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26/05/2026

You may have heard of David Brainerd, but have you heard of his brother John? Here are some facts about them:

▶️ David Brainerd’s entire ministry lasted only three years before his death at the age of 29.

▶️ John, David's younger brother, continued in the Gospel work for another 30 years with the same zeal and devoutness, and was buried under the church in America, with a marble slab bearing the words: ‘Beneath here moldereth the dust of the Rev. John Brainerd – died March, 1781.’

▶️ David and John were the 6th and 7th children born to Godly parents. Both parents were called to glory by the time David and John were 14 and 12 years old respectively. Their care and education were left with their older siblings in the family of 9 children.

A extract of a letter from John to David in their later years:
_Why should we sink and grow discouraged with any particular trials which we encounter in this world? Death and eternity are before us – a few more tossing billows will waft us into the world of spirits and we hope into endless pleasures and uninterrupted rest and peace. Let us, then, run with patience the race set before us. O, that we could depend more on the living God and less upon our own wisdom and strength. My dear brother, may the God of all grace comfort your heart and make you an instrument of good to His people in your day. This is the constant prayer of your affectionate brother._

Let us pray for more of such dedicated sibling pairs in the ministry!

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07/03/2026

Aren’t we told that it was the custom of Christ to be in the synagogue on the Sabbath Day? I cannot tell what ignorance and error and stupidity he heard from the speakers there during the thirty years he went each Sabbath with his family to the synagogue in Nazareth, but he knew it was his duty to be there, and he was always present. Then I shall be with the assembly of God on the Sabbath too. - Geoff Thomas

05/03/2026

"Men are called to the knowledge of God not because of what they can get out of it, nor primarily for what such knowledge will do to them, but because the knowledge of God is sublime, glorious and final. To ask what relevance such knowledge is meant to have is blasphemous. Because of who God is, the knowledge of God carries its own justification. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever."
-Paul Helm (1940-2025)

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02/03/2026

"O MAKER AND UPHOLDER OF ALL THINGS,

Day and night are thine, and mine from thee—
the night to rid me of the cares of the day, to refresh my weary body, to renew my natural strength;

the day to summon me to new activities, to give me opportunity to glorify thee, to serve my generation, to acquire knowledge, holiness, eternal life. "

Excerpt from Valley of Vision

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Come Ye Apart by James R. Miller https://www.reformedbooks.org/shop/9781599252070-come-ye-apart-4943

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31/12/2025

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"Our continual praying shows that we are always beggars, and our continual thanksgiving shows that we are always debtors. Thanksgiving then is mercy returned heavenward to its source, a holy reflection of the warm sunbeams of God’s blessings shining upon us.

Every gracious soul confesses two things: “No one in the world has deserved less of God than I, and no one has received more from God than I. How much, then, am I bound to be thankful!”"
-William Cooper, Puritan Sermons 1659-1689

Let us end 2025 and begin 2026 with thanksgiving.

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25/12/2025

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” — John 1:14

He was conceived not of the substance, but by the power of the Holy Ghost, not by His generation, but by His appointment and benediction. His incarnation is the wisdom of God in a mystery of love.
-Basil of Caesarea

Christmas Greetings to all!

20/12/2025

THE CHRISTMAS THREAT TO ACCEPTABLE WORSHIP by Donald Whitney

We entered a large evangelical church with secular, often-humorous Christmas music playing. The Pastor was known to be a good expositor and we hoped to hear an expository sermon.

🎄A few people sang ‘O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree.’ I wondered why they couldn’t be encouraged to sing lyrics such as ‘Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity.’

The service began with music minister walking out in his red sweater and khakis shouting, ‘It’s CHRISTMAS!’ He instructed us that whenever he shouted this (which he did about half-a-dozen times during the service), we were to shout back.

Then the music minister donned a Santa cap. Three volunteers whistled a stanza of ‘Jingle Bells.’ After they received a round of applause, the entire congregation was required to whistle a stanza.

We heard no preaching at all. It was the Lord’s Day. What about those attending who never or rarely hear the preaching of God’s Word except on occasions like Christmas and Easter?

I left more convinced than ever about the necessity of teaching the Regulative Principle of Worship. Without this anchor, there’s nothing to keep a church from ending up with services like this except the preference of its people and leaders.

May the Lord enable us to worship, as the Scripture says, in both ‘spirit and truth,’ with both ‘reverence and awe.’
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#2026

01/10/2025

"Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻" (1 Kings 2:1-2).

"Now, sirs, we have fallen upon the dregs of time. 𝙈𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙; we have not many left now. We have no men in government hardly, to conduct our politics, and scarcely any men in religion... Men who dare to be singular, because to be singular is generally 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱, are not very many in this age. Compared with the puritanic times even, where are our divines!
Think of Rowland Hill, Newton, Toplady, Doddridge, and numbers of others whom time would fail me to mention. They are gone, they are gone; their venerated dust sleeps in the earth, and where are their successors? Ask where, and echo will reply, ‘Where?’ There are none. Successors of them, where are they? God hath not yet raised them up, or, if he have, you have not yet found out where they are.
-Charles Spurgeon on Habakkuk 3:2

𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱, 𝘖 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘰𝘥! 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴; 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱, 𝘖 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘰𝘥! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬; 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵! 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵! 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥; 𝘈𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘯, 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱, 𝘖 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘰𝘥! -William Pierson Merrill (1911)

15/08/2025

- Quote from "The Office and Power of a Magistrate”, Sermon on Romans 13, Thomas Manton