Date: Sun AM 15th October 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Luke 9v62
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Date: Fri PM 13th October 2017
Speaker: Mr. Wallace Thompson, Evangelical Protestant Society
Bible Reference: Jude v3-4
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Date: Thu PM 12th October 2017
Speaker: Dr. John Greer, Ballymena FPC
Bible Reference: 1 Peter 2v9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
Date: Wed PM 11th October 2017
Speaker: Dr. John Greer, Ballymena FPC
Bible Reference: Galatians 2v16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Date: Tue PM 10th October 2017
Speaker: Mr. Cecil Andrews, Take Heed Ministries
Bible Reference: 2 Corinthians 6v17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
Date: Mon PM 9th October 2017
Speaker: Mr. Cecil Andrews, Take Heed Ministries
Bible Reference: Galatians 2v16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Date: Sun PM 8th October 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Romans 4v5
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Date: Sun AM 8th October 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Hebrews 4v12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Date: Sun PM 1st October 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Psalm 139v17-18
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
O how the Protestant church needs spiritual discernment in our day to avoid love devoid of truth, to have love based on the teaching of God’s Word with sound doctrine.
Date: Sun AM 1st October 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Philippians 1v9-11
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
By the early 16th century, Europe’s ordinary people couldn’t read. The church offered an intimidating system of ritual and penance
Date: Sun PM 24th September 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Luke 4v35
And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.
The Reformation was the most important and influential movement in the history of Western Europe, and as such, has shaped the world in which we live. While the movement revolutionised European politics, law, literature, science, and individual conscience, it was rooted in a renewed spiritual understanding of man’s relationship with God. It was a movement which brought Christianity back to the Bible and faith in Christ alone, the essence of the Gospel.
Date: Sun AM 24th September 2017
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Philippians 1v7-8
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
A prepared place for a prepared people.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
