the doctor to examine her, and he found that a deadly disease was making such rapid progress that she had only …
SERMON NOTES From Princeton Sermons by Charles Hodge D.D. Conviction of Sin [February 3rd, 1861] What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God. The Law of God is the eternal rule of rectitude. It is a revelation of what is right, of what rational creatures should …
THE BEST HEIFER Among those who came from Urray was a woman notorious for her kindness to the poor, and for her love to the people of the Lord. Her husband was a farmer in comfortable circumstances, but he did not share in the fervent charity of his wife. Anxious on one occasion to show …
ON CONVERSION AS OUR AIM Extracted from Lectures to my Students by C. H. Spurgeon The grand object of the Christian ministry is the glory of God. Whether souls are converted or not, if Jesus Christ be faithfully preached, the minister has not laboured in vain, for he is a sweet savour unto God as …