Yearly Archives: 2002

The way of knowing more of God lay in a renewed determination to move closer to God. If he is gong to comprehend more of God he has to get as close as he can to God. This is good procedure by David Carmichael [At the annual Revival and Reformation Conference held in Swanwick November […]

TESTIMONY OF A YOUNG MAN For about 6 months before this camp I had been troubled in my mind about questions such as ‘Is there really a God?’ and ‘How can I know for sure?’ by Gary Brady [The following testimony was given by a young man of 16 at a recent meeting in a […]

GOD’S ETERNAL, HOLY LAWby John Peter Bodner 1 God’s eternal, holy Law Saint and sinner, hear with awe: Ten Commandments God alone With His finger wrote in stone. 2 What doth He require of thee? Love to God , and charity To thy neigbbour , this with all Heart, and strength, and mind and soul. […]

Spurgeon once said that Methodism was a noble thing for the unconverted but terrible for the children of God. The same observation might be made of Anabaptism. Just as Spurgeon was converted at a Primitive Methodist chapel, I was awakened from spiritual darkness through sermons from an Anabaptist tape ministry. I even learned much from […]

Ads show that many churches have done their “market research” and are offering worship services tailored to the expectations of their target audience (or market share) by William Smith When Susan and I were in British Columbia last summer, I followed a newspaper story about a woman who had been denied marriage in a Roman […]

THE CHALLENGE OF JESUS CHRIST But Matthew’s gospel has nothing to do with the way you feel. It is presenting to us a record of historical facts that here is a man who was sent into this world by God, by your God and Lord.by Geoff Thomas In every way the challenge of the four […]

NOURISH EVERY GRACE Also you have to feed your love. This is the most indispensable of all the graces without which we are nothing.by Geoff Thomas God has filled the life of the Christian with all the glorious young plants of faith, love, assurance, peace and joy. Maybe at the moment of your conversion God […]

A Letter to the Sniper October 23, 2002 by John Piper To the Sniper, I write as a pastor concerned for your soul and for the lives of your victims. I base what I say on the Bible, God’s word. I think this is what Jesus Christ would want you to read. May he use […]

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY How then does Rowan Williams arrive at this perverse and paradoxical conclusion which contradicts the orthodox and Biblical teaching on this subject? by David N. Samuel "The Body’s Grace", is a lecture that was given by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to the Lesbian and Gay […]

PROPHECY SHALL CEASE Though building on the foundation begun by John Calvin and John Owen, Jonathan Edwards took the development of the Reformed doctrine of cessationism to new heights Jonathan Edwards on the Cessation of the Gifts of Prophecy. In the current Westminster Theological Journal (Vol. 64, No. 1 Spring 2002) Philip A. Craig has […]

COMPLETE IN CHRIST The following blessings are the possession of every single believer in the Lord Jesus Christ:- by Joseph Randall You are justified and have peace with God (Rom. 5:1) You died with Christ and to the power of sin’s rule over your life (Rom. 6:1-6) You are free from condemnation forever (Rom. 8:1) […]

GOD MADE THE STARS ALSO God’s understanding has to be infinite in order to count and name all 10 to the power of 22 stars. by Dr Monty White These words "He made the stars also" are found in the very first chapter of the Bible in the sixteenth verse. The writer Moses, has just […]

TEN MORE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR CHURCH’S WORSHIP SERVICE by Don Whitney 1. Plan worship only for people who can worship. Many churches plan their worship services as though unbelievers can worship. But the Apostle Paul makes plain in 1 Corinthians 12:3 that "no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit." […]

DR. ERIC HOBSBAWM: SELF- ACKNOWLEDGED SERVANT OF KARL MARX His identity is the Lord, the Master and Sovereign of the Universe, but now there is something new, he is the one who in addition becomes a servant by Geoff Thomas How did the Son of God appear when he came to earth? Like Superman? No. […]

THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN BOOKS We had begun reading Sermons on Ephesians when both of us became convinced independently that God was telling us to read the 200 sermons Calvin preached on the book of Deuteronomy by John Keble My wife Irene’s background is different from mine in that she was born and brought up […]

BELARUS: EUROPE’S MOST REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW GOES FOR FINAL SIGNATURE by Felix Corley, Keston News Service Following the adoption this morning (2 October) by the upper house of the Belarusian parliament of the controversial amendments to the country’s religion law (see KNS article earlier today), the bill now goes to President Aleksandr Lukashenko for signature. […]

FACING DARK DAYS Many of us perhaps have little idea what it must be like to be in the depths of despair. by Ian Hamilton Sometimes Christians fall into the depths of despair. An extreme example would be Jeremiah, God’s faithful prophet. We can hardly imagine the inner anguish that caused him to cry out, […]

TOM WRIGHT’S VIEW OF JUSTIFICATION: AN ECUMENICAL INTERPRETATION OF PAUL Wright does admit that there are other important elements to the gospel than the mere proclamation that Jesus is Lord. For example, he places the cross at the center of Paul’s gospel by Dr. Sidney D. Dyer N.T. Wright is an Anglican whose works have […]

A VISIT TO ALBANIA My wife Anne and I returned on Monday from Albania where I was speaking at a conference. A week in Albania seemed a very long time. It’s a wonderful, tragic, beautiful, confusing country. Perhaps the most beautiful country I’ve ever seen. The astonishing blue of the Adriatic sea, the towering mountains, […]

THE CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE I started to think of myself as that elder son who had never doubted the existence of the Heavenly Father but wasn’t really walking in faith in an active way any more. Miss Condoleezza Rice (47) is the American National Security Advisor. She has reached the highest political office […]

JOEL BEEKE IN KOREA – PART 1 "I can’t get enough of Reformed theology," he said. "I’m convinced it’s biblical and is the right answer for the shallow Christianity I find in my congregation." September 25, 2002 We have had a wonderful trip to Korea. Here is a brief summary of our itinerary. Bracketed parts […]

JOEL BEEKE IN KOREA – PART 2 The Koreans love to sing. Some of their psalters and hymnbooks include English translations, so we could often sing along at the various lectures Mary Beeke writes: [Lois Mol, Myoung Jah, and I attended most of the KIRP conference, and did some sightseeing. We toured two palaces and […]

CHARLES G. FINNEY: THE ARCHITECT OF MODERN EVANGELISM He tried methods no one else would and almost everything he tried worked. by Thomas R. Browning [Part of larger work entitled "C.G.Finney: The Architect of Modern Evangelism," presented by the writer to the Department of Pastoral Ministries of Dallas Theological Seminary in April 2001] When the […]

ADDRESSING THE UNCONVERTED It is true, the Lord can, and I hope He often does, make that preaching effectual to the conversion of sinners, wherein little is said expressly to them, only the truths of the gospel are declared in their hearing by John Newton Sir, In a late conversation, you desired my thoughts concerning […]

QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MINISTERS by Isaac Watts, D.D. 1] OF FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY. Do I sincerely give myself ‘to the ministry of the word;’ Acts 6.4. and do I design to make it the chief business of my life to serve Christ in His Gospel, in order to the salvation of men? Do I […]