“Assurance would make us active and lively in God’s service: it would excite prayer, quicken obedience. Faith would make us walk, but assurance would make us run—we should think we could never do enough for God. Assurance would be as wings to the bird, as weights to the clock, to set all the wheels of …
Issue: Issue 4
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP A lecture given by Peter Cordle of Coventry at Forest Fold, Crowborough, on September 17,1996. 1. General Principles The dictionary gives at least three different uses of the word steward. A steward can be an official at a big public occasion. He can be the person who cares for the needs of a …
THE DARK VALLEY D. A. Doudney Tuesday Evening, March 9th, 1841—I am resting this night, without a single ray of other hope or comfort, upon the Lord. as “mighty to save,” and able to bring out of six and even out of seven troubles. All around is dark and gloomy. Not a single ray of …
A BROTHER BELOVED A Short Appreciation of the life and work of Stanley Delves who died on March 3rd 1978. Stanley Delves was born in 1897, the youngest of four sons of a Sussex craftsman, at Rushlake Green in the parish of Warbleton. His childhood memories of rural Sussex with its marked social classes in …
Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith. Today if ye will hear his voice. Harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness. Hebrews 3.7-8
IS THE WORD OF GOD COMPLETE What is the status of the Word of God? Is it complete or not? Is it really the faith once delivered, or is it still being revealed to us? The most serious error of the charismatic movement is that its ideas about prophecy and miracles strike at the very …
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1.11.
A NEW DEPARTURE Extracts from an address to ministers and students by C. H. Spurgeon, first published in 1900, more recently republished by The Banner of Truth in 1960, ‘An all round Ministry.’ Beloved fellow-servants of Christ, our work requires us to be in the best possible condition of heart. When we are at our …
As Joseph said, “You shall not see my face unless you bring your brother Benjamin with you,” so prayer cannot see God’s face unless it brings its brother Faith with it. Thomas Watson