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Paris Reidhead

Repentance: An Operating Principle of Your Life

Paris ReidheadRepentance: An Operating Principle of Your Life By Paris Reidhead* For our meditation this evening, I would like to ask you to turn with me to several Scriptures still dealing with this tremendously important theme of Repentance. Tonight I would like to have you consider the repentance in the life a... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Practical Devastation Of Our Old Humanity

T. Austin-SparksLord, we know that we have just used the words which one of old, long time ago, used, but did not understand that it was the Lord speaking. He thought it was a man, though a man of God, until he was brought face to face with the fact, no, it is not man that speaks, it is God; and then directly with ... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Significant Salutations

T. Austin-SparksReading: Romans 16 This is a chapter which I expect you do not often read. The letter proper seems to end with the "Amen" of 15:33, and it is easy to regard the final chapter as of little importance. But even though it may be a struggle to read it, I suggest that the effort is well worth making. Lik... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Stephen - Thy Witness

T. Austin-SparksAn Appeal for Spiritual Christianity Acts 22:20 (Acts 6 & 7) It would be difficult to find a Christian who did not hold Stephen in very high esteem. The reading of the account of his martyrdom, as that of a young man of great gifts and unimpeachable character, stirs every kind of emotion into intens... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Centrality and Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ

T. Austin-SparksReading: Colossians 1:9-29. The clause in the thirteenth verse very largely represents what has been laid on my heart for this time: "The Son of his love"; then that which follows, the position which He occupies according to the will of the Father - "He is before all things, and in him all things co... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Chief Occupation of a Disciple

T. Austin-SparksIn this initial chapter we shall be laying the foundation for what is to follow. Later we shall be breaking up the whole ground that we shall be covering now, and we shall get to the real application of the Lord's Word, but this chapter will be of a general character, but quite important. You will k... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Immense Significance of the Christian Life

T. Austin-SparksThere are many misconceptions as to what the Christian life really is. I shall, however, not say very much about this negative side - that is, as to that which is either mistaken, confused or inadequate. The best way of dealing with all such difficulties is to take the positive line, by seeking to p... Read More
Andrew Borland

The Observance of the Lord's D

As the sabbath was instituted to celebrate the old creation, so the Lord’s day celebrates the New Creation. Throughout this age the most Spirit-filled, devout believers to whom the will of God has been clearly revealed, have kept the Lord’s day apart from any sense of responsibility to keep the seve... Read More
David J. Engelsma

Evangelism and the Reformed Faith

Introduction Strange to say, some suppose that the relationship between the Reformed Faith and evangelism is uneasy and uncomfortable. Stranger still, some charge that the Reformed Faith and evangelism are incompatible. Many outside of the Reformed Churches contend that the Reformed Faith makes evan... Read More
Historic Confessions

Gadsby's Catechism

Q.1 Who is the only self-existent Being? ANSWER. God is the only self-existent Being. Ex. 3. 14; Psa. 90. 2; Isa. 45. 5, 22; Jn. 8.58. Q.2 Ought everyone to believe that there is a God? ANSWER. Everyone ought to believe that there is a God, and it is their great sin and folly who do not. Psa. 9.17; ... Read More

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