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Our gatherings each week in Jesus' name are truly a Kingdom homecoming. We were out in the world all week, living our lives, exercising our ministries, and now we gather in the assembly to be refreshed for the battles that lie ahead. The power of this weekly homecoming hinges to a large degree on wh... Read More

A Christmas-day Sermon By Samuel Davies, December 25, 1760 "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good-will towards men!" Luke 2:13, 14 This is the day which the church of Rome, and some oth... Read More

"WHAT is it that all Europe is looking for?" – the words are quoted from a leading article in the Times newspaper, on the recent finding of Agamemnon's tomb.[1] "What is it that all Europe is looking for? It is the KING OF MEN, the great head of the Hellenic race, the man whom a thousand galleys and... Read More

NARROWNESS of interpretation is the bane of apocalyptic study. "The words of this prophecy," "Things which must shortly come to pass'" such is the Divine description of the Book of the Revelation and of its contents. No one, therefore, is justified in denying to any portion of it a future applicatio... Read More

A. ORIGIN OF SATAN 1. What light is shed on the origin of Satan in: (1) Isa. 14:12? That prior to his fall he was called “Lucifer” (“day star”) and “son of the morning,” probably because he was the beginning of God’s creation. (2) Ezek. 28:15? That he is a created being and as such does not possess ... Read More

Daniel 9:20-27. The reader who has traveled in company with us through the various branches of our subject (The Lord's Coming) will remember a cursory reference to what we ventured to call "an unnoticed interval – break – or parenthesis" in the dealings of God with Israel and with the earth. This is... Read More

Talk given at Pinecrest Bible Training Center November 12, 1987 (Edgar Parkyns’ last Publicly Shared Message) …Nigeria. And in his palace, it was smelly and dirty and he was surrounded by old men in various states of what I thought was disarray. At least it wasn’t European. And I had the privilege o... Read More

Perhaps the greatest tragedy underlying much of the unwarrantable misuse of precious spiritual Biblical phraseology is the failure to distinguish the difference between the Old and New Covenants. Because a phrase is Biblical it does not follow that it is correct when used outside of its historical a... Read More

A QUESTION TO THE PROFESSORS OF CHRISTIANITY WHETHER THEY HAVE THE TRUE, LIVING, POWERFUL, SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST, OR NO WITH SOME QUERIES CONCERNING CHRIST, AND HIS APPEARANCES; HIS TAKING UPON HIM OUR FLESH; AS ALSO CONCERNING HIS FLESH AND BLOOD, AND OUR BEING FORMED THEREOF, AND FEEDING THER... Read More

THE CONSIDERATION OF A POSITION CONCERNING THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AS ALSO OF SOME PARTICULARS HELD FORTH FOR TRUTHS, BY ONE EDMUND ELLIS, STYLED A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST WITH A WARNING OF TENDER BOWELS TO THE RULERS, TEACHERS, AND PEOPLE OF THIS NATION, CONCERNING THEIR CHURCH AND... Read More