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Sunday 8 December 
services at 11am & 6.30pm: Dr Peter Masters
Three-minute Evangelistic Shorts
Pay the Debt?
Gets Us to God
Without Repentance
Gospel Sermon Sunday 1 December 2024 | 6:30pm
How is the Conscience Wounded or Repaired?
"/>We often hear it said that the conscience is a religious invention, a myth, inherited from ignorant generations, But such shallow thinking is easily refuted. Here is the Bible speaking on how conscience is abused, and how it may be cleansed.
Teaching Sermon Sunday 1 December 2024 | 11:00am
Spiritual Rags to Riches
"/>Paul here focuses on the coming of Christ, and we consider why the timing was chosen by God, the love that sent Christ into the world, the obedience of Christ to the law, His redeeming work, and the privilege of adoption as sons and daughters.
Gospel Sermon Sunday 24 November 2024 | 6:30pm
When God Changes Your Mind
"/>Here is the very first sermon of the Christian Church, given by Peter in Jerusalem. Thousands of Jews were challenged to change their entire way of thinking, and to seek the forgiveness of Christ. This is what happened and how 3000 were totally changed that day.
Teaching Sermon Sunday 24 November 2024 | 11:00am
Everything Depends on Christ
"/>Who is the 'seed' of Abraham to whom the promises of salvation were given? Saved people from all lands (many not being descendants of Abraham) are the outcome. Christ primarily is the seed, and the redeemed are His by adoption. Here is the key to so much.
Bible Study Wednesday 4 December 2024 | 7:30pm
The World and the Church in Saul and David
"/>'And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.'
Bible Study Wednesday 27 November 2024 | 7:30pm
The First Major Test of Faith
"/>'And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? ... And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.'
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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.
The Immeasurable, Personal Love of Christ to His People
Dr Peter Masters
It is an astonishing concept for us that Christ Jesus, the Lord of glory, should dearly love his people. Here is an opportunity for us just to skim the surface of that mighty, unspeakable love. He has bound himself to each one of his people, even to the weakest, the youngest, and the smallest, with a depth of affection beyond human comprehension.
Sincerity First and Foremost in the Christian Armour
Dr Peter Masters
When several virtues are presented as the Christian’s armour, sincerity is the piece which must be donned first as foundational to all others. If not the 'greatest' it is a pivotal virtue. Do we possess it? And do we know how to maintain it?
The Necessity and Justification for the Free Offer of the Gospel
Rev. Malcolm Watts
God has laid in the record of the Gospel a firm foundation for the faith of sinners. They have his own warrant and therefore a perfect right to receive the Lord Jesus, in all his grace and fulness, for their salvation. Faith is receiving Christ, but no person can receive anything unless it is first offered to him as a gift (John 3.27; 4.10).
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Books
Worship or Entertainment?
Dr Peter Masters
Where will your church be five or ten years from now? – asks the author. With the adoption of contemporary music worship many have already changed beyond recognition. Yet more will do so. Here are four essential principles which Jesus Christ laid down for worship, and by which every new idea must be judged.
Compassion for Souls
Dr Peter Masters
It is amazing how much detailed and practical guidance is stored in the Gospels and the Book of Acts for all who engage in personal witness and preaching. Are we aware that the Lord Jesus Christ employed distinctive strategies for different kinds of unbeliever, and these may be studied and employed?
Wonders of Grace
Hannah Wyncoll - Compiler
Drawn from the early years of Spurgeon’s remarkable London ministry, these 138 testimonies of conversion form part of an archive of some 15,000 such accounts at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Here is a powerful reaffirmation of the transforming power of the Gospel in individual lives.
Remember the Lord’s Day
Dr Peter Masters
Why was the Sabbath instituted by the Lord? Does it continue as the Lord’s Day? If so, how has it changed with the coming of Christ? How should it be kept? This booklet responds, showing that the sabbath principle is still God’s will for believers today, and listing its purposes and blessings.
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Metropolitan Tabernacle Bookshop
The Tabernacle Bookshop is a Christian Bookshop based in London, stocking a variety of sound Christian books from famous authors such as Thomas Watson, John Owen, C.H. Spurgeon, Jay Adams and many others – including Peter Masters, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle since 1970.
The Tabernacle Bookshop is one of the UK’s oldest reformed Christian bookshops and the largest distributor of Christian Sunday School lessons.
See the bookshop website for opening hours and more information.