I stumbled upon a small book in a second hand book shop on the Isle of Skye just over a year ago which was a collection of the Letters of William Still. I sensed there was something to be found in this book and upon both reading it and finding out more about the man [...]
As I have been reading my bible recently, I have been spending time in the O.T prophetic scriptures. Time and time again I find that the O.T prophetic scriptures speak right into the contemporary church world.
In spite of en masse spiritual, moral and doctrinal indiferance within the churches of God, scripture looks forward to a [...]
I think this quote from Spurgeon is very appropriate for today. These are not days in which whole hearted commitment to the scriptures are encouraged. Many evangelicals think they want revival but very few are willing to pay the price for true revival.
“We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred [...]
When I first came to know the Lord Jesus Christ I did so through a movement which did not believe in the present day continuation of ’sign’ gifts such as tongues, healings, exorcisms and workings of miracles (1 Cor 12-14). Through my reading of scripture I could see no real evidence that the N.T writers expected [...]
“Yet one does not have to look long at the prevailing Christianity of the 1850’s to observe some signs that are hardly akin to what we find in the New Testament- it was too fashionable, too respectable, too much at peace with the world. It was as though such texts as ‘the whole world lieth [...]
