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John Hooper – Bishop of Gloucester And Protestant Martyr

John Hooper – Bishop of Gloucester & Protestant Martyr

By Sylvia Lacoski

 
It has been truly said that history is an antidote to popery. The decline of the Church began when Constantine made Christianity the religion of the State and when a corrupt Papacy was the spokesman for the Gospel. In pre-Reformation times in England the prevailing feature of religion was gross ignorance. The people had no Bible to guide them, and the prayers of the Church were in… Continue reading

John Cooper – A Protestant Martyr Who Was Not Burnt At The Stake

John Cooper – A Protestant Martyr Who Was Not Burnt At The Stake

 
The Suffolk village of Wattisham is not very large. The traveler is surprised to find in it a large Baptist Chapel. It has been a center of evangelical witness for many years. The parts of our country where there is a strong evangelical testimony today are often places where in the times of bitter persecution steadfast souls kept the faith and lost their lives in its… Continue reading

The Burning Of Richard Bayfield

The Burning Of Protestant Martyr Richard Bayfield

The Converted Monk of Bury

by Sylvia Lacoski

 

Tyndale’s New Testament

 
Tyndale’s New Testament was completed in 1525 and sent to England. The Roman Catholic authorities did all they could to suppress the book. It was publicly burned; it was denounced. All the arguments of Sir Thomas More to keep it out of the hands of the people only aroused their suspicions, for they concluded there must be something very different… Continue reading

Why Should A Calvinist Preach The Gospel?

Why Should A Calvinist Preach The Gospel?

By Dr. Ken Matto

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“Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. (1 Thessalonians 1:4)”

 

Introduction – Our Spiritual Condition From Birth

 
I used the moniker of Calvinist because no matter how many times we show from the Scriptures these doctrines, they still call us “Calvinists.” One of the most common questions which is asked of us who have embraced the biblical doctrines of predestination and election is “If God has… Continue reading

Are You Good?

Are You Good?

By Dr. Ken Matto

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Your answer to that question may be an unequivocal “yes”. You may support a children’s hospital or you may volunteer for something and by worldly standards you probably are good, but God has a different standard. Does the Bible teach something different about the description of “good?”
 
Romans 3:12 says: “They are ALL gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is NONE that doeth good,… Continue reading

Featured Gospel Message

Christ Died For The Ungodly

by Horatius Bonar

The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that "there is none righteous, no, not one"; that there is "none that doeth good"; none "that understandeth"; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa. 14:1-3; Rom. 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will "by no means clear the guilty." <continued>