Devotional "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Galatians 2:20. The life of Christ and the life of self cannot coexist in the same heart. If the one lives, the other dies. The sentence of death is written upon a man's self, when the [...]
BITS and PIECES 283rd Edition - February 22, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. THE TYPOLOGY OF THE RED HEIFER “If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying [...]
Devotional "I will never leave thee." — Hebrews 13:5. "No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some [...]
BITS and PIECES 282nd Edition - February 15, 2026 A random collection of news and views compiled by Frank McClelland for the Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. A NEW BODY The human body is a marvel of divine engineering. The Lord has given to each of us a remarkable body as a tabernacle for [...]
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 [...]
