TIME FOR SECRET PRAYER Thomas Brooks The times wherein we live call aloud for secret prayer. Hell seems to be broken loose, and men turned into incarnate devils; land-destroying and soul-damning wickedness walk up and down the streets with a whore’s forehead, without the least check or control, Jeremiah 6.15, `Were they ashamed when they …
Issue: Issue 6
WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD C. H. Spurgeon God’s people are always safe. But God’s people are only safe through the blood of Christ. They are bought with the precious blood of Christ. Nothing can hurt them because ‘the blood’ is upon them. It was so that night in Egypt; God spared because He saw …
WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH? Thomas Boston Among all the elders who have through faith obtained a good report, there is none more remarkable than Elijah the Tishbite. He was a person altogether extraordinary. In his exercise and experience he was singularly distinguished. His experiences were powerful encouragements to the people of God …
A DYING TESTIMONY From Youth’s Living Ideals of the U.S.A. A touching story is told concerning the singing of part of that well-known hymn by Cowper, ‘There is a fountain filled with blood.’ A young man, suffering from cancer, was about to undergo an operation in one of the large hospitals in Scotland. When the …
THE UNCHANGING CHRIST J. C. Ryle ‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.’ Hebrews 13.8 Always the same, unchanging — that is a glorious character; a character which belongs to nothing that is of the earth, earthy; a character which He alone deserves who is the Lord from heaven. What of this …
THE STORY OF A REVIVAL Walter C. Brehaut The Island of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, is roughly in the form of a triangle. At its north-western angle is the parish of Saint Pierre-du-Bois (St. Peter-in-the-Wood). At the extreme northwest tip of the parish is a locality called L’Eree, or Les Sablons …
PSALM 1 A prayer-meeting address by Mr. G. Rose, of Croydon. The Word of God gives us a description of how things are in the sight of God, and none but God’s Word can do that. That is the true perspective of our condition; not what man thinks of us, if he does not get …
EDITOR’S NOTES In the mercy of God it has been possible to continue the publication of Gospel Tidings through another year and the Publishers send their heartfelt thanks to all who have encouraged us with their letters and gifts. Above all we give thanks to the God of all grace for His help in all …
CONTRASTING LIVES Sermon preached by Mr Jonathan Northern, December 2006 I want us to consider together the contrasting life of Lot and his Uncle Abraham. You may remember that we have been looking together at the Sermon on the Mount, and for the last two weeks we have been looking at the warning — ‘Do …