“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:20). It was this text that the Scottish Reformer George Wishart used in a powerfully rousing sermon in Dundee in 1544. The city had not been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Samuel Marsden (1765-1838) was an English missionary to New South Wales, Australia, where he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Romans 8:35, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” This day (11 May) in 1685 Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan were executed...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Bishop Ryle was born this day (10th May) in 1816. He was converted as a young man. One Sunday afternoon, he happened to go to a service in one of the parish churches. He remembered nothing particular about it, not even the sermon. But in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Luke 23:34, “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.” On Lord's Day December 7 1941, the US Pacific Fleets lay peacefully at anchor. Without declaration of war...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Psalm 62:7. “‘In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.” The Swiss Reformer Huldrych Zwingli in time of plague knew the truth of this verse. He was away from Zurich when the Black...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A CALL FOR SPECIAL PRAYER – ISSUED BY THE PRESBYTERY OFFICERSAs Moderator, Deputy Moderator and Clerk of the General Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, we recognise in the light of Scripture that Almighty God, in His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Psalms 9:20, “Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men.” This verse is being fulfilled in the world at this time. Countries are making a valuable discovery. The nations are learning by a fearful...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1 Thessalonians 5:8, "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." Colossians 3:11, “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Job 23:3, “Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!” Job got it right! “Him” and “his seat” that was the priority. To be taken up with Christ is the wisest pursuit and the most...[ abbreviated | read entire ]