(A critique of the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins)
Tragedy in a Godless Universe
Evolution requires death. At its core, Darwin’s postulate appeals to the power of death to remove those less able to survive so that the “more fit” can take their place. Natural selection, in this Darwinian sense, toils mindlessly on, removing individuals, populations, and even entire species. Whether something—or someone—lives or suffers, Darwinism offers only the cold machinations of time and death. Anything more would require existential purpose, after all, and that cannot be allowed.
Britain Today: Regarding Christians, "the freedom to live according to their religious beliefs - one of the most fundamental precepts of a liberal society - is fast becoming impossible. Indeed, merely professing traditional Christian beliefs can cause such offence that it is treated as a crime".
Prayer Request - *Outreach booklets now distributed*
New Year Outreach : Over the New Year we plan to distribute approximately 500 copies of the booklet "Vanity of Vanities - The Emptiness of Life without God" by Dr Peter Masters in the areas of North and South Rauceby.
The booklet "presents the experience of King Solomon, who experimented with every conceivable kind of pleasure, and concluded that life is pointless and predictable, unless people seek and find the Lord God, and know His power and guidance in their lives".
Please join with us in praying that God might be glorified in the salvation of souls.
Is there more than one road to Heaven? Is there more than one way in which the soul of man can be saved? This is the question which I propose to consider in this paper, and I shall begin the consideration by quoting a text of Scripture: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Yes, there are evidences of God's judgement upon our nation now. What are those evidences and what ought we to be doing besides wakening up to the reality of this fact? These evidences are not in any particular order. . . .
Who are you letting into YOUR home?
Would you invite a man to live with you who refused to pray with you, who persistently mocked the church, who laughed at marriage, who was immoral and adulterous, who blasphemed the name of God, who desecrated the Lord's sabbath day? Would you have a man like that in the house? You do it. You invite men like that into the house. And you give them the opportunity to say everything that they want to say - in the presence of your children. Would you invite a whore into your home who parades her sexuality? Would you invite to live with you a heavy-metal rock group? Yet you do all of this when you turn on your television. - Herman Hanko
Philippians 4:8-9
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".
To seek to be justified by the works of the law, is to reject the grace of God. There is no sin which Paul and the other Apostles did so much detest as the contempt of grace, and denial of Christ, and yet there is no sin more common.
- Martin Luther -
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!
