PREACHING AND THE DANGER OF COMPROMISE In considering this very practical subject I think that a study of Paul as the ideal preacher, noting especially his methods and his principles, will be helpful to us. From Galatians 1 we can gather certain principles which weighed with the Apostle in this matter. Two things especially are …
Issue: Issue 6
PARTICULAR QUESTIONS A few particular questions about frequenting the public house. Will drinking improve your health? Have you any right to damage your health? Do you like to see drunkards? How can you be sure that you will not become addicted to drink? Is it right deliberately to weaken your self control? Does the conversation …
THE TEST I am sure you will admit, with me, that as the Lord’s saving visit to Zacchaeus prompted him at once to assail his besetting sin of covetousness, by saying, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, …
A BIRTHDAY LETTER My dear Friend, In the beginning everything was dark and disorderly until ‘the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters’. O how true of our condition, and as I attempt a few lines a deep sense of need is present that the blessed Spirit will occasion something profitable to …
EVERY NEED SUPPLIED Sermon “Mount Zion” Chapel, Watford, Herts. Mr. H. Crowter 21st June, 1969 “And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, ‘They have no wine’.” John 2, v. 3. This is a portion of Holy Scripture often repeated at the time when two are joined together in matrimony. You …
THE FALL OF MAN “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Rom. 3.23. In accordance with my promise, I am now about to refresh your memories upon the leading doctrines of the Word of God. You all very well know that I am not one to exalt doctrine above practice: they …
BAPTISM Discovered Plainly and Faithfully, According to the WORD of GOD, WHEREIN Is set forth the Glorious Pattern of our Blessed Saviour JESUS CHRIST, the Pattern of all Believers in his Subjection to Baptism. Together with the Example of Thousands who were Baptized after they Believed. By JOHN NORCOTT This short book on the subject …
THE FIERY FURNACE We live in a day when, for the most part, a Christian witness and testimony is very little regarded and at times calls down the hatred of a sinful world on those who seek to maintain it. Realizing that, let us draw some lessons from the well-known, yet perhaps often neglected, narrative …
THE SILENCE OF GOD (2)* There is a silence, or an apparent silence of God in some of His providential dealings with one and another of His people. They seem so mysterious that to the eye of sense God’s moral government of the world is strangely uneven. The wicked are often rich and prosperous, and …