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Tonight we are going to observe the New Covenant counterpart of the Old Covenant Passover. We are going to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. This morning I want to answer the question, "What does this mean?" by William Smith You may have heard the story of the little Catholic boy who accompanied his Protestant friend to […]

God’s sovereignty means He does what He wants to do, when He wants to do it and without having to give an explanation for why He did it. Most of our church members give verbal assent to the sovereignty of God, even agreeing with this definition. by Roger Ellsworth Every pastor knows the difficulty of […]

In order to fulfill our call, each May, Passaggio holds a national conference where more then 200 of evangelicals from the North join together to hear the Word of God. by Andrea Artioli As you know Italy has never been touched by Reformation because the Catholic Church killed all our reformers during the 16th cent. […]

Calvinism isn’t a produce stand from which we can pick and choose which doctrines we wish to keep and pass over the rest in a sort of hermeneutical reprobation. Calvinism is an interwoven system of theology which must be accepted or rejected as a whole. I can still remember the relief I felt when I, […]

Disney has understood that much of the contemporary Church Growth Movement is about entertainment. Why support an entire church building with a not-so-good praise band and food court when customers can have great Gospel entertainment and food for the commitment of a $30.00 ticket byJack Cascione Southern California religion is as diverse as its population. […]

Conscious of the sovereignty of our Lord, that he is also the Lord of the harvest, we go on praying and preaching the good news of the Gospel. We are sure that the Lord will establish his work as in the past, and in spite of the main difficulties of this century, the Lord will […]

The biblical command to persevere is one that we all continually need. It is a call to faithfulness, and yet it is also an affirmation that somehow, in spite of our failures, God will bring His committed people through the difficulties and concerns of life to their promised destiny in Christ by David Cassells A […]

As our western society sinks ever deeper into materialism and hedonism, the church must take an uncompromising stand, as Paul did on Mars Hill, and confront the secular establishment with the truth by Dr. David N. Samuel, Devizes, Wiltshire The prevailing philosophy and outlook of our age is secular and materialistic. This view has gained […]

Edwards’s careful analysis of genuine faith emphasized, in sum, that it was not the quantity of emotions which indicated the presence of true spirituality, but the origin of such emotions with God and their manifestation in works in accord with the law of God. Mostyn Roberts of Welwyn spoke aat the Leicester Conference of the […]

None of our family relations will be right unless we fear God. This is the soul of godliness – fearing Him by DEREK THOMAS OF REFORMED SEMINARY, JACKSON, MS. In marriage sin and reconciliation operate in its communion, in the fellowship of the ring. Paul’s view of marriage is that the church exists as the […]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones was right when he said that "if your preaching of the gospel of Gods’ free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism you’re not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ." by Ian Hamilton NO OTHER GOSPEL The previous article dealt with […]

let us be encouraged with the knowledge that our wise and loving heavenly Father is committed to and knows how to plant and cultivate perfect desires in His beloved children by William Harrell It is common for a pastor to hear various members of his flock lament over the apparent disinclination the Lord has to […]

What comfort can we have from a belief system that maintains that we are the result of hundreds of millions of years of illness, pain, suffering and death – for this is what evolution teaches. This is in contrast with the Biblical teaching that death is the result of Adam’s sin, and that one day […]

(Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference 2003) by Ian Hamilton, Cambridge. Do you know the sheep? I was once in a fine church talking to a godly elder who wept saying, "This is the first pastoral visit I have had in 18 years." If you are not convicted of pastoral visiting then you are not fit […]

The great question that confronts us all is: how can a holy and righteous God ever be reconciled to unholy and unrighteous sinners? How can I ever be put right with God? How can the holy One who inhabits eternity ever be righteously reconciled to me, a judgment-deserving sinner? by Ian Hamilton "OUR GREATEST NEED" […]