Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5.7.
Issue: Volume 07
Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? Acts 19.2.
In the last day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying. If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit which
And it came to pass while He blessed them. He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. Luke 24.51.
MY SINS Thomas Halyburton I determined to humble myself distinctly for every one of them, and to make a distinct application to the throne of grace about each; but when I began to observe them, they were so many that if I had followed this course, my whole time would not have sufficed. I was …
FAMILY DISCIPLINE Writing to the Hebrew Christians the Apostle speaks at length on the subject of family discipline, beginning in chapter 12 verse 5. It is the Lord’s discipline of His children that is the principal subject of the following six verses, which immediately tell us that the believer has a heavenly Father who is …
CHURCH DISCIPLINE Stuart Olyott* Properly speaking, an article on ‘Church Discipline’ should concern itself with discussing the whole government and rule of the church. But the concern of this article is with one aspect only of this rather complex subject. We are not here dealing with formative or preventive discipline, but with corrective discipline – …
CORRECTIVE DISCIPLINE Having laid down the lines of approach to the subject, we must next consider what corrective discipline actually involves. The Scriptures reveal three ways of reclaiming wandering sheep, and we shall briefly examine each of them in turn. 1. Admonition The chief means of keeping heavenly pilgrims in the way, but the most …