In this simple way, by God's grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land—the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their witness for the gospel, and the covenant to their heirs, and these again to their next descendants. This is our first duty, we are to begin at the family hearth: he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home. The heathen are to be sought by all means, and the highways and hedges are to be searched, but home has a prior claim, and woe unto those who reverse the order of the Lord's arrangements. To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation; proxies and sponsors are wicked devices in this case: mothers and fathers must, like Abraham, command their households in the fear of God, and talk with their offspring concerning the wondrous works of the Most High. Parental teaching is a natural duty—who so fit to look to the child's well-being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God. By a thousand plots Popery is covertly advancing in our land, and one of the most effectual means for resisting its inroads is left almost neglected, namely, the instruction of children in the faith. Would that parents would awaken to a sense of the importance of this matter. It is a pleasant duty to talk of Jesus to our sons and daughters, and the more so because it has often proved to be an accepted work, for God has saved the children through the parents' prayers and admonitions. May every house into which this volume shall come honour the Lord and receive His smile.
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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 11:30AM 11th July 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:21-22 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 4th July 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 27th June 2021 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Colossians 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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 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 […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 23rd May 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 16th May 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 9th May 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 25th April 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
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Date: Sun 11:30AM 18th April 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Continue ReadingDate: Sun 11:30AM 11th April 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 28th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
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Date: Sun AM 21st March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 7th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 28th February 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Colossians 1:6-8 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
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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
