Category: Worship

Star In The East

December 24, 2024 testadmin

 

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod,
Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has
been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to
worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem
with him.

Matthew 2:1-3

After they had heard the king, they went on their way,
and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of
them until it stopped over the place where the child
was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

Matthew 2: 9,10

On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother Mary,
and they bowed down and worshiped him.Then they opened their
treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense
and of myrrh.

Matthew 2:11

The Magi

December 23, 2023 testadmin

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from
them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them
to Bethlehem and said, “Go and make a careful search
for the child. As soon as you find him, report
to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”

After they had heard the king, they went on their way,
and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them
until it stopped over the place where the child was.When
they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother Mary,
and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened
their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and
of incense and of myrrh.

Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not
return to Herod, they departed for their own country another
way.

Matthew 2:7-12

The Case Is Mournful

August 28, 2023 testadmin

Spurgeon noted that many churches were no longer having prayer meetings.
Spiritual fervor was dwindling, congregations were thinning, and enthusiasm
for the gospel was quickly becoming extinct.

“Alas! many are returning to
the poisoned cups which drugged that declining generation. . . . Too many
ministers are toying with the deadly cobra of ‘another gospel,’ in the form of
‘modern thought.’ “

Who was chiefly to blame for the decline? Spurgeon believed it was the preachers:

“The case is mournful. Certain ministers are making infidels. Avowed atheists are
not a tenth as dangerous as those preachers who scatter doubt and stab at faith. . . .
Germany was made unbelieving by her preachers, and England is following in her tracks.”

Spurgeon made no effort to disguise his contempt for the modernists:

“These destroyers
of our churches appear to be as content with their work as monkeys with their mischief.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1832-1892)

From the Spurgeon Archive

Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy by John F. MacArthur, Jr.

 

The Magi

December 20, 2022 testadmin

 

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,
during the time of King Herod, Magi from the
east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is
the one who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star in the  east and have come
to worship him.”

Matthew 2:1-3