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John Gill

A Discourse on Prayer.

John GillA DISCOURSE ON PRAYER. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:15; former Part. What is it then ? I will pray the Spirit, and will pray with the understanding also. The design of this epistle is chiefly to reprove the Church at Corinth for the divisions and contentions, which were there fomented and kept up on account of ... Read More
Paris Reidhead

The Lord Our Healer – Part 1

Paris ReidheadThe Lord Our Healer – Part 1 By Paris Reidhead* Will you turn, please, to the back of your Bible to the little Epistle, 3rd Epistle of John. I shall soon join this Scripture with Exodus, the 15th Chapter. But we would begin here. We have announced this evening that we shall speak on the theme of Jeh... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

Bethel – God’s House

T. Austin-SparksThe way from Gilgal leads to Bethel. From Gilgal alone! Because Bethel is the house of God. We only get to the house of God through the Cross. What do we mean by the house of God? The expression ‘houses of God’ has created much confusion. It has given rise to the idea of holy ground, that is, places... Read More
Book Of Common Prayer 1979

Ministration to the Sick

In case of illness, the Minister of the Congregation is to be notified. At the ministration, one or more parts of the following service are used, as appropriate, but when two or more are used together, they are used in the order indicated. The Lord's Prayer is always included. Part One of this servi... Read More
Daily Light

JULY 23 - evening

Brethren, pray for us. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth muc... Read More
Desert Fathers

The way of the Pilgrim and The pilgrim continues his Way - Part 6

Desert Fathersprayer may be effective. For unless we forgive those who have injured us, God will not forgive our sins. Pass on now to the seventh chapter, and you will find in the seventh to the twelfth verses how to succeed in prayer, to be bold in hope—ask, seek, knock. These strong expressions depict frequency... Read More
John Nelson Darby

1 Corinthians 11

John Nelson DarbyHere we have another instance of how the greatest truths are brought into connection with commonplace subjects. Here is a question, whether a woman is to have a covering on or not. The whole ordering of God is brought in to say whether a woman is to wear a cap on her head (v. 3-16). It was the custo... Read More
Jon Courson

The Sweetness of Sweat - Acts 19:10-12

Jon CoursonDid you hear the news? A cosmetic company has collected the sweat of various movie stars, analyzed it, and reproduced the contents so it can be marketed throughout the country as ‘Scent From The Stars’. Personally, I think the idea ‘stinks’ — yet in our text, we see the people of Ephesus seemingly l... Read More
Robert Barclay

A Confession of Faith, containing twenty three Articles

ARTICLE I. Concerning God, and the True and Saving Knowledge of him. There is one God [Eph. 4:6; 1 Cor. 8:4,6] Who is a Spirit [John 4:24] And This is the Message which the Apostles heard of him, and declared unto the Saints, That he is Light, and in him is no Darkness at all [1 John 1:5] There are ... Read More
Stanley H. Frodsham

An helpmeet for him

Stanley H. FrodshamIn the second part of the Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan introduces us to one Mr. Greatheart, who guided and guarded Christiana and her sons on their way to the Celestial City. The one whose story we are telling was a Mr. Greatheart. He surely had a great heart of love and loyalty to his Master, for so ... Read More

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