FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH On 19 February, 1984, Benjamin Walshaw of Brighouse, Yorkshire, the editor’s father-in-law, was taken to be with his Lord, having suffered a severe stroke four weeks previously. A long and deepening affection prompts this record of his life as a token of my respect and Christian love for a man I knew …
Issue: Issue 4
ORDER AND OVERSIGHT IN PUBLIC WORSHIP 1. Order in Worship The Biblical pattern for worship requires order. We have seen that God seeks worship that is acceptable to Him; also that our worship must be God-centred, doing that which God has appointed rather than what man likes better or judges to be an improvement. Scripture …
“Adam’s sin hurts none but those that are in him: and Christ’s blood profits none but those that are in Him.” John Flavel
“Adam’s sin hurts none but those that are in him: and Christ’s blood profits none but those that are in Him.” John Flavel
Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. Thomas Watson
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. – Heb. 10.25.
PREACHING IN PRISON Grigory Kostiuchenko, 49, was released April 1983 from his fourth term of imprisonment. Had you been at his welcome home party, you may have heard him relate this story of how God touched the hearts of criminals in his prison cell. Christ once said to His disciples, “If ye had known Me, …
THE FORCE OF TRUTH Thomas Scott (First published in 1779) II (continued)* About this time a new and unexpected effect was produced by my preaching. I had hitherto been satisfied to see people regularly frequent the church, listen attentively to what was discoursed, and lead moral, decent lives. The way in which I had been …
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his