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Of the church of the New Testament it was prophesied, that God would give them one way as well as one heart, Jer. xxxii. 39; that there shal...

The Church's Ruling Elders: Their History, Warrant and Work, George G. Hutton, 2007, Inverness, 152pp., pbk. £7, (available from Free Pr...

Although in our day some people have little time for the unity of the Church and do not worry about questions of schism, they are vitally im...

Extract from a sermon by the late Rev. Donald MacFarlane, Dingwall, on Mark 10:28-30. It is always the duty of those who would follow Christ...

Further extracts from Thomas Boston sermon I shall point out some of the causes of the scarcity of experimental religion. 1. The Lord has a ...

But I shall give more particular directions towards attaining experimental religion. 1. Fix your eyes on the particular evils of your heart ...

The love of novelty is being taken up with whatever is new, simply because it is new. We ought to recognise that it is part of our corrupted...

More extracts from Thomas Boston's sermon. (1.) The experimental Christian is fitted thereby to suffer for Christ, because he has the te...

From a sermon on the experimental knowledge of Christ by Thomas Boston. 1. Experimental religion is a sort of heaven on earth. Heaven is the...

Genesis 12:5 'and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came'. What is the believer's ...

There is much encouragment in this sermon by James Durham on the text Isaiah 53:12. And made intercession for the transgressors. Encouragem...

Tony Blair has announced that he wants to encourage inter-faith cooperation in his retirement. He "plans to act as an ambassador for m...

I was very pleased to find that the Works of Thomas Goodwin are now all online . Here is an excerpt. Our God being love, even love itself, ...

For their "Sunday Worship" programme the BBC decided to broadcast a service from the Roman Catholic Parish of Most Holy Redeemer, ...

On 1 May 1707 England and Scotland became the ‘United Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN’. The new united kingdom was to be represented by a ‘union’ f...

N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham and theologian, seems very confused. First of all he rightly rejected out of hand the recent remarks by Jeffre...

Various people have begun to comment on the dreadful massacre at Virginia Tech University. A particularly insightful one is here . The BBC w...

Roman Catholicism still reveres those that it calls "the saints". The political capital that the Pope makes from this and the uns...

The best and surest way to please God, and gain a cheerful quiet heart in the way to heaven is, to walk with God in uprightness, (through fa...

The life of Christianity consists very much in our love to Christ. Withoutlove to Christ, we are as much without spiritual life as a carcass...