We were once again blessed at the Lord's Table by visiting Saints, three generations in fact from Blackburn Gospel Hall in West Lothian. Our friends Philip and Elizabeth Clough also joined us.
In the evening Douglas Rae of Leeds conducted our Gospel Meeting. He drew our attention to the words of our Lord, recorded in John 14 1-14, words of reassurance, comfort and of a certain hope. Hallelujah, what a Saviour!
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Tuesday 12 April 2011
The Lord's Day
We were pleased to welcome visitors from Ely, West Mersea and Leeds at the Breaking of Bread meeting. We were blessed to have as our speaker David Cartwright from the assembly at Redcar, Cleveland. He spoke from the story of Zaccheus as recorded in Luke 19 1-10 using it to stress how serious and how urgent is the matter of Salvation. The selection of hymns from Mission Praise I found particularly affecting: "One day when heaven was filled with His Praises", " I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene", "In loving kindness Jesus came, my soul in mercy to reclaim" and "Jesus my Lord will love me forever." My only caveat is that the Bible never describes sin as "black" but [in Isaiah 1 18] as "red" in the sense of a dye that is almost impossible to remove.
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Sunday evening at the Gospel Hall
On Sunday 3rd April our meeting was ably led by our Brother Frank Jackson of Hull. His choice of texts was Genesis 11 26-12 3 and ch. 25 1-11. He made an interesting point about the structure of the book of Genesis and suggested the promises made to Abram to be the "fulcrum" about which the book turns. Indeed all subsequent promises made by God to his people including the promise of the Saviour are in a sense contained in the promise to Abram. He is as important a figure to Christians as he is to Jews since he is to the former the spiritual progenitor and to the latter the natural forefather. Interesting use was made of the facts of Terah's life - his willingness to follow human tradition rather than to submit to the leading of God - and the tendency among both believers and non- believers to behave in a similar way. Again, a lesson can be drawn from the family move from Ur towards Canaan but stopping in Haran. See Hebrews 10 38/39. The presence of younger brethren in the meeting was a great encouragement.
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