Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the worker's brow, and fatigue shall be for ever banished. To those who are weary and spent, the word "rest" is full of heaven. We are always in the field of battle; we are so tempted within, and so molested by foes without, that we have little or no peace; but in heaven we shall enjoy the victory, when the banner shall be waved aloft in triumph, and the sword shall be sheathed, and we shall hear our Captain say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." We have suffered bereavement after bereavement, but we are going to the land of the immortal where graves are unknown things. Here sin is a constant grief to us, but there we shall be perfectly holy, for there shall by no means enter into that kingdom anything which defileth. Hemlock springs not up in the furrows of celestial fields. Oh! is it not joy, that you are not to be in banishment for ever, that you are not to dwell eternally in this wilderness, but shall soon inherit Canaan? Nevertheless let it never be said of us, that we are dreaming about the future and forgetting the present, let the future sanctify the present to highest uses. Through the Spirit of God the hope of heaven is the most potent force for the product of virtue; it is a fountain of joyous effort, it is the corner stone of cheerful holiness. The man who has this hope in him goes about his work with vigour, for the joy of the Lord is his strength. He fights against temptation with ardour, for the hope of the next world repels the fiery darts of the adversary. He can labour without present reward, for he looks for a reward in the world to come.
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Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
Date: Sun PM 27th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: 1 Samuel 30:13
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
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Date: Sun AM 27th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Exodus 33:18
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
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Date: Sun PM 20th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: 1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Date: Sun AM 20th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. Kevin McLeod
Bible Reference: Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Date: Sun PM 13th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Acts 3:19
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
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Date: Sun AM 13th August 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: 1 Kings 13:18
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
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Date: Sun PM 6th August 2023Preacher: Mr. David WilsonBible Reference: Luke 15:11-24 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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Date: Sun AM 6th August 2023
Preacher: Mr. David Wilson
Bible Reference: Luke 15:1-2
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
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On Saturday morning, 29th July at 10:45am, Sandown Free Presbyterian Church hosted another open air Gospel service at the corner of Waring Street against the sodomite parade in Belfast. There were about 40 in attendance. Rev. Garth Wilson, minister of Sandown FPC, led the proceedings with the introduction of a […]
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Date: Sun PM 30th July 2023
Preacher: Rev. Michael Patrick
Bible Reference: 2 Peter 1:1-8
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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Date: Sun AM 30th July 2023
Preacher: Rev. Michael Patrick
Bible Reference: 2 Peter 1:1-8
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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Date: Sun PM 23rd July 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Matthew 18:6-7
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
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Date: Sun AM 23rd July 2023 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Matthew 6:26 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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Date: Sun AM 23rd July 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: 1 Kings 13:1-3, 18
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
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Date: Sun PM 16th July 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Psalms 56:3-4
What time I am afraid,
I will trust in thee.
In God I will praise his word,
in God I have put my trust; I will not fear
what flesh can do unto me.
Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
