Wise Counsel for Preachers to Follow The year was 1768. A young preacher by the name of Augustus Toplady, who wrote many of our best hymns, including “Rock of Ages”, spent the afternoon in London with an older, veteran Gospel preacher, whom he greatly admired and from whom he learned much. The older preacher was […]

His children began to hiss! Since I last wrote, I have preached in Abingdon Great Church, on Christmas evening. I preached the truth, I trust, to a very crowded congregation, supposed to be (sitting and standing, who were able to get in) about 5,000 people. I pleased the believers; but very much displeased the carnally-minded, who were […]

THE DISTINGUISHING GRACE OF GOD by Don Fortner “ For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” 1 Cor. 4:7 The only difference between the believer and the unbeliever, between the righteous […]

The sacrifice under the old covenant on the Day of Atonement was a type. A type means it was “as if” the sins of the people were put on the goat. A shadow means God treated the goat “as if” he were sin. A picture means God regarded the sacrifice “as if” sin had been […]

“…NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH…” II Peter 3:9 In this passage of scripture Peter is comforting the children of God with the assurance of Christ’s second advent.  If you will read the chapter carefully, you will observe that the apostle makes a clear and deliberate distinction between “us” who believe and the scoffers who […]

Divine Foreknowledge By Arthur Pink “Great is our Lord, and of great power. His understanding is infinite.” Psalm 147:5 God not only knows whatsoever has happened in the past in every part of His vast domains, and He is not only thoroughly acquainted with everything that is now transpiring throughout the entire universe, but he is […]

The love of God! Spurgeon, “The Love of God and the Patience of Christ” “May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God…” 2 Thes. 3:5 Believer, God loves you as much as if there were nobody else in all the world to love! God can pour the infinite love of His heart upon one […]

There is no attribute more comforting to His children, than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials—they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend, […]

Only trust in the love of Christ.–Never was there before–nor has there been since–nor ever will be again–such ancient, marvelous, stupendous love as the love of Jesus! It is the astonishment of heaven, it is the wonder of angels, and in their best, holiest, and most self-abased moments, it is the marvel of saints on earth, […]

God Sees No Sin In His People “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.” Numbers 23:21 These words do not suggest that there was no sin or perverseness in Israel. There was an abundance of perverseness among them; but the Lord God did not mark the sins of […]