Self Promoting Preachers “He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.” (John 7:18) Multitudes there are, like Diotrephes, who fill the pulpits of churches in every age. Craving the honour of men and loving to […]
Reformation? I hear a lot about “reformation” in our day. There are reformed churches, reformed doctrine, reformed preachers and reformed believers, everything seems to be “reformed.” The word “reform” means to “improve or to make better.” If “reformation” means to improve myself or make myself better, then, I do not need reformation! What I need […]
His children began to hiss! (Excerpts from the letters of William Tiptaft) Dear brother, 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 […]
BELIEVING WITH THE HEART There is no learning of Christ apart from Divine Truth (Matt. 11:28-30; John 17:3; II Cor. 4:6; I John 5:20), yet one may be able to summarise and recite all of the revealed facts concerning Christ and His accomplished redemption and still be unreconciled to God and under His curse. What […]
The plan today is to make the church as much like the world as possible, so that unregenerate people will not feel uncomfortable and will be attracted to its ministry! Turn the church into a theater; worship into a musical display; ministers into actors and clowns to amuse and entertain; sermons into political, patriotic, or philosophical […]
Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats An evil resides in the professed camp of the Lord so gross in its imprudence that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an abnormal rate evil for evil. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments. […]
OUR LORD HERE COMMANDS US TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM BABYLON, THE GREAT WHORE. Again, I stress the fact that Babylon is not a literal city. And it certainly is not a literal woman. Babylon is all false religion in this world. It is the mother of all idolatry and abominable doctrine of the earth. Babylon […]
Their religion is hollow, unsubstantial, and unreal l (From Winslow’s, “Christ’s Intercession for Tried Faith”) the most accurate creed, The most beautiful ritual, the most costly religion, the most splendid profession, without Christ in the heart, is but as fuel preparing for the final and eternal conflagration. What, my reader, if your religion should prove […]
False faith! (Don Fortner) There is a false faith in which multitudes are confidently resting. There is a false faith by which multitudes are deceived and will perish for ever in Hell. A false faith may be greatly enlightened and knowledgeable in gospel truth (Heb. 6:4). A false faith excites the affections (Stony Ground Hearers). […]
A fictitious god? Winslow’s, “The Enmity of the Carnal Mind” “The carnal mind is enmity against God.” Romans 8:7 How completely this declaration sweeps away all the fancied reverence and admiration for God which floats before the imagination of the carnal mind in its profound slumber! The carnal mind may own its belief in the […]