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The great Baptist minister, Charles H. Spurgeon, began preaching at a little thatched chapel in Waterbeach, England—a village about 6 miles north of  Cambridge in the district of Cambridgeshire—at the age of 16. He was a mere youth who had no advantages of a college education. Thus, he was strongly advised to go to the BaptistContinue reading “Ministers Should Have No Plans Concerning Themselves”

On the night of His betrayal, our Lord quoted from Psalm 41:9 and applied it to the treachery of Judas. That verse says, “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.” While David was writing about his own experiences, he was also writing asContinue reading “When Your Close Friend Turns Against You”

In one of the stanzas of the hymn, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way,” William Cowper wrote those well-known words we often sing: “Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace, behind a frowning providence he hides a smiling face.” Cowper was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England in 1731 toContinue reading “Job’s Dark Night of the Soul”

            On Saturday morning, I was picking peaches off my peach tree with the help of my wife while receiving a free class on pruning from my resident horticulturist. I had just returned from a Vanguard Presbytery meeting in Bristol, TN on Friday in which we had to remove four churches and a few pastors atContinue reading “Divine Pruning”

            Last week, I received one of the weekly emails from my good friend, Geoffrey Thomas, who was reporting on a trip to the US. He mentioned that another friend of his and mine, and a mentor to us both, Iain Murray, had often commented to him through the years, “There’s something happening in the US.”Continue reading ““There’s Something Happening in the US””

            While conservatives and confessionals in many US denominations have been rightly concerned about the homosexual intrusion in their denominations through the back door, a more insidious and dangerous enemy to the Christian faith has been ushered through the front door. That menace is Cultural Marxism under the guise of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Cultural MarxismContinue reading “Cultural Marxism in the Modern Church”

            In an article, How Should We Interpret the Genesis Flood Account?, on the BioLogos webpage, the following comment is made concerning the Scriptural account of the Genesis Flood: The scientific and historical evidence is now clear: there has never been a global flood that covered the whole earth, nor do all modern animals and humans descendContinue reading “The Genesis Flood”

          In the Introduction to his commentary on Genesis, Derek Kidner made the following statement: If, as the text of Genesis would by no means disallow, God initially shaped man by a process of evolution, it would follow that a considerable stock of near-humans preceded the first true man, and it would be arbitrary to pictureContinue reading “Adam Eve, Our First Parents”

            In A History of Israel, Theodore H. Robinson wrote that the Red Sea crossing took place at the shallow marsh land in northern Egypt near the Mediterranean Sea as follows: “Shallow water of this kind may easily be driven back by a strong wind, leaving the sand bare. With the dropping of the wind the water returns,Continue reading “The Red Sea”

            In the early 1960’s, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached several sermons at Westminster Chapel on the subject of depression. They were taken down in shorthand by a member of the church and edited for publication by Bethan Lloyd-Jones, his wife. I believe I am correct in stating that sermon series came to Lloyd-Jones as he wasContinue reading “Spiritual Depression”