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As you may know 2014 marks the 500th centenary (as far as can be fairly assessed) of John Knox's birth.  On the right hand side of this ...

Mark Hausam's second post.  THE ESTABLISHMENT PRINCIPLE AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH At this point we can begin to see how the Estab...

Mark Hausam lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he is a n instructor in Philosophy at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT, and an instr...

...it's hard for me to think those words without hearing my son saying them as 7 syllables with emphasis. He seems to have picked up som...

A quick google shows me that this is not an original observation but here goes anyway. Jim Elliot had a great quote: He is no fool, wh...

One or two notes taken from a sermon by one of our ministers some years ago. This is a summary not a verbatim quote. Philippians 3 v 8-10,...

The following notes are fragments from a sermon preached by one of our ministers some years ago on the text "What think ye of Christ?...

Notoriously, Jeanette Winterson is no friend to the evangelicalism that she grew up with. But as she explained on  Start the Week  and here...

Dr R Dickie gave a very comprehensive paper on Martin Luther and some of his Writings. He reminded us that books by Luther were being impor...

Dr A. Ross gave a paper on The Response of the Churches to the Challenges of Evolution in the 19th Century. It focussed largely on Scotland ...

Two new guest posts on Mark Hausam's blog - http://freethoughtforchrist.blogspot.com Part 1 and Part 2 . These add to his 40 posts on...

At least twenty News journalists will face trial for phone hacking and/or corruption and could well face jail. While further focus centres u...

The FP theological conference in Glasgow was very profitable of a high standard and quite well attended although there was plenty of room fo...

Continuing from the previous post, we can demonstrate that the Westminster divines and a wide range of puritan authors held that 1 Cor 11:27...

As we noticed in a previous post, the Westminster Assembly were very clear in their interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:27, 29 and 32, i.e. t...

Photo: Flickr James B. Brown Whilst leaving Dalmeny Station last week I noticed on a map that there was a street in Queensferry called C...

These words in 1 Cor 11:29 are very solemn, spoken as they are in connection with partaking of the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner....

Whilst away in one of our other congregations elsewhere in the Highlands I heard a precious sermon on a text that is not expounded as freque...

Biblical visualisations of cross-references are found here . The above rainbow shows the distance between two places among 63,779  cross-...

"my judgment is that presupposed in the Apostle’s words is the accepted practice of head covering for women in the assemblies of t...

For those who appreciate audio sermons, there is a valuable quantity to be found from the London ministry of Rev. Keith Watkins on  Sermonau...

And will the LORD, indeed, condescend to avouch me for his own? Shall I be of his chosen ones! Will the FATHER of mercies look upon me as ac...

It is good, though not always possible, to witness visibly the minister actually break the bread at the Lord's table. There is some his...

In many churches the Lord's Supper is administered without any acknowledged need for due spiritual preparation for this means of grace. ...

Dr John Love of Greenock (1757-1825) writes helpfully concerning the duty of self-examination with regard to our state, i.e. "am I in ...

Rev Donald Maclean (1915-2010) of the St Jude's congregation of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was well-known to generations ...

Sure I am, the decree of a most fearful parliament in heaven is at the very point of coming forth, because of the sins of the land. For “we...

Now available at  www.fpchurch.org.uk . The pdf file is sized for ereader devices and tablets. This timely publication bears witness to so...

To my great regret, I never heard Rev. Fraser Macdonald preach except on cassette recording. If you have never listened go here . He was gif...

Every so often the vexed question of Sabbath public transport raises its head. It's not always clear why since it is very clearly contr...