Have I peace with God?
Date: Sun PM 8th July 2018 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Romans 5v1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Continue ReadingIt seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the crime. Forget Him who never forgot us! Forget Him who poured His blood forth for our sins! Forget Him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer Him to be as a wayfaring man tarrying but for a night. He whom we should make the abiding tenant of our memories is but a visitor therein. The cross where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness. Does not your conscience say that this is true? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of Him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should fix your eye steadily upon the cross. It is the incessant turmoil of the world, the constant attraction of earthly things which takes away the soul from Christ. While memory too well preserves a poisonous weed, it suffereth the rose of Sharon to wither. Let us charge ourselves to bind a heavenly forget-me-not about our hearts for Jesus our Beloved, and, whatever else we let slip, let us hold fast to Him.
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
Date: Sun PM 8th July 2018 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Romans 5v1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 8th July 2018 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Psalm 29v2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 8th July 2018 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Ephesians 2v13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Continue ReadingKnow thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind