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Biblical Mission Arises from Biblical Longing and Supplication

This is the second of four posts from Peter Schild (translated by Michael T. Schmid) which together constitute his booklet The Church and Missions. ‘As they ministered to the Lord and fasted…’ — Acts 13:2 There is a real danger that a church becomes stagnant in self-satisfaction. The church at Antioch could have said, ‘We […]

Author Peter Schild

Category Articles

Date November 24, 2025

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Why Did the Pilgrims Really Go to America?

On 21 November 1620 the Mayflower made landfall in what is now Provincetown Harbour, Massachussetts. 37 of its 102 passengers were English ‘Pilgrims’ from the separatist church in Leiden, Holland. Their pioneering settlement of Plymouth Colony laid the foundations for the eventual formation of the United States of America. The pilgrims’ motivation for leaving Europe […]

Author Dr. Robert Tracy McKenzie

Category Articles

Date November 19, 2025

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The Crown-Rights of Christ — John Angell James

The verses below, written by the Rev. J. Angell James, were featured in the June 1845 edition of The English Presbyterian Messenger, on page 25. “It was delightful to hear the Rev. J. Angell James thus expressing himself.-‘How sweet is that word, “The crown rights of Christ!”‘”   “The crown rights of Christ!” how sweet is […]

Author John Angell James

Category Poem

Date November 13, 2025

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Biblical Mission is Grounded in Biblical Churches

This is the first of four posts from Peter Schild (translated by Michael T. Schmid) which together constitute his booklet The Church and Missions. ‘Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the […]

Author Peter Schild

Category Articles

Date November 10, 2025

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The Unbloody Violence of the Christian Life: Thomas Watson Excerpt

Our latest Puritan Paperback volume is Thomas Watson’s Heaven Taken by Storm or The Christian Soldier, Showing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit after Glory. It is an extended meditation on, and application of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 11:12: ‘The kingdom of heaven suffereth […]

Author Thomas Watson

Category Book Excerpts

Date October 28, 2025

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