BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 251st Edition - July 13, 2025 ROBUST CHRISTIANITY Christianity was born for endurance; not an exotic, but a hardy plant, braved by the keen wind; not languid, nor childish, nor cowardly. It walks [...]
Devotional “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.” James 3:15 True wisdom is “from above” and is “pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (v. 17). False wisdom, on the other hand, may come from the [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 250th Edition - July 6, 2025 TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH EDITION It was on the 4th March 2020, that the first “Bits and Pieces” was published in the middle of the COVID pandemic. [...]
Devotional The LORD says, "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." Joel 2:25 It is God who says, "I will restore." Only the divine hand can do it. Christ is the [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 249th Edition - June 29, 2025 HUGH FRASER It is with genuine sorrow that we record the death of Hugh Fraser in Vancouver. Hugh was the oldest brother of Toronto elder, James, and [...]
Devotional “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” Ezra 7:10 It does not come naturally into our hearts to seek, obey, and then teach others the words of God as found in the Scriptures. Therefore, [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 248th Edition - June 22, 2025 SEVENTY YEARS AGO It was seventy years ago on June 16, 1955 that my wife first cast anchor in the Lord Jesus as her Saviour and Lord. [...]
Devotional To the child of God, there is no such thing as accident. He travels an appointed way. The path he treads was chosen for him when as yet he was not, when as yet he had existence only in the mind of God. Accidents may indeed appear to befall him and misfortune [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 247th Edition - June 15, 2025 MISSING LINK? A news item emanating from Calgary this week tells of the discovery of what they claim may be a missing link between smaller dinosaurs and [...]
Devotional Of the bishop, that is, elder or pastor, it is written that he must be “One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?).” [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 246th Edition - June 8, 2025 CELL CAUTION We live in an amazing technological world. I remember as a young boy when a basic telephone was a novelty. Then television came about 1950 [...]
Devotional If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. — James 1:5 "If any of you lack wisdom." There is no "if" in the matter, for I am sure I lack it. What do I [...]
