THINGS SURELY BELIEVED A baptismal sermon preached at Mt. Olivet Baptist Chapel, Sheffield, on April 4th 1976, and published by request. With the Lord’s help, we shall consider words in the first part of the first chapter of the Gospel according to Luke. There are two short phrases in these verses which will form the …
Issue: Issue 5
Luke 24. 47.And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem
The God of all grace, and all the grace of God, is engaged to keep the saints to eternal life. Ralph Venning
THE SIMPLICITY AND SAVING NATURE OF GOSPEL FAITH Some time after this it pleased the Lord to lay His hand on the surviving brother; who I can truly say was from the first day I became acquainted with him, a simple-hearted, godly, upright, honest man. But, before he fell into a deep decline and drew …
DR. J. H. MERLE D’AUBIGNE After I had begun to preach Christ, I was so assailed and perplexed on coming into Germany by the sophisms of rationalism, that I was plunged into unutterable distress, and passed whole nights without sleeping, crying to God, or endeavouring by arguments and syllogisms without end to repel the attack …
EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MATTHEW 17. 14-21 14. And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 15. Lord have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 16. …
EVIL COMPANY Sophronius, a wise teacher, would not suffer his children, even when grown up, to associate with those whose conduct was not morally pure and upright. “Dear father,” said his daughter Eulalia to him one day, when he forbade her, in company with her brother, to visit a thoughtless friend; “dear father, you must …
Success is the blessing of God on a good cause, and His curse on a bad. Ralph Venning
ANSWERED AT LAST I have often thought that John’s heavenly vision of golden vials filled with incense, the prayers of the saints, would contain many hundred thousands of prayers of parents for their children, especially of godly parents for ungodly children; for, amongst the millions of earnest petitions that daily ascend to the Throne, many …