BITS and PIECES 286th Edition - March 15, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY It was seventy-five years ago, on March 17, 1951, that the Free Presbyterian Church was born. It was in Crossgar, Northern Ireland, and the writer [...]
Devotional Why do we sit still? Jeremiah 8:14 Solomon said that God 'made every thing beautiful in his time' (Eccles. 3:11). There are times when it is a beautiful thing to sit still. 'Be still, and know that I am God' (Psa. 46:10). There is nothing more beautiful or blessed than resting in [...]
BITS and PIECES 285th Edition - March 8, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. THE WINTER IS PAST It has been a tough winter, but as we enter March, we know that soon we will be able to echo Solomon’s words, [...]
Devotional Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Deuteronomy 28:5 Obedience brings a blessing on all the provisions which our industry earns for us. That which comes in and goes out at once, like fruit in the basket which is for immediate use, shall be blest; and that which is laid [...]
BITS and PIECES 284th Edition - March 1, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. MANY THANKS As most of you know, I hit the ninety-mark last Thursday. I received many birthday cards, e-mails, phone messages, and other greetings, including a church [...]
Devotional "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Galatians 2:20. The life of Christ and the life of self cannot coexist in the same heart. If the one lives, the other dies. The sentence of death is written upon a man's self, when the [...]
BITS and PIECES 283rd Edition - February 22, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. THE TYPOLOGY OF THE RED HEIFER “If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying [...]
Devotional "I will never leave thee." — Hebrews 13:5. "No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some [...]
BITS and PIECES 282nd Edition - February 15, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. A NEW BODY The human body is a marvel of divine engineering. The Lord has given to each of us a remarkable body as a tabernacle for [...]
Devotional "Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and with heldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst." Nehemiah 9:20 Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for He is [...]
BITS and PIECES 281st Edition - February 8, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. HOW BIG IS YOUR GOD? We accept that God is Sovereign, and also immense. We tend to put Him in our pockets, bring Him out on Sundays, [...]
Devotional "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10. "Herein is love!" as though John would say, "and nowhere else but here!" That God should punish the innocent for the guilty- that He should [...]
