"Show me wherefore thou contendest with me" - Job 10:2 Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never have been discovered if it were not for the trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand in [...]
“Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” It is great to be meeting in the house of God again after such a long time of lockdown. Do take the opportunity to greet one another. Believers are to meet together for fellowship, prayer, communion, and especially [...]
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” John 19:30 "It is finished." The ancient Greeks boasted of being able to say much in little - "to give a sea of matter in a drop of language" was regarded as the [...]
“Behind the Wall,” a twenty-minute ministry for children, had an excellent first run on Sunday past. It is put on by Daniel and Rebekah Sima'an of the Toronto church and is carried at 2.00 p.m. on sermonaudio and will be carried worldwide. Initially, it is planned to broadcast bi-weekly, the next one on April 4. [...]
Let us plant ourselves on the hill of Zion and invite the world to come over to us, but never under any circumstances will we go over to them. The cross is the symbol of Christianity, and the cross speaks of death and separation, never of compromise. No one ever compromised with a cross. [...]
“Christ…entered…into heaven…to appear in the presence of God for us…once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin…Unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” [Hebrews 9:24-28]. These three appearances of Christ vary as to time and location, but they are inseparably [...]
Saturday, March 20, 2021 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The Session has reconsidered opening the church for in-person services this Lord’s Day, March 21, 2021. With the rising numbers of Covid-19 in Toronto and the potential return to full lockdown, it was thought better to continue with “online” services ONLY, out of an [...]
The Free Presbyterian Church was formed seventy years ago on March 17, 1951, in Crossgar, Northern Ireland. It was born in controversy under the leadership of the late Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley, who was twenty-five at the time. The elders of Lissara Presbyterian Church arranged for a Gospel Mission to be held in [...]
"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." – Mark 1:35 To whom can this impressive picture of high devotion properly apply but to Him whose life was one continuous act of prayer; whose vital and all-pervading atmosphere was communion [...]
Rutherford was a gifted preacher, and the story is told of how one man went to hear the three greatest preachers of the time in Scotland. After hearing the first one he came away saying what a wonderful preacher he was. He came away from the second one saying what a wonderful sermon it [...]
“Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:16) This is an amazing verse, testifying as it does to the omniscient fore-planning of our Creator for each human being. Each [...]
The Bible teaches clearly the purity, or impeccability, of Jesus Christ. Verses like this, “For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens” [Hebrews 7:26] make it clear. Jesus Himself said, “The prince of this world (the devil) cometh, and hath nothing [...]
