Recent content by Martin Marprelate

Where did I suggest that anyone could give birth to himself? Nowhere. It is you who 'defect' (deflect?) by suggesting that people dead in trespasses and sins can seek God, in direct contradiction of several texts, including 1 Cor. 2:14. Romans 3:11. 'There is none who seeks God.' Full stop...

We do not celebrate Passover. We are not remembering Israel's exodus, but our Lord's death on the cross. "Do this in remembrance of Me.' I realise that you did not say otherwise. Just so. "As often as you eat this bread or drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.' There...

It is, or was, the custom for Scottish Presbyterian church to have only one or two 'Communion seasons' each year. During the famous 'Cambuslang awakening' of 1742, a decision was taken to have an extra communion. A well-known minister, James Robe of Kilsyth wrote: ‘It hath not been known in...

John 3:3. 'Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Not only will he not enter it (v.5), but he cannot even understand it. We need no better example of this that Nicodemus. He hasn't the faintest idea what the Lord Jesus is talking about. "How can a man be born when he...

'Out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants .......' (Psalm 2:8; Matt. 21:16; c.f. 1 Cor. 1:27). But having said that, no, I do not forsee my church engaging this young lady in the near future, or indeed, ever.

Ah, John 1:12-13. What great verses those are for believers in Free Grace! 'But as many as received Him, to them He ave the right to become children of God, to thoswho believe in His name: who were born, 'Not of blood.......' Being born to Christian parents, or into a so-called Christian...

Genesis 50:20. 'But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.' God determines all things, but at the same time He is not the author or approver of evil (Psalm 50:21; 1 John 2:16). If we find it...

Very troubling.

If the prospective member is transferring in from another church, then the first thing to do is to write to that church. If it's a like-minded church and the leaders write back saying that the person has been a member in good standing, that's a very helpful sign. The guy would still have to...

My church is holding an outreach this month. We shall be calling on around 1,000 houses that surround the church and presenting each house with a copy of Luke's Gospel with an evangelistic introduction. Please pray that God will bless our efforts and that many people will come to faith. There...

From an article in a British Christian newspaper, Evangelical Times www.evangelical-times.org The air strikes by Israel and the United States against Iran have shocked the world and sparked brutal retaliation across the Middle East. The bid to weaken or overturn Tehran’s hardline Islamic...

That's a great testimony! Welcome to the B.B. :D

I don't recall saying those words. However, I do commend you to Romans 10:14-17, and also to Esther 4:14. God will save all his elect, but He will do it through the preaching of the Gospel (Mark 13:10; 1 Cor. 9:16). FWIW, I am a Calvinist in the footsteps of Bunyan, Carey, Spurgeon and...

You are correct that anothen is usually translated as 'from above' in the New Testament. The one place where it clearly means 'again.' is in Gal. 4:9. The reason why almost every Bible version translates anothen as 'again' is that Nicodemus understaood our Lord to mean that. "How can a man be...

I'm sorry. I just assumed that you would pick up on Eph. 1:3-6; Thes. 2:13 & Titus 1:2. Obviously not. This is the problem. You set one verse against the other, thereby making one false when both are true. Why do you not embolden verse 39 as well? 'This is the will of Him who sent Me...