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 [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 245th Edition - June 1, 2025 VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN The big news last week was the brief visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Ottawa. They came in [...]
Devotional “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” Acts 1:8 When the risen Christ sent His disciples into the world to preach the gospel, He equipped them with the power of the Holy Spirit. No other power can make our service for Christ effective. This is a [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 244th Edition - May 25, 2025 THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINOS 4000 feet deep in South Dakota a huge underground cavern is being prepared for a Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). At immense cost they [...]
Devotional "The fruit of the Spirit, is love." Galatians 5:22 The sum of all practical religion is love. "Love is the fulfilling of the law." All Christian growth is to be toward the likeness of Christ, and all His character is summed up in LOVE. Whatever is unloving in us—is unlike Jesus; and [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 243rd Edition - May 18, 2025 THE LORD’S GARDEN “A garden enclosed is my sister” [Song. 4:12]. We are enjoying the return of spring with its new foliage on the trees, and the [...]
Devotional "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten" — Joel 2:25 Yes, those wasted years over which we sigh shall be restored to us. God can give us such plentiful grace that we shall crowd into the remainder of our days as much of service as will [...]
BITS and PIECES A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. 242nd Edition - May 1, 2025 HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY To all the ladies we wish a happy Mothers’ Day. Despite all the vaunted claims of men, the old statement, “The hand that rocks [...]
Devotional Fathers and mothers are the most natural agents for God to use in the salvation of their children. I am sure that, in my early youth, no teaching ever made such an impression upon my mind as the instruction of my mother. Neither can I conceive that, to any child, there can [...]
