Our text for our message today is in the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, verse thirteen: “Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.”
“John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.” From the various references in the New Testament to John Mark, we don’t have much difficulty in having a fairly clear insight into his life and character. He was the son of a Christian lady who lived in Jerusalem whose name was Mary, the sister of Barnabas.
Our text—the Acts of the Apostles, the twelfth chapter and the fifth verse: “Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.”
In this chapter there is an incident which touches right at the very heart of our experience as Christian people. I do trust that this story, which just reaches down to grass roots, may really speak to our hearts today that we may apply it, every one of us, to our own lives.
Here is an insight in this chapter into the great warfare of the Christian life, and …
Notes of a message preached by Pastor Alan Redpath on Sunday, March 3, 1957.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” —Matthew 11:28–30
The sequence of teaching in this chapter throws light upon these well-known words. The Saviour had pronounced in severe tones the doom of the impenitent. The cities which had seen the working …
Notes of a message preached by Pastor Alan Redpath on Sunday, January 20, 1957.
Perhaps to many of you, this subject of witness and soulwinning brings almost a blush to your face in the recognition that you have never really seriously attempted to lead anyone to know Jesus Christ as his Savior. To others it brings a sense of shame because so often we have failed. Perhaps there was a time when we began to speak a word, but maybe from the derision of the one to whom we were speaking or the laughter or the jesting of others, or …
