After darkness, light The fearful hold of priest-craft gone As the gospel shines among us throng. After blindness, sight After chains, release. The church’s war with God is o’er And Satan masters us no more. After conflict, peace. After merit, grace. No longer to the Pope we bow For Christ the King is […]
A young man ’round the age of sweet sixteen Is the strangest beast you ever have seen. For although much diminished by age’s lack, He has far more brains than a miser’s sack. He knows so much more than his pastor and others— Whether mum, dad, grand-folks, sister or brothers. ‘The Church is a place […]
In this article I wish to deal with some individual issues to which we can apply the general principles written about in the last issue. Firstly, women and sport. Some argue that women should not be permitted to play sports, because it might compromise their modesty, cause unfeminine traits of personality, and the like. Besides, […]
Play and sport was an accepted social activity of God’s Old Testament people. It was indicative of health, life, and other temporal covenant blessings of God (Zech. 8:5). The Old Testament background for a Christian view of sport lies in its connection with the Israelite emphasis on feasting, dancing, and hospitality. There is no hesitation […]
“Rejoice, O young man in thy youth; and let thine heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 These verses are remarkable […]
When we hear the word “theologian,” a certain picture is conjured up in our minds. A grim-faced man is sitting over a desk with heaps of books piled around him. The man has one hand holding up his head and is trying to write with the other. Perhaps he is an elder of some sort […]
Ecclesiastes 12:1 In countless childhoods all the same A voice rolls forth with power sublime. It calls to us in our springtime. Remember Him from Whom you came. Through youth the vicious seeds are sown In name of light and playful mirth. They sprout up in a cold, hard earth. Remember you are […]
When Christians want to know about how they may please God in a certain area of life, there are two places they can go for guidance—the moral law and the life of Christ. Despite what we might initially think, those two sources have much to say on the subject of recreation. All areas of our […]
The Marrow Controversy sprang up as wild fire in the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1718 through the re-publishing of a book called “The Marrow of Modern Divinity.” It was originally published in England in 1646, and was written (most probably) by a Gloucestershire scholar and gentleman called Edward Fisher. The book was really a compilation […]