Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Matt. 53.
Issue: Issue 3
Travailing in Birth for Souls. Gal. 4.19. What contradictions meet In ministers’ employ! It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy: No other post affords a place – For equal honour or disgrace! Who can describe the pain Which faithful preachers feel, Constrained to speak in vain, To hearts as hard as steel! …
PAST & PRESENT MINISTERS COMPARED J. C. Ryle, 1816-1900 Would we know why the ministers who profess to follow the evangelical fathers are so much less successful than they were? The question is a delicate and interesting one, and ought not to be shelved. The suspicion naturally crosses some minds, that the doctrines which won …
THE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN Part of a letter by John Newton 1725-1807 The Christian’s temper God-ward is evidenced by humility. He has received from Gethsemane and Golgotha such a sense of the evil of sin, and of the holiness of God, combined with His matchless love to sinners, as has deeply penetrated his heart; …
AN OLDER PASTORÂ’S ADVICE July 5th, 1967 My dear Friend, I want to write you a letter, if so be, as grace is given, to strengthen your hands in God in all your labours, and in the varied experiences you must needs pass through to be what is your heartfelt desire— “The Lord’s messenger in …
The doctrine of a minister must credit his life, and his life adorn his doctrine. Jean Daille
THE SINS OF CHRISTIANS When God elected His people in Christ, and reconciled them to Himself in Him, He foresaw all the evil that would be in them both before and after their conversion; and if this did not prevent His choosing and calling them, it never can be the cause of His casting them …