Training of the Twelve
By Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831-1899)
In this 61 chapter work by Bruce (Free Church of Scotland), he presents us with Christ’s training of his 12 apostles. Some of his chapters are on personal evangelism, prayer, fasting, holiness, confronting the Pharisees and Sadducces. the coming cross, temper, the transfiguration, servanthood, etc.
CONTENTS
Brown The Devil's Mission of Amusement 7 page article from 1889. Hollywood in the church and her ministries. Brown was a student of C.H Spurgeon.
Excerpts:
Different days demand their own special testimony. The watchman who would be faithful to his Lord and to the city of his God needs to carefully note the signs of the times and to emphasize his witness accordingly. Concerning the testimony needed now, there can be little if any doubt. An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, that is so gross, so brazen in its impudence, that the most shortsighted of spiritual men can hardly fail to notice it.... Amusement for the people is the leading article advertised by each... until the hideous fact has been proved up to the hilt, that "amusement" is ousting "the preaching of the Gospel" as the great attraction... The Concert is fast becoming as much a recognized part of church life as the Prayer Meeting; and it is already, in most places, far better attended.
"Providing recreation for the people" will soon be looked upon as a necessary part of Christian work, and as binding upon the Church of God, as though it were a Divine command, unless some strong voices are raised which will make themselves heard.
Read the 7-page article: Brown, The Devil's Mission of Amusement.
Forward by Olan Hendrix
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Beginnings
2. Fishers of Men
3. Matthew the Publican
4. The Twelve
5. Hearing and Seeing
6. Lessons on Prayer
7. Lessons in Religious Liberty; or, the Nature of True Holiness
8. First Attempts at Evangelism
9. The Galilean Crises.
10. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduces
11. Peter’s Confession; or, Current Opinion and Eternal Truth
12. First Lesson on the Cross
13. The Transfiguration
14. Training in Temper; or, Discourse on Humility
15. The Sons of Thunder
16. In Perea; or, the Doctrine of Self Sacrifice
17. The Sons of Zebedee Again; or, Second Lesson on the Docrine of the Cross
18. The Anointng in Bethany; or, Third Lesson on the Doctrine of the Cross
19. Firstfruits of the Gentiles
20. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Or, Discourse on the Last Things
21. The Master Serving; or, Another Lesson in Humility
22. In Memoriam; or, Fourth Lesson on the Doctrine of the Cross
23. Judas Iscariot
24. The Dying Parent and the Little Ones
25. Dying Charge to the Future Apostles
26. The Intercessory Prayer
Appendix to Chapters 24–26
27. The Sheep Scattered
28. The Shepherd Restored
29. The Under-Shepherds Admonished
30. Power from on High
31. Waiting
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pc10 Sexual Purityis an exhortation to purity in sexual matters for the Christian. We look at various aspects of the issue.
Topics: It is not an impossible fight! | The Biblical Model | Homosexuality and Prostitution | Nudity and the Mind | Self-Stimulation | Resisting the Temptation.
Excerpts: Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Job understood that sexual sin begins with the sight, and the seeing before desiring. Job made a covenant with himself, a commitment that he would not look on young women to desire them or to let his imagination run wild with them even their image or in his thoughts. Equally, Jesus taught us in Mat. 5:28 that even thinking sinful thoughts without doing them is as sinful as actually doing them. This is an amplification of Exo 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife”. David saw before taking (2Sam 11:2).
Fasting is to teach us that the body does not control over us, and this is exactly what is necessary for people with this problem. This sin is pinned to the thoughts, “for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he” Pro 23:7. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” Phil 4:13.
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