Solus Christus Reformed Baptist Church

All manner of hurrying just to get members into the church is most harmful, both to the church and to the supposed converts. I remember very well several young men who were of good moral character and religiously promising. Instead of searching their hearts and aiming at their real conversion, the pastor never gave them any time to think about their spiritual condition. Instead, he pestered until he persuaded them (not the Spirit) to make a profession.

A study of the evangelistic method of Jonathan Edwards in such sermons as Pressing Into Kingdom, God Makes Men Sensible of Their Misery, Tne Manner in which Salvation is to be Sought. Why was there an appeal to mercenary motives? Were the applications what is sometimes labeled "preparationism" in fact so? Was Edwards alone in his instructions to the unconverted sinner, or did this in fact follow the Puritan Tradition? Why has modern evangelism shunned the type of awakening illustrated in Christian in his awakening detailed in the allegory Pilgrim's Progress?

Though I sat under Albert Martin's Ministry in 1984-1985, From the years 2009-to 2020 I was his neighbor and computer tech and tutor. There was a reason that I was given this privilege. This is my assessment and reflections that I have been contemplating when we heard that he passed away on April 7th. how the end of his life on earth affected me.

Update about our trip to New Jersey for our son's wedding. Also, while we were going to the church that Albert Martin pastored for 46 years, we discovered he had passed into heaven just a few hours before. So I wanted to honor him from my own experience from my days at TBC and over 11 years as his neighbor, and close friend as I began teaching him how to use a personal computer and served him anytime he needed us to come over and fix a printer, or even line up the rows in his email program. It was such a privilege.

As soon as a man lets his work become a matter of mere form or routine, it sinks into a performance in which the preacher is simply an actor. He is only acting a part, as he might in a play at the theatre, and not speaking from his inmost soul, as a man sent from God. I implore you to speak from your hearts or else don't speak at all.

The Revival of 1800, also known as the Red River Revival, was a series of evangelical Christian meetings which began in Logan County, Kentucky. These ignited the subsequent events and influenced several of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening. The events represented a transition from British traditions to innovations arising from the unique needs and culture of Americans in the new century, especially on the frontier. The startling manifestations of revival fervor that first occurred in June 1800 at the Red River Meeting House, a small Presbyterian congregation led by James McGready, began as a Scottish sacrament service, but led to the important innovation of serial religious services later known as camp meetings. (Wiki)

This is an examination of the works of John Owen that are in volumes 6 and 7 for the new reader trying to understand John Owen's writings and arguments.

The 1857 Manhattan Revival, also known as the Fulton Street Revival or the Great Prayer Revival, began on September 23, 1857, when businessman Jeremiah Lanphier initiated a noon prayer meeting at the North Dutch Reformed Church in lower Manhattan. Despite starting with only one other person, the gathering grew rapidly to six men by 12:30 PM, and within three weeks, forty attendees were praying for the city's spiritual awakening. Economic turmoil from the Panic of 1857, which left 30,000 New Yorkers unemployed, created a desperate atmosphere that fueled the revival's expansion. By November, prayer meetings were held in every church and even filled all floors of the North Dutch building, with 6,000 men reported praying in a single hour. The movement quickly spread to other cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, and eventually reached Ireland and Scotland and beyond.

When God sends forth His servants to preach the Gospel the Devil soon after prompts his emissaries to proclaim "another gospel": when God speaks the Devil gives a mocking echo. Satan has found that he can work far more effectively by counterfeiting the Truth than by openly denying it, hence in every age "false prophets" have abounded, and therefore we should be neither surprised nor stumbled by their number or success in our own day.

CASE 12. Shouldn't a person who is not comfortably persuaded of his being a real Christian, abstain from the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, lest he eat and drink damnation to himself? And what method must that person take to satisfy a church of Christ of his being a real Christian, who cannot relate any particular experience of the dealings of God with his soul?

You are now deprived of being in Heaven; you are deprived of hearing the gospel; the devil has been too hard for you, and has made you miss of Heaven; you are now in Hell among an innumerable company of devils, and all your sins beset you round; you are all over wrapped in flames, and cannot have one drop of water to give you any ease; you cry in vain, for nothing will be granted.

While the verses before us were addressed first and locally to the Jews of Christ's day, yet it is obvious that they have a far wider application, that they belong to the Gentiles of our day. As we have proceeded through this Sermon section by section, we have endeavoured to point out again and again and make clear the force and relevancy of our Lord's words as they respected His immediate hearers and also their pertinency unto and bearing upon ourselves.

A Compare and Contrast of the University Student Revivals in the news, with the revivals in American in the early years.

That Dr. Nettleton possessed peculiar skill in presenting truth to the minds of men, and laboring in revivals of religion, will be admitted by most who are at all acquainted with his history. During that protracted period of conviction, through which he passed before his reconciliation to God, he obtained a knowledge of the human heart which few possess. He could trace the secret windings of human depravity. He understood the refuges of lies to which sinners are prone to resort, and he knew how to meet and to answer the various excuses by which they attempted to shield themselves from blame.

Many are not sensible enough of the necessity of holiness in order to salvation. Everyone hopes for heaven, but if everyone that hoped for heaven ever got there, heaven by this time would have been full of murderers, adulterers, common swearers, drunkards, thieves, robbers,, and licentious debauchers. It would have been full of all manner of wickedness and wicked men, such as the earth abounds with at this day. There would have been those there that are no better than wild beasts, howling wolves, and poisonous serpents; yea, devils incarnate, as Judas was.

An analysis of evangelism counseling in American Church History and the Counseling of the Awakened Sinner. How the allegorical picture called the Slough of Despond from Pilgrim's Progress disappeared in counseling after the 1st generation of Princeton Theological Seminary to the modern "Free Grace Movement."

While he is thus summoned to appear at the great assizes of God's judgment, behold, a quartersessions and jail-delivery is held within himself; where reason sits as judge, the devil puts in a bill of indictment, wherein is alleged all your evil deeds that ever you have committed, and all the good deeds that ever you have omitted, and all the curses and judgments that are due to every sin. Your own conscience shall accuse you, and your memory shall give bitter evidence, and death stands at the bar ready, as a cruel executioner, to dispatch you.

Abandon your course of self-pleasing, bewail your rebellion against God and set your heart firmly against sill. Third, surrender yourself to God's righteous claims and yield yourself unreservedly to the Lordship of Christ. That exhortation is enforced by the following reason: "for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat." All who are unconverted proceed along it.

Poor deluded creature! The cursed enchantress persuaded him that she would conduct him to a paradise; but he soon finds his feet entangled in the stocks, and bound with fetters of iron. He is more brutish than the ox, which will not without reluctance go to the place of slaughter, but must be forced and goaded onward by its driver.

Why is it that there are scarcely any left among us who really believe that only the few will reach heaven? There can only be one answer: because it is now generally held that heaven can be obtained on much easier terms than those prescribed by Christ. The adulterous generation in which our lot is cast are quite sure that heaven can be reached without treading the only way which leads there, that the kingdom of God can be entered without passing through "much tribulation"

Although God in them requires universal holiness of us, yet he does not do it in that strict and rigorous way as by the law, so as that if we fail in any thing, either as to the matter or manner of its performance, in the substance of it or as to the degrees of its perfection, that thereon both that and all we do besides should be rejected. But he does it with a contemperation of grace and mercy, so as that if there be a universal sincerity, in a respect to all his commands, he both pardons many sins, and accepts of what we do, though it come short of legal perfection; both on the account of the mediation of Christ.

The 5 questions posited to John Mac on his death-bed. An enthusiastic response to each. Why modern evangelicals don't accept assurance tied to evangelical obedience.

Sudden fears are attended with a stupefying influence upon those that want faith, but far different is the fact with regard to the righteous. The righteous man is as bold as a lion, for he knows, like the three children in Babylon, that the God whom he serves is able to deliver him, or to render him happy, though the desolation of others should involve the destruction, not only of all his outward comforts, but of his mortal life.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb and her mouth is smoother than oil. She talks of nothing but love, and pleasure, and perpetual delights. To hear her, one would suppose that she possessed the most generous and disinterested spirit. Her tongue is taught by him who betrayed Eve to paint the vilest sin with the most beautiful colours, and to conceal all its deformity and danger; but it is the part of a reasonable creature to look beyond the present moment, and to consider the end of things, as well as their beginning. There is sweetness indeed in the mouth of this strange woman, (Verse 4) But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edge sword.