Church Revival Movement

Some 350 years ago, our faithful Reformed forefathers in Scotland took hold of the covenant of grace in their National Covenant, by this means fulfilling their duty and privilege as Christ’s witnessing church in the British Isles. Thus was born the Second, or Covenanted Reformation of religion in those Isles, sustained and greatly furthered by the swearing of the Solemn League and Covenant five years later. The latter “covenanted uniformity of religion” undergirded the work of the famous Westminster Assembly, and bound the covenanting churches and nations to the adoption and implementation of that Assembly’s work (the Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms, Directory for Public Worship, and Form of Church-Government). Sadly, of these churches and nations Scotland was most faithful to pay her vows, and only for a brief time. In 1650, a deadly, Church-dividing blow was dealt by the majority of backsliding civil and ecclesiastical leaders in their support of the “Public Resolutions.” England and Ireland had already broken their sacred bond. The next four decades were times of bitter and often unrelenting trial for the faithful, protesting remnant (which included such men as Samuel Rutherford, Archibald Johnston of Warriston, James Guthrie, Patrick Gillespie, John Brown of Wamphray, Robert M,Ward, William Guthrie, Donald Cargill, Richard Cameron, and James Renwick), who themselves by God’s grace were unrelenting in their testimony against the covenant-breaking Resolutioners and the defections in Church and State. Read more…

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I have been a born-again Christian for 13 years now and my walk with God has made me discover and understand him the more. I now see him differently from the way I used to see him when I was an unbeliever; I have come to realize that he is a God of prosperity. There is no poverty and failure in him: Every good thing comes from him because he made all things good from the beginning and gave us dominion over all things, including failure and penury.
Examples abound in the scripture, of people whom God prospered and made great. I will only mention few of them because of time. Read more…

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The traditional Seventh-day Adventist Church Service has a familiar worship order. Similar to many other Protestant religions, traditional Adventist services tend to follow this organized structure.
The traditional Adventist Church service usually starts out with singing classical hymns, such as Amazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, and Blessed Assurance. The organ and piano accompany a song leader who stands at the pulpit. They would then Stop about mid way through the song service to give announcements about what has happened during the week, to welcome those who are visiting, and to have a prayer. Then, they usually start out with a prayer request Read more…

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It seems a relatively safe assumption that anyone even remotely connected with the Church has heard of Advent. However, it is an equally safe assumption, unfortunately, that most people do not really understand what this season is about. Squeezed as it is in between various holidays in a “holiday season” that now seems to begin with Halloween it is often completely overlooked. How sad that this season of joyful anticipation which commences the liturgical year is often shunted to one side in the hustle-bustle of shopping, baking, wrapping and partying that precedes Christmas. Why folks feel that it’s necessary and/or appropriate to have Christmas parties before Christmas and then spend the Christmas season doing nothing is beyond me. Yet that seems rather commonplace these days. We wind up spending all of Advent celebrating Christmas and then spend Christmas (which is a season not a day) taking down the decorations which many of us have had up since before Thanksgiving! Read more…

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The “Advent Movement” was begun by William Miller (1782-1849). Members of this movement believed in a personal and premillennial second coming of Jesus Christ.
Miller based his theology upon a literal interpretation of apocalyptic passages in the Bible and attempted to calculate the date of the Second Coming by using such passages, particularly those found in Daniel. His original conclusion was for the event to occur sometime between 1843 and 1844 (October 22nd, 1844, at the latest), and he convinced a lot of people to follow him in awaiting the event. Read more…

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