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Labouring And Gaining Nothing
“What is the meaning of life and is life worth living?” Ecclesiastes begins by asking what profit a man has from all his labour under the sun. Many measure life by its quality, possessions, work, pleasure, or relationships, but the preacher shows that apart from God such pursuits become labouring and gaining nothing.
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The Lord Who Strengthens
Isaiah 40 is one of the most comforting chapters in the Bible. God’s people, weary and uncertain, are reminded that “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength.” Even the young shall faint and fall, but “they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they…
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The God Who Cares
Based on a series of sermons preached in PCC Prayer Meetings in 2020 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator…
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Listen, O Isles, Unto Me!
By Rev Samuel Rutherforda Preparation Sermon, before the communion, at [Church]mabreck, 19 July 1634published by Rev. Andrew A Bonar, Glasgow, 1876 (reproduced in https://archive.org/stream/fourtcomm00ruth);minimally modernised, edited and footnoted by JJ LimPart 3 of 3: Christ’s Complaint & Confidence Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from…
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Ten Reasons Why We Must Be Reformed And Reforming
And why you should join such a church Part 3 of 3: Eighth to Tenth Reasons [This is the third tranche of a three part series of articles to commemorate the Protestant Reformation. We are considering ten reasons why a church should be Reformed and reforming and why we should be part of such a…
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Ten Reasons Why We Must Be Reformed And Reforming
And why you should join such a church Part 2 of 3: Fourth to Seventh Reasons [This is the second tranche of a three part series of articles to commemorate the Protestant Reformation. We are considering ten reasons why a church should be Reformed and reforming and why we should be part of such a…
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Ten Reasons Why We Must Be Reforme And Reforming
And why you should join such a churchPart 1 of 3: First Three Reasons On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther nailed the famed Ninety Five Theses on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg in Germany. That action is popularly regarded as the catalyst for the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Although many more…