Beware of the Counsel of Gamaliel

By Dr Peter Masters

Whenever wisdom is needed to assess the latest strange idea or movement to penetrate the churches, we hear the ‘counsel of Gamaliel’ quoted – especially when there is no scriptural support for something.

C H Spurgeon on the Present Financial Crisis

By C H Spurgeon

Financial scandals demonstrate the foolishness of believing that you can have morality without Christianity. Spurgeon here refers to the crisis around Overend, Gurney and Company, which collapsed in 1866. The Bank of England refused to bail it out, leading to the collapse of over 200 other banks and companies. How history repeats itself.

3. A Defence of the Authenticity of the Woman Taken in Adultery

By Dr Jeff Riddle

‘..When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.’ (John 8.10-11)

Dramatic Historic Falls from Grace (2)

By Dr Nick Needham

From Divine Revelation to Human Reason
Dr Needham’s second address was a case study of the Free Church of Scotland from its formation in 1843 as the most conservative-evangelical Calvinistic denomination in Scotland, to its collapse into liberalism in a single generation. ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.’

Dramatic Historic Falls from Grace (1)

By Dr Nick Needham

From Divine Revelation to Human Experience
Dr Nick Needham brought two timely addresses, sounding an alert about the subtlety and swiftness of satanically-driven decline in the thinking and belief of evangelical churches once error enters in. The first of these tracked the course of Friedrich Schleiermacher, a nineteenth-century theologian, who began as an evangelical but became ‘the father of liberalism’. History repeats itself continuously.