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David Servant

Striving Against Sin

David Servant“Sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it” (Gen. 4:7, emphasis added). As was pointed out in the previous chapter, our sanctification is a joint effort on the part of God and ourselves. We grow to be progressively more like Jesus as we cooperate with the Father... Read More
David Smithers

Apart From Prayer We Can Do Nothing

The Law of Asking and Receiving Did you know that the Kingdom of God will not come apart from PRAYER? The unreached will never hear the sweet name of Jesus without the labor of someone’s Spirit-led prayers. Regardless of how things may appear on the surface, nothing of eternal value is ever released... Read More
Dictionary of Theology

Kingdom of God

The kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven seem to be variations of the same idea. A kingdom implies a king. Our king is Jesus. Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). Jesus' authority did not come from man but from God (Luke 22:29). Entrance into the kingdom of God is by a new ... Read More
Octavius Winslow

MORNING THOUGHTS - March

MORNING THOUGHTS, or DAILY WALKING WITH GOD By Octavius Winslow MARCH 1. "Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." John 5:39 The word of God is full of Christ. He is the Sun of this divine system, the Fountain of its light and beauty... Read More
Thomas Watson

The Lord's Prayer

Thomas WatsonThe Lord's Prayer By Thomas Watson CHOICE EXCERPTS A vexing vanity! "Deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:13 In this petition, we pray to be delivered from the evil world. "He died for our sins, just as God our Father planned—in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live." Galatians 1:4 It... Read More
Timothy Tow

Lord, Teach Us To Pray

Text: Matt 6:9-15 The Lord's Prayer is recorded both in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. "Lord, teach us to pray" (Lk 11) introduces us to the text. This is our model prayer, for it teaches us how and what to pray. It is an important part of our Bible-Presbyterian Liturgy. One of our B-P sons, who now declare... Read More
Valentin Weigel

Astrology Theologized

Valentin Weigel"Astrology Theologised" CHAPTER I. What Astrology is, and what Theology; and how they have reference one to another. THE Kingdom of Nature. — Astrology is Philosophy itself, or it is the whole light of Nature, from whence ariseth the universal natural Wisdom, or a solid, sincere, and exquisite knowl... Read More
Benjamin Franklin

The Kingdom of God

Benjamin FranklinTHE purpose of this article is to answer the following questions: I. What is the kingdom of God? II. Was the kingdom of God fully established before the ascension of Christ to heaven? III. Has the kingdom of God yet come, or been established? Without preliminary or ceremony, let attention be directe... Read More
Billy Graham

The World's Darkest Hour

Billy GrahamNow Matthew, the 26th chapter, beginning at the 36th verse: "Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith... Read More
Charles Spurgeon

Sermon 1778 - A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life

Charles SpurgeonA Sermon (No. 1778) Preached on Wednesday Morning, April 30th, 1884, By C. H. SPURGEON, At Exeter-Hall Being the Annual Sermon of the Baptist Missionary Society. "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."--Matthew 6:10. OUR Father's will shall certainly be done, for the Lord "doeth according t... Read More

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