Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?" Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing. Well might the suffering Saviour cry to His God, "Be not far from me," for above all other seasons a man needs his God when his heart is melted within him because of heaviness. Believer, come near the cross this morning, and humbly adore the King of glory as having once been brought far lower, in mental distress and inward anguish, than any one among us; and mark His fitness to become a faithful High Priest, who can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities. Especially let those of us whose sadness springs directly from the withdrawal of a present sense of our Father's love, enter into near and intimate communion with Jesus. Let us not give way to despair, since through this dark room the Master has passed before us. Our souls may sometimes long and faint, and thirst even to anguish, to behold the light of the Lord's countenance: at such times let us stay ourselves with the sweet fact of the sympathy of our great High Priest. Our drops of sorrow may well be forgotten in the ocean of His griefs; but how high ought our love to rise! Come in, O strong and deep love of Jesus, like the sea at the flood in spring tides, cover all my powers, drown all my sins, wash out all my cares, lift up my earth-bound soul, and float it right up to my Lord's feet, and there let me lie, a poor broken shell, washed up by His love, having no virtue or value; and only venturing to whisper to Him that if He will put His ear to me, He will hear within my heart faint echoes of the vast waves of His own love which have brought me where it is my delight to lie, even at His feet for ever.
Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
Date: Sun 7PM 11th April 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: John 11:43-44 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 44 And
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
Continue ReadingDate: 27th March 2021 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of
Continue ReadingDate: Sun PM 28th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
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;
Continue ReadingRev. Ian Brown, Martyrs Memorial FPC, narrates a summarised history of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. St. Patrick’s Day in Crossgar Separation from Apostasy The Gospel Mission of 1951 The First Free Presbyterian Church The Manifesto of the Free Presbyterian Church Free at Last Poem: the Beginning of the […]
Continue Reading
GENERAL PRESBYTERY OF THE FREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ULSTER Government and Morals Committee PRESS RELEASE Rev Gordon Dane: Convenor Rev David McLaughlin: Secretary Phone: 07709117500 email: gbdane@hotmail.co.uk The Government and Morals Committee of the Free Presbyterian Church views with deep concern the reports that Secretary of State Brandon Lewis is […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun PM 21st March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Malachi 1:1-2 The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved […]
Continue Reading
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 ReadingAs we remember 70 years since the founding of the Free Presbyterian denomination, we look back at a sermon preached in Mourne Free Presbyterian Church by Dr. S.B Cooke. On 17th March 1951, the first Free Presbyterian Church was constituted in the little village of Crossgar, Co.Down. At the heart […]
Continue ReadingDate: 20th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Galatians 1:6-8 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of […]
Continue Reading70th Anniversary Service of the Free Presbyterian Church at Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, featuring: a panel discussion, directed by Rev. Paul Foster, that deals with the Early Days of the FPC (included on the panel is Mr Jackie Allister – who was present at the first Mission in Crossgar); […]
Continue ReadingDate: Sun PM 14th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: John 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Continue ReadingDate: Sun AM 14th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Matthew 20:20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Continue ReadingDate: 13th March 2021Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Continue Reading
Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
