It seems incredible that we have reached the 200th edition of 'Bits and Pieces.' We started on March 4, 2020, to help us get over the Covid pandemic and, apart for a gap last year when I was ill, have continued to the present day. It appears that quite a few people enjoy, and [...]
Devotional It is true I am weak in faith, and prone to fall, but my very feebleness is the reason why I should always be where You feed Your flock, that I may be strengthened and preserved in safety beside the still waters. Why should I turn aside? There is no reason why [...]
Martin Luther described the book of Job, “as more magnificent and sublime than any other book of Scripture.” Others, like the poets Tennyson and Carlyle, shared the same sentiments. The book of Job is placed in the middle of the Old Testament, but chronologically it belongs in the time of Genesis. Job [...]
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 [...]
It was on Independence Day, July 4, 1976, forty-eight years ago, that the first services of Toronto Free Presbyterian Church were held. The rented church on Cosburn Avenue in East York was a fair age, and had seating for about one hundred people in the auditorium, and it also had a basement. [...]
Devotional “Rejoice in the Lord alway.” - Philippians 4:4 Paul was growing old. The sufferings he had experienced had certainly taken their toll. Yet despite the catalogue of afflictions he had endured while preaching the gospel of Christ, he had not lost his sense of the vibrancy of life. The words joy and [...]
Hezekiah was a good and godly king of Judah, yet once he made a serious mistake. He opened his palace to the emissaries of the king of Babylon. [2 Kings 20:15]. He showed them all his treasures and, doubtless, was happy to show his God-given prosperity. But Isaiah came and told him [...]
Devotional "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” - 1 John 3:1 The Christian church has a rich heritage in its hymns. Over the years, dear saints of God have framed great Christian doctrines in music, easy to remember and [...]
The modernist says no, but Jesus said to His disciples, “I go to prepare a place for you” [John 14:3]. Heaven is a place prepared for God’s people. Heaven is a place prepared by God. Abraham looked “for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God” [Hebrews 11:10]. Heaven is a [...]
Devotional "Those things which cannot be shaken may remain." — Hebrews 12:27 We have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written upon [...]
We are sorry to hear of the deaths of two stalwart Christian women who passed away recently. Ann Foster was the wife of the Rev. Ivan Foster, the retired minister of Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland. Ann, with her husband, was instrumental in starting the Christian School movement in Northern Ireland. [...]
Devotional "And be not conformed to this world." — Romans 12:2 If a Christian can, by possibility, be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate, it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to [...]
