FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 35, September 2, 2021 “On my bed night after night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him but did not find him.” - Song of Solomon 3:1. I have a colleague in ministry, who lives in another country where persecution of believers is rampant. I... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 34, August 26, 2021      “I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes.” -Zechariah 3:4 I am currently reading my friend John Barber’s most recent book, a novel entitled The Trees Have Goats: A Story of Arab Women’s Struggle for... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 33, August 19, 2021 “Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.” -Acts 4:13. I was ordained into the gospel ministry forty years ago... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 32, August 12, 2021 “Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.”... Continue Reading →

Go to Joseph FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 31, August 5, 2021 “So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph, whatever he says to do, you shall do.”  -Genesis 41:55. The favoritism of Jacob toward... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 30, July 29, 2021 "They were continually devoting themselves . . . to prayer." -Acts 2:42 James the apostle, in his letter to the twelve tribes who were disbursed abroad, was seeking to bring them back to the revival culture they had first experienced on the day of... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 29, July 22, 2021 “They were continually devoting themselves . . . to the breaking of bread,” -Acts 2:42. I, for one, am very thankful that many of our Presbyterian and Reformed churches observe the Lord’s Supper each Sunday. After all, we believe that the Lord’s Supper is... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 28, July 15, 2021 “They were continually devoting themselves . . . to fellowship” Why does modern day preaching do so little to transform people in the pew? When the Apostle Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, after the promised Holy Spirit had been poured out in... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 27, July 8, 2021 “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching.” -Acts 2:42 Surely any church, especially one which is just getting started, as we hope with a Vanguard Presbytery church plant in Birmingham, must begin with Biblical worship. What are the components of Biblical worship?... Continue Reading →

FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 20, number 26, July 1, 2021 “. . . the household of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.” -1 Timothy 3:15,16. Last week I said that if I was to plant another church today I would move in a different direction from... Continue Reading →