WORSHIP IN SPIRIT Extracts from an address by Geoffrey Thomas* Today everybody knows about worship. So they imagine! They acknowledge that they- do not know about the Trinity, or about justification by faith, or about the person and work of Christ, but they are confident about their understanding of worship, because worship is what they …
Volume: Volume 12
A BIBLICAL APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22.6. 1. Parents must themselves be disciplined. 2. Let your pattern of discipline be that of the Bible. God loves His children and disciplines them. …
Finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitiful BE COURTEOUS: not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing: knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a b
THE GREAT GATHERING* by J. C. Ryle `Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thess. 2.1 The text which heads this page contains an expression which deserves no common attention. That expression is – `Our gathering together.’ `Our gathering together!’ Those …
God alone does what is good in us, and all the good actions which men perform are from His Spirit. J. Calvin
THE DUTY OF A GOSPEL MINISTER George Whitefield `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that …
THE LORD ADDING TO THE CHURCH Sermon preached 11th July 1999, Forest Fold, Crowborough We turn this morning to the Word of God in Acts chapter 2, part of the last verse in the chapter. The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2 and part of verse 47. ‘And the Lord added to the church daily …
DAILY BIBLE READING A normal healthy child will only grow if it is regularly supplied with food and drink. A healthy Christian will only ‘grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’, (2 Peter 3.18) if regularly supplied with spiritual food and drink. Hence the urgent need for daily …
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Thomas Adams