SIN, HOLINESS AND THE SAVIOUR J. C. Ryle Extracted from “Holiness” SIN A Scriptural view of sin is one of the best antidotes to that vague, dim, misty, hazy kind of theology which is so painfully current in the present age. It is vain to shut our eyes to the fact that there is a …
Issue: Volume 05
HIGHLAND PREACHERS AND BELIEVERS In a fascinating book entitled “The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire”, first published in 1861, the Rev. John Kennedy of Dingwall (1819-84) describes the development of religious life in the Highlands of Scotland during the eighteenth century. Short portraits are given of notable ministers and outstanding believers in Ross-shire. He …
CHRIST CONFESSED Religion consists, in a great measure, in the secret intercourse of the soul with God; in those acts of adoration, gratitude, confidence and submission which the eye of man cannot see, and with which the stranger cannot intermeddle. These secret exercises by controlling the external conduct, and by supplying the motives for the …
How glad would you be of enjoying time to hear the voice of peace when you are entering upon eternity, who are not at leisure now to hear divine precepts while in the possession of time. Bartholomew Ashwood (1622-78)
Think it not strange that God makes thy pleasant roses pricking briars and thorns to thee, who hast made them spikes and swords to Him. Bartholomew Ashwood (1622-78)
HE THAT GIVETH TO THE POOR LENDETH TO THE LORD I had been preaching at Stansted, and, after sermon, visited a house where affliction had entered like a flood. The daughter who had requested me to call was confined with a white swelling on the knee, her sister had cancer, her mother was prostrate with …