Tell Me Then… Who, or What, Makes You Different? Curt Wildy 1 Corinthians 4:7 [KJV] “For who maketh thee to differ [from another]? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive [it], why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received [it]?” 1 Corinthians 4:7 [LITV] “For who…
Category: Spiritual Need & Godly Weakness
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,…
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…
A Man May Have Grace, And Yet Want The Assurance Of His Interest In Christ (Thomas Brooks)
Assurance is requisite to the well-being of a Christian, but not to the being; it is requisite to the consolation of a Christian, but not to the salvation of a Christian; it is requisite to the well-being of grace, but not to the mere being of grace. Though a man cannot be saved without faith,…
Sin or Disorder? The Two Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Sin or Disorder? The Two Are Not Mutually Exclusive Curt Wildy All sin amounts to sickness and disorder in the spiritual sense; hence the common term sin-sick souls. We read in Isaiah 1:4-6 (italics added) “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the…
Every One That Is Godly – Part Two
EVERY ONE THAT IS GODLY Part Two THOMAS BRADBURY Preached In Grove Chapel, Camberwell, On Sunday Evening, September 16TH, 1877 For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Psalm 32:6 Return…
Every One That Is Godly – Part One
EVERY ONE THAT IS GODLY Part One THOMAS BRADBURY Preached In Grove Chapel, Camberwell, On Sunday Evening, September 16th, 1877 For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Psalm 32:6 IF…
Nearness To The Cross
Nearness To The Cross A Sermon By William Jay Preached in 1832 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy…
God Is Love To The Heaven-Born Children of God
God Is Love To The Heaven-Born Children of God The Gospel Standard or, Feeble Christian’s Support August 1835 Beloved of the Lord,— It is your blessedness to prove, by the divine teaching of God the Holy Ghost, that God is Love,— eternal, immutable Love. This precious truth you will not deny; but then you may…
Spiritual Wrestlings 