HUMILITY The Apostle Paul was always deeply conscious of the immeasurable debt he owed to the amazing grace of God. That he was an Apostle and had received his high calling in a unique way from the ascended Christ never encouraged him to give way to pride. Writing in the first of his letters to …
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VISIONS AND RAPTURES I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago . . . such an one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Cor. 12.2). Visions, manifestations, raptures and ecstasies of soul, though even from God Himself (which there is every good reason to suspect, unless they sink the soul in humility, …
And he said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him verily I say unto thee today shall thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23.42/43.
CRUELTY DISARMED BY MEEKNESS A poor but godly woman, who had been much persecuted by her ungodly husband, after hearing the minister, upon whom she attended, preach on that precious promise, “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass” returned home with an uncommon enlargement of heart. As soon as she entered the house, her husband, …
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THE TRANSFIGURATION D. M. Adams The three accounts of the Transfiguration are found in Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-9 and Luke 9:28-36. Jesus took Peter, James, and John to a high mountain apart and was transfigured before them in an intense blaze of light. Moses and Elijah appeared and talked with him. Then a cloud overshadowed …
GOOD AND BAD SCIENCE Lecture Leicester 1969. Dr. J. W. Milner, B.Sc., Ph.D. In the last article I tried to show that it is impossible to reconcile the early chapters of the Bible and the theory of evolution by considering some of the attempts to do so that have been made. Since all of these …
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE “Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said”—”I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”—(John 11.25) What a voice is this breaking over a world which for six thousand years has been a dormitory of sin …
MOURNERS IN ZION Sermon. Openshaw, Manchester. W. Parks, B.A. 1843 to 1867 “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5.4. On last Sunday morning I related to you a most interesting case of a clergyman suffering under deep conviction of sin, or rather I should say of unbelief; for, though unbelief …