“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” Those were the words of the late…
1779 HT: Dan Graves SHORTLY AFTER COMING TO CAMBRIDGE on 29 January 1779, Charles Simeon faced a serious test of conscience. “It was but the third day after my arrival that I understood I should be expected in about three weeks to attend the Lord’s Supper…The thought rushed through my mind that Satan himself was…
I came across this today in David Pawson’s book, Unlocking the Bible. “God’s rescue programme is an offence to us – summed up by the poet William Borman Ewer: ‘How odd Of God To choose The Jews’ “Then Cecil Browne decided to add a second verse in reply: But not so odd As those who…
Of his latest article about Scottish missionaries, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “This week we meet John Paton, a man of great determination and courage, who left Scotland to pioneer the church among cannibals in the New Hebrides (today called Vanuatu) in the South Pacific.” John Paton stood, weeping and trembling with grief. His wife Mary…
If anyone was in any doubt as to the downward spiral of spiritual degeneration that the Church of Scotland continues to take they need look no further than the news concerning St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. The Church where John Knox was Minister from 1559 and which is also known as ‘the High Kirk of…