Hand Over to Christ the Burden of Christian Work

How to maintain our congregations; how to hold our ground amid the competition of neighboring workers; how to sustain the vigor and efficiency of our machinery; how to adjust the differences arising between fellow and subordinate workers; how to find material enough for sermons and addresses – beneath the pressure of burdens like these how [...]

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Burdens, and What to Do With Them

I am currently reading F. B. Meyer’s book entitled, The Secret of Guidance – Moody Classics, Moody Press 1997.  The section on ‘burdens’ presents encouragements which I will be posting in short excerpts under the new category of ‘Cast Your Burden Upon the Lord’.  May each reader find the source of his strength and hope [...]

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Panoply Series – Part 6 – Standing Firm Till the End

It has been a while since I last posted part 5 of our Panoply Series.  To review each section of the series, please go to the sidebar under Categories and choose Panoply Series to take you to the full list.  With thanksgiving to God, we proceed now with part 6 by reading Ephesians 6:13: Therefore, [...]

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Sanctify Them By Your Truth

Foreword:  This is the 3rd installment on our series on “The Life of a Justified Sinner” from the Modern Reformation magazine Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996 issue. For articles uploaded earlier, click the series title on the sidebar under ‘Categories’. EmmausTrekker *     *     *     *     * By Michael S. Horton   Sanctify them by [...]

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How Spurgeon Learned of Grace

Well can I remember the manner in which I learned the Doctrines of Grace in a single instant. Born as all of us are by nature, an ‘Arminian,’ I still believed the old things I had heard continually from the pulpit, and did not see the Grace of God. When I was coming to Christ, [...]

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Our Lord the King and His Unchanging Decrees

Psalm 93 1 The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. 2 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods [...]

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Inspiration For A Song

Psalm 92 (a Song for the Sabbath) 1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; 2 to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, 3 to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. 4 For you, [...]

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H1N1 Pandemic

For He will deliver you…from the deadly pestilence” – Psalm 91:3   In a few months, winter will descend upon most of the earth’s northern hemisphere and there is a growing apprehension about the speed of transmission of the swine flu virus.  In the United States, the worst case scenario projects 140,000,000 persons will be infected by the virus.  [...]

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It Is Written

Let’s take a moment to read Matthew 4:1-11 and within the narrative the phrase “it is written” was mentioned three times by the Lord and once by the tempter. And each time it was used by the Lord, it was to refer to the primacy of God’s Word for the following: relying solely on God – it [...]

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Panoply Series – Part 1 – Two Kingdoms at War

Today’s reading is Ephesians 6:10-20 (ESV http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Ephesians+6%3A10-20 ) A quick overview of this section reminds us of the following things: (1) that the Christian is involve in a warfare, (2) that the warfare is spiritual wherein the controlling powers of darkness are unseen influencing the unbelieving world, (3) that the current inhabitants of this world are categorized in [...]

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