THE GOSPEL MINISTRY Notes of a Sermon by K. W. H. Howard. We shall consider the familiar words concerning our blessed Lord on the Emmaus Road. “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself”. Luke 24,27. The two disciples were despondent, lifeless, and …
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THE MINISTER’S FAINTING FITS The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. Our Sabbaths are our days of toil, and if we do not rest upon some other day we shall break down. Even the earth must lie fallow and have …
HOLY RESOLUTIONS “That in all I do, whether sacred or civil actions still may I be doing but one work, and driving on one design. That God may be pleased by me, and be glorified in me …. I strictly impose upon myself from day to day, never to lie down but in the name …
Believers are all for Christ, and Christ is all for believers. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
He hath all things who hath God, though he have nothing else; but he hath nothing who hath not God, though he have all things else. Ralph Venning 1620—1673.
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE It is a lamentable fact that the Christian experience of our age is very superficial. It is a rare occurrence to hear today of inward struggles that bear any resemblance in depth or power to those recorded by Paul in Romans 7. The knowledge of sin is limited; the feeling of guilt is …
ALFRED THE GREAT Alfred the Great, who died in the year 900, was of a most amiable disposition, and we would hope, of genuine piety. During his retreat at Athelney, in Somersetshire, after his defeat by the Danes, a beggar came to his little castle, and requested alms. His Queen informed Alfred that they had …
And I will give you pastors according to my heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.—Jer. iii. 15.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea the work of our hands establish thou it. Psalm 90 16 & 17.
THE MAJESTY OF GOD An address given by Col. D. V. Underwood at a meeting of the Sovereign Grace Union, at Bethersden, Kent, on November llth 1987. We must beware of intruding into these high and lofty themes of the sovereignty and majesty of God, any notions which we might gain from a consideration of …