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Trading and Thriving in Godliness: The Piety of George Swinnock, edited by J Stephen Yuille, published by Reformation Heritage Books, in the...

'The praises of the Lord, being well considered, will yield continually new matter, and fresh delight in the work' 'There is no ...

This book review is posted at www.middletome.com The Lord's Supper Malcolm Maclean 272pp paperback Isbn 13: 9781845504281 £10.99, 2009 C...

The Puritans wrote much on both meditation and prayer separately, but they always emphasised that both are mutually indispensible. What is m...

Unfortunately one comes across those who foolishly assert that Samson committed suicide. This is impossible since Hebrews 11:34 tells us tha...

The Puritan Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664). said: "Let a man have what the world can give, yet if he have not Christ, he is nothing worth. ...

Some of the media have more respect for God's Word than those who want to go by the name of Christian and church. Under the headline : ...

Psalmody is the calm of the soul, the repose of the spirit, the arbiter of peace: it silences the wave, and conciliates the whirlwind of our...

Like all slogans, the phrase "all of life is worship" is based on an element of truth but as a simplistic generalisation it is ess...

We were encouraged that a BBC Article closed with these words from Rev. Dr James Tallach which express more clearly the point that I was wi...

Robert McCheyne's lament over the Parisian Sabbath was: " Alas ! poor Paris knows no Sabbath. All the shops are open, and all the i...

Thomas Goodwin in his invaluable treatise on Patience and its Perfect Work says, 'if you now ask a description of patience, as it thus r...

In the midst of the Calvin commemorations one aspect of his teaching will be conveniently forgotten because it doesn't sit well with mos...

"God's will is the highest and first cause of all things, for nothing can happen apart from God's command or permission" (...

Experimental preaching is the overflow of the preacher's experience of the Word of God to meet the experience of those to whom he preach...

Sanctification is a constant, progressive renewing of the whole man, whereby the new creature doth daily more and more die unto sin and live...

Thomas Boston has these solemn considerations in relation to our reading and hearing (i.e. hearing sermons) of the Word of God.   In readi...

There are many attempts to redefine the regulative principle of worship viz. that "the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is in...

This is a matter that is to be settled ultimately by Scripture. We bring worldly assumptions into this area at great peril to the church of ...

It is reasonably well known that Robert Bruce, the Scottish minister of the second generation of Reformers, emphasised that grace received t...

The subject of litigation among Christians, and even the relation which they stand in to one another as such, render the adjustment of their...

To the Right Honourable Gordon Brown Prime Minister MP. Dear Prime Minister, I was most encouraged to learn that you had a " presbyteri...

These words from a priest in Ireland, in relation to the industrial home abuses carried out on children by Roman Catholic orders in the 20th...

"One day when he [Samuel Rutherford] was preaching in Edinburgh," says Robert Woodrow, "after dwelling for some time on the d...

Although Carl Trueman seems to have a more shrewd insight into what makes the Church of Scotland evangelical tick, several Free Church mini...

This is what is behind the accurate Scotsman headline 'Kirk orders ban on gay minister debate'. Evangelicals adhere to what the ordi...

This is an addition to the previous post commenting on the recent debate.   What we see is that when Scripture is abandoned, all wisdom an...