Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was a well-known evangelist in the 19th century who revolutionized evangelism in the United States. D. L. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1837 to Edwin and Betsey Holton Moody. Edwin died in 1841, leaving Betsey to raise nine children...
Today I wish to introduce you to a prolific hymn writer named Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg). Personal/Family Details Lina was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns.She was the daughter of a Lutheran minister and grew up in the rectory at Fröderyd parish in the Diocese...
Good morning God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). As the community hysteria and chaos surrounding the coronavirus is going on all around you (we now have bus loads of “supermarket tourists” arriving in...
The Gospel of John is the only Gospel which mentions “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” John 13:23 tells us, “One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to Him.” John 19:26 declares, “When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He...
A Guide To Understanding the World of Angels The origin and nature of angels Angels are created beings (Psalm 148:2, 5; Col. 1:16) They are non-human spirit beings (Heb. 1:14) They cannot die (Luke 20:36) They cannot be numbered (Heb. 12:22) They are normally invisible but can manifest themselves to...
This week my message is on the subject “Add to your faith virtue.” The word virtue is a two directional adjective meaning both moral excellence and courage. It takes courage to live a distinctly Christian life in todays world, wherever you are. For your further understanding of adding virtue to...
Today we shall look at what we as conservative evangelical Christians believe about the one True God. The scriptures that are quoted are not an exhaustive list in any way but simply key verses from which our understanding of the nature of God is drawn: There is one and only...
The Distinctives of an Evangelical Church Our church at Haddon is an evangelical church. In the next series of blogs, I want to inform you in detail of what doctrinally defines and distinguishes a genuinely evangelical church. This series of blogs will detail for you what we believe as evangelical...
Few social issues have created more dissension and agitation in the Australian community as abortion on demand, and yet, to the Christian mind it is a simple, largely black and white matter. As a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I believe that all human beings are image bearers...
O sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire if the wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as...