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Trials And The Fallacy Of Time Salvation
Crawfordsville, Ind., Nov. 19, 1899. Elder F. A. Chick – Very Dear Brother In Christ: – The shadow of night is upon our part of the earth, and also a dark mantle of sorrow has fallen upon my spirit to-night, and my heart is troubled, without my scarcely knowing why; for I still realize “The Lord is good, a stronghold…
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The Letter Of Paul To The Churches At Ephesus
I believe the letter of Paul to the churches at Ephesus was written in the year 62AD, making it the seventh of his fourteen epistles. The chart below provides a bird’s-eye view of the chronological order for the books of the New Testament. John Gill, “Commentary On The New Testament Scriptures”: “The city of Ephesus is, by Pliny, called the…
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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Beardsall
Elizabeth Ann Beardsall, of Woolsthorpe died April 13th, 1867. She was born at Nottingham, Jan. 18th, 1845. Her parents removed to Grantham, and she then attended with them at Castlegate Chapel. They left Grantham in 1861, and she then went to reside with an aunt, at Nottingham, and attended at the room in Thurland Street. In February, 1866, a way…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Collis
When about ten years old, his father enlisted into the army, and soon afterwards his mother died, when John went to live with an uncle, who treated him with great unkindness, his food being of the commonest kind. The treatment he met with was the means of driving him away from his uncle's, to seek a home elsewhere. Being of…
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The Salvation Testimony Of Don Fortner
In May of 2019, the New Focus Conference was held at Gornal Baptist Church, Robert Street, in Dudley, West Midlands, England. Among the speakers was Don Fortner. He prefaced his sermon with a personal testimony on how the Lord brought his soul to a saving knowledge of Christ. Unknown to me at the time, my wife recorded the two minute…
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Paul Gerhardt And The Poetry Of Piety
Nowadays, it appears that our congregations seldom sing hymns depicting the sacrificial sufferings of Christ on the cross. When biographer Hugh I’Anson Fausset read William Cowper’s triumphant atonement hymn ‘There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins’, he reacted in disgust, calling the language ‘crude salvationism’, ‘barbarous’ and ‘hysterical’. This is perhaps why most of Paul Gerhardt’s…
