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 [...]
BITS and PIECES 280th Edition - February 1, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. WILL THE GRASS BE GREENER? An interesting little story appeared in ‘Golf Digest’ some time ago. It concerned two men, both English, famous and deceased. The [...]
Devotional “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” Ephesians 1:4 Although we cannot really understand how God could choose us (same Greek word as “elected”) before the creation of the world, we can rejoice [...]
BITS and PIECES 279th Edition - January 25, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. DESIGN DEMANDS A DESIGNER The old statement is true. Whenever we see a house, a car, a watch or whatever, we know that behind that production lies [...]
Devotional So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Corinthians 9:24 Paul learned his preaching style from One he never heard in the flesh, the Lord Jesus. The Lord constantly used earthly illustrations to convey divine truth, with the effect of powerfully focussing the hearers attention and aiding his retention. Paul likewise used ordinary [...]
BITS and PIECES 278th Edition - January 18, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. FIFTY YEARS AGO It was in January 1976 that I made my way from Tandragee in Northern Ireland to Toronto. The purpose for the visit was to [...]
Devotional "We know that all things work together for good." Romans 8:28 Safely may the apostle rest his appeal with us. We know it, because God has said it. We know it, because others have testified to it. Best of all, we know it, because we have experienced it ourselves. We can set [...]
BITS and PIECES 277th Edition - January 11, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. PRAY FOR THE OWEN FAMILY Tonia Owen is the beloved wife of the Rev. Phil Owen, the minister of Buffalo FPC. Tonia took ill some months ago [...]
Devotional "Thou shalt see greater things than these." John 1:50 This is spoken to a childlike believer, who was ready to accept Jesus as the Son of God, the King of Israel, upon one convincing piece of argument. Those who are willing to see shall see: it is because we shut our eyes [...]
BITS and PIECES 276th Edition - January 4, 2026 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. Although the world is not in great shape at present with serious political, military and [...]
