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.
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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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Divine use of Sickness
CP34 Divine use of Sickness
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important.
Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).Please support our tract ministry by donating on the tract website (see sidebar). Because of your donations we can offer these tracts online, and for free. Read the Tract CH34
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