Please pray for Peter and Nadia Cotton as they will be travelling, Lord willing, to the Ukraine on Friday 3rd July for two weeks. Especially pray for the ministry opportunities, tract distribution, and fellowship with the saints.
Moreover, please pray for Andy Clarke (from Christian Watch) who will be ministering at Ebenezer Reformed Baptist Church on July 12th, DV.
-Advance Notice-
Calvin and the Law
-Historical Lecture-
Commemorating the birth of John Calvin, 1509
Speaker: Rev. Jim Hamilton of Fole Reformed Evangelical Church, Staffordshire.
The meeting will be followed by light refreshments.
The Need of the Hour
C.H. Spurgeon once said that "the most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity".
Surely, the great need of the church in our day is a true knowledge of the Holy. It is for this reason that we have added to our website a reproduction of The Attributes of God, from Thomas Watson's "Body of Divinity".
I am of the opinion that all things in the church should be pure, simple, and
removed as far as possible from the elements and pomps of this world.
-Richard Cox-
The Merger of Calvinism with Worldliness
from Sword & Trowel 2009, No. 1 by Dr Peter Masters
When I was a youngster and newly saved, it seemed as if the chief goal of all zealous Christians, whether Calvinistic or Arminian, was consecration. Sermons, books and conferences stressed this in the spirit of Romans 12.1-2, where the beseeching apostle calls believers to present their bodies a living sacrifice, and not to be conformed to this world. The heart was challenged and stirred. Christ was to be Lord of one’s life, and self must be surrendered on the altar of service for him.
Salvation through Christ via a Gospel tract? Sometimes we are unaware of, and some even belittle, the spiritual value or effectiveness of a Gospel tract. We do not know what the Lord might do through this feeble instrument.
On April 17th 1521, Martin Luther had his first hearing at Worms. There he would be called upon to recant his works, but as they involved faith, salvation and the Word of God, Luther would ask for time to consider the Diets demand.
Jonathan Edwards, often remembered for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", was a man with a heart for God's glory above all else. To help himself pursue that goal, he composed a set of resolutions to guide his conduct in all areas, from his battle against sin to his use of time. He didn't make resolutions for self-vanity but for God's glory. As we enter a new year take time to consider the resolutions of this man of God.
Political Correctness, the rise of Islam, the inroads of Rome, and the secularization of society are all militating to silence the preaching of the pure and exclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ - who alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6).
In light of the recent news that attendance at Roman Catholic churches is now higher than at the Anglican churches and with the ecumenical movement well advanced with Rome, this poem sounds a much needed trumpet blast: England Awake!
