MELODY AND HARMONY* Extracts from a Sermon preached on Sunday morning, 29th November, 1959, in Westminster Chapel, London, by Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. ‘Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.’ Ephesians 5.19. Spiritual Song Now, we come on to the second part …
Issue: Issue 3
An account of John Morris of the Wolds Leicestershire taken from a letter written by the Rev. Robert Walker to his brother-in-law the Rev. J. S. Sergeant.
NATIONAL SINS AND JUDGEMENTS A modernised and abbreviated version of a sermon by Dr. John Owen preached in 1679. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they …
‘THIS IS THE FINGER OF GOD’ Bishop J. C. Ryle (First published in 1865 and heavily abridged by Rev. Gregory McCammon) These words fell from the lips of ancient Egyptian magicians when one of the famous plagues came on their land. They said unto Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God” (Ex. 8:19). It would …
The Spirit finds sinners in such a helpless condition, that they are as unable to repent or believe, as they are to purchase salvation.
We have heard with our ears O God our fathers have told us what work Thou didst in their days in the times of old. How Thou didst drive out the heathen with Thy hand and plantedst them; how Thou didst afflict the people and cast them out. For they
PREACHING AND PRAYER There are two extreme tendencies in the ministry. The one is to shut itself out from intercourse with the people. The monk, the hermit were illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with God. They failed, of course. Our being with God is of use only as …
URGENT PRAYER From “Our Seal”, an account of the China Inland Mission by Marshall Broomhall. Now followed an emergency, swift and comprehensive, which was to test the Mission in the most searching manner. Sunday, April 3,1927, is a day which will long be remembered by the Executive of the Mission in Shanghai, for on that …
CONCERN IN PRAYER A letter to the church at Knighton, Leicester from their Pastor. Dear Friends, One of the many ‘pointers’ which ultimately directed me to Knighton was an experience in the church prayer meeting when I visited the church last year. It was at the Sunday evening prayer meeting prior to the evening service. …
PUBLIC PRAYER Prayer is an important element in all religious service. Not only is it vital to the individual Christian life, its importance in social religion is scarcely less important. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you,” was the positive declaration of …