How to Get the Most from Reading Your Bible by Thomas Watson 1. Remove hindrances. (a) remove the love of every sin (b) remove the distracting concerns of this world, especially covetousness [Matt. 13:22] (c) Don’t make jokes with and out of Scripture. 2. Prepare your heart. [1 Sam. 7:3] Do this by: (a) collecting…
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Hymn: Trust and Obey
Thank God, that where we fall short, the blood of Christ is there to wash clean those who have been given faith and repentance by His sovereign grace. And yet, how odious and disheartening it is to fall short, to give place to the devil for a season, to experimentally know and feel our stumblings,…
Man’s Inability to Keep the Moral Law by Thomas Watson
Man’s Inability to keep the Moral Law by Thomas Watson An Excerpt From His Work Titled: The Ten Commandments Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but does daily break them, in thought,…
An Excerpt From Studies On Saving Faith By A.W. Pink
An Excerpt From Studies on Saving Faith by Arthur W. Pink Part I – Signs of the Times It is generally recognized that spirituality is at a low ebb in Christendom and not a few perceive that sound doctrine is rapidly on the wane, yet many of the Lord’s people take comfort from supposing that…
John Flavel on the Particulars of How Christ is Received by His Elect
An Excerpt From The Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption By John Flavel The Particulars of how Christ is Received By His Elect First, The gospel offers Christ to us sincerely and really, and so the true believer receives and accepts him, even with a faith unfeigned; 1 Tim. 1: 5. If ever the…
A.W. Pink On Obedience
Arthur W. Pink To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice, And To Hearken Than The Fat Of Rams All professing Christians are agreed, in theory at least, that it is the bounden duty of those who bear His name to honour and glorify Christ in this world. But as to how this is to be done,…
Difficulty, Clarity, Hope
This is a hard time and a blessed time; hard, because (amongst many other things) I wish to write more, and blessed, because their is wisdom in not speaking/teaching too hastily — especially when there is a greater need of hearkening and learning than… typing. Here is my predicament (the same as it has always…
Divorce & Remarriage: In Light Of Unrepentant Physical Abuse, Separation, and Desertion
Divorce & Remarriage In Light Of Unrepentant Physical Abuse, A Resulting Separation, and Desertion. Matthew 18:15-17 “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he will not hear [thee, then] take…
The Nature of Repentance by A.W. Pink
The Nature of Repentance Arthur W. Pink Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3 In view of these solemn words it is tremendously important that each of us should seek and obtain from God the repentance which He requires, not resting content with anything short of this. Hence, there needs to be…
Christian Walk & Warfare: Doeth Righteousness
“Doeth Righteousness” Curt Wildy Psalm 106:3 “Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.” 1 John 2:29 “If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.” 1 John 3:7 “Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth…
Spiritual Wrestlings 