Ronald Boyd-MacMillan on martyrdom (extra reading for “Able’s Blood Singing” sermon )

Posted by on Jan 18, 2015 in Further Study

(Faith That Endures (Grand Rapids: Fleming Revell, 2006), p. 315.) “R. J. Thomas was a Welsh missionary with a burden for the xenophobic hermit kingdom of Korea in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1865, while in China, the opportunity he had been waiting a lifetime for arrived. An American ship, the SS General Sherman, was going to steam up the Taedong River to the capital, Pyongyang, in hopes of luring the Koreans into trade....

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H.P. Liddon on Psalm 44 (Extra reading for “Skeletal Structure of Ps 44” sermon)

Posted by on Jan 12, 2015 in Further Study

“God’s Doings in the Time of Old: What God has been to us men we know from history. We know then from history what He will be to us. Now to apply this there are three departments of human life in which this recurrence to the past is of great religious value. I. First there is the family, resting on God’s own ordinance, springing out of the most intimate and sacred ties that can unite human beings. Every family has its...

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The Bible in One Year

Posted by on Jan 5, 2015 in Further Study

— by Stanley A. Clark “One of the characters in Dostoyevsky’s great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is an old Russian Orthodox monk named Father Zossima. He is laying on his death bed, reflecting on his life, and says this: “What a book the Holy Bible is! What a miracle, and what strength it gives… to man! It is just like a sculpture of the whole world and all its human characters… what mysteries are solved,...

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Praise

Posted by on Dec 30, 2014 in Blog Posts

–by Stanley A. Clark (Member of Providence Community Church) View more posts from Stanley at the Presup.org Blog! I have been an amateur radio operator since my teenage years. My interests in radio have always been practical rather than theoretical, which is to say I was in the hobby not for the theories of electronics, nor to build and experiment with radios; but rather, to simply talk to other operators around the world. But along the...

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A.W. Towzer on The Lord of Hosts and His Church (extra reading for “The Glory of the Condescended Christ” sermon)

Posted by on Dec 29, 2014 in Further Study

A W Tozer from his book “Knowledge of the Holy”… “When viewed from the perspective of eternity, the most critical need of this hour may well be that the Church should be brought back from her long Babylonian captivity and the name of God be glorified in her again as of old. Yet we must not think of the Church as an anonymous body, a mystical religious abstraction. We Christians are the Church and whatever we do is what...

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