All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon His children with beams of love. Like a river, His lovingkindness is always flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as His own nature. Like the atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all His creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their being. Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore, so is it with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours; its days of overflow, when the Lord magnifieth His grace before the sons of men. Amongst the blessings of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realization, whereas all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these crowning mercies call for crowning thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate, and think upon this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise Him with our lips, and laud and magnify His name from whose bounty all this goodness flows. Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to His cause. A practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to the Lord of the harvest.
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Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
26th June 2021 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: 2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 7:00PM 20th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Job 42:5-6 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear:but now mine eye seeth thee.Wherefore I abhor myself, and repentin dust and ashes.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 20th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
Continue Reading19th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Proverbs 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out:so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 7:00PM 13th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: 2 Samuel 3:18 Now then do it: for the Lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 13th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Continue Reading12th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Jeremiah 23:29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 7:00PM 6th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Genesis 18:20-21 20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 6th June 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:16-17 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for […]
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5th June 2021 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church deeply regrets the sudden passing of Mr Frank Campbell and would like to express their deepest sympathy to the Campbell family circle. Frank CAMPBELL, called Home May 30th, 2021, (suddenly) at his home 41 Cladytown Road, Glarryford, Ballymena, Francis Rutherford, beloved husband of the late Sarah, […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 7:00PM 30th May 2021Preacher: Rev. Derek ErwinBible Reference: Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
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Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
