I will make all my mountains a way. Isaiah 49:11 God will make obstacles serve His purpose. We all have mountains in our lives. There are people and things that threaten to bar our progress in the Divine life. Those heavy claims, that uncongenial occupation, that thorn in the flesh, that daily cross—we think [...]
“Awake to righteousness, and sin not.” A most amazing and amusing human practice is sleep. Amazingly, one who has reached the Biblical seventy years has already spent about twenty-three in bed! It is amusing as we all, overcome by an uncontrollable urge, climb into bed, put the lights out, and wait – until the [...]
"There hath been no latter rain." Jeremiah 3:3 Spiritual drought makes a wasteland where once there was a Canaan. It reduces a land flowing with milk and honey to poverty and want. It produces spiritual famine, powerlessness, and despondency. No generation knows this better than ours. We are living through a prolonged and terrible drought. [...]
The keeping of the Sabbath comes as a Christian obligation by divine example and command. God rested after creation, and in the fourth commandment He instructed us to keep the Sabbath. Its importance can be seen in its priority. It was first mentioned in Genesis and in the wilderness before the law was [...]
"Seeing then that we have a great high Priest...Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:14,16 Our great Helper in prayer is the Lord Jesus Christ, our [...]
Some time ago I watched a spider at work. On a bush near our picnic table he had stretched out his web; a four-inch diameter skein of gossamer-like threads, almost invisible to the human eye; and interlaced in such a fashion that not even the tiniest insect could ever hope to pass, but surely be [...]
"The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." Daniel 11:32 The LORD is a man of war, "Jehovah is his name." Those who enlist under His banner shall have a Commander who will train them for the conflict and give them both vigour and valour. The times of which Daniel [...]
“Books are the legacies that the generation leave to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation as gifts to the living, and those yet unborn” [John Addison]. We as Christians have access to the greatest deposit of sound, scriptural, and spiritual books in the history of the church. What an inestimable [...]
"I called upon him, but he gave me no answer" Song of Solomon 5:6 The Lord, when He hath given great faith, hath been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered His servants’ voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, [...]
The first Free Presbyterian service in Canada was held forty-five years ago, on July 4, 1976. The people met in an old rented church building on Cosburn Avenue in East York. (See photo on the historical chart in the church hall). That first meeting was held amid great opposition. The ecumenical church leaders leaned [...]
"He will be my guide even unto death." Psalms 48:14 We need a guide. Sometimes we would give all that we have to be told exactly what to do and where to turn. We are willing to do right, but we do not know which one of two roads we are to follow. Oh, for [...]
The life of Christ as the God-man was permeated with prayer. From the Gospels, we learn first of all that He prayed secretly: “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]. Secondly, He prayed submissively: “(He) prayed saying, [...]
