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Sunday 23 February 
11am: Pastor Christopher Buss (Wiltshire); 6.30pm: Dr Peter Masters
Three-minute Evangelistic Shorts
Pay the Debt?
Gets Us to God
Without Repentance
Gospel Sermon Sunday 16 February 2025 | 6:30pm
How Real Life Comes from Christ
"/>On the last evening before His crucifixion, the Lord walked with His disciples from the upper room to the Garden of Gethsemane. At that time He exclaimed, 'I am the True Vine.' Here is the necessity of gaining life from Him, and what it accomplishes.
Teaching Sermon Sunday 16 February 2025 | 11:00am
Nine Spirit-Given Virtues
"/>Endowments, seen supremely in our Saviour, are hopefully growing continuously in believers by the power of the Spirit as they mortify the deeds of the flesh. Here is the key to our happiness in the Lord and our usefulness for Him.
Gospel Sermon Sunday 9 February 2025 | 6:30pm
How is Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life?
"/>Christ the Saviour does not merely guide us to eternal life, He is personally the road that leads there. Here is what He did to be the only true and certain way, and why only He can impart life to our souls.
Teaching Sermon Sunday 9 February 2025 | 11:00am
How the Spirit Sanctifies
"/>From defining the command, ' Walk in the Spirit', Paul turns to how the Spirit works, because after conversion the desires of our fallen natures are still within us. Here is the progressive conquest of the old nature by the new, through the work of the Spirit.
Bible Study Wednesday 12 February 2025 | 7:30pm
The Reasoning Style for Challenging Souls
"/>'Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.'
Bible Study Wednesday 5 February 2025 | 7:30pm
The Call of a Spokesman for God
"/>'The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.'
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Articles
The Unique Virtues of Sunday Schools
Dr Peter Masters
Like no other agency, Sunday Schools enable us to reach and draw a large part of the rising generation to the Saviour. Indeed, whether or not a congregation contains young people saved from the neighbourhood will usually depend on whether there has been an effective Sunday School.
Cessationism — Proving Charismatic Gifts have Ceased
Dr Peter Masters
Does the Bible teach definitively that the charismatic gifts have ceased? The ceasing of revelatory and sign-gifts in the time of the apostles is so plainly taught in God’s Word, that the opposite view has only seriously appeared in the last 100 years.
The Cup of Blessing
Dr Peter Masters
Why is it called the cup of blessing? It is the cup so well spoken of, so praised, and so esteemed, because it pictures the source of all our blessings. So much is represented in that cup: the atoning substitutionary death of Christ for our sin; his indescribable suffering bearing the eternal weight of punishment that we deserved.
That You May Know
Dr Harry Kilbride
God really does want his twice-born children to rejoice that their names are written in Heaven. However, we must test ourselves because there can be false assurance. There are believers and make-believers. The Apostle Paul urges his readers to: ‘Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves’.
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Books
The Charismatic Illusion
Peter Masters and John Whitcomb
Now with more answers to questions asked by people investigating the arguments, this veteran book contends for the biblical position on the gifts that prevailed for nearly 2,000 years before the charismatic movement came along. Here is the dynamic teaching of the Spirit that sustained true believers through dark and bright years of history.
The Personal Spiritual Life
Dr Peter Masters
From the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to a life of commitment these chapters stir and encourage readers to advance spiritually. How may we ‘feel’ the presence of the Lord? What was Paul’s method for progress in holiness? And how may we sustain spiritual joy? These are among the themes of this tonic for present-day disciples of Christ.
Building an Outreach Sunday School
Jill Masters
This practical manual for the pioneering and operating of Sunday Schools incorporates years of experience, and teems with information and tips (for small as well as large schools) from one who has pioneered and led Sunday School work for decades. This manual teems with information and tips which will help small as well as large Schools.
Christian Stewardship – Our Calling
Dr Peter Masters
Stewardship of means is a great privilege and blessing to those who owe so much to Christ the Lord. To be fellow-labourers with Christ is our high calling. This booklet sets out the New Testament texts showing the objectives, motives, scale and manner of giving for the kingdom of Christ and the souls of men and women.