BITS and PIECES 275th Edition - December 28, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. HAPPY NEW YEAR We wish all our readers a happy New Year. It seems like only yesterday we were anticipating the difficulties of Y2K as we entered [...]
Devotional "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10 Untried, untrodden, and unknown as your future path may be, it is, each step, mapped, arranged, and provided for in the everlasting and unchangeable covenant of God. To Him who leads [...]
BITS and PIECES 274th Edition - December 21, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. HAPPY CHRISTMAS It is a joy to meet with each of our readers weekly and although I may not know who you are, I am deeply thankful [...]
Devotional And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 Rightly so! We have the angelic warrant for rejoicing because Christ is born. It is a truth so full of joy that it caused the angel [...]
BITS and PIECES 273rd Edition - December 14, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. BERT COOKE December 4th. was a sad day for the Free Presbyterian family when a dear friend and colleague in the ministry left us for his home [...]
Devotional “And the word of the LORD came unto Elijah, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.” 1 Kings 17:8-9 The leading of God is not always clear to our understanding or satisfying to our pride, [...]
BITS and PIECES 272nd Edition - December 7, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. THE COMING OF THE LORD The “scoffers” [II Peter 3:3] say “where is the promise of his coming?” But the Bible teaches, “He that shall come will [...]
Devotional “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee” (Isaiah 43:2). Bridge there is none: we must go through the waters and [...]
BITS and PIECES 271st Edition - November 30, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. THE MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE BOOK? Those who are using the church's daily Bible reading guide are now in Ezekiel. During the sixty years of my ministry, I [...]
Devotional "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain:"— Zechariah 4:7 At this hour, a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through it, or round it. Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain [...]
BITS and PIECES 270th Edition - November 23, 2025 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. SMILING SAINTS “Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” [Deuteronomy 33:29] Are we enjoying this happiness today? No [...]
Devotional “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” (Colossians 1:9) In this prayer, Paul sought for the Colossian Christians the full knowledge [...]
