“Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure.” (Psalm 24.4) The metaphor of clean hands As the days shorten and get darker we Britons brace ourselves to get through another year end. This year it will be with all the added difficulties of our first full Brexit and Covid Winter and we need to be […]
Lockdown Meditations from Pastor Mohon – How to Survive COVID-19
Pastor Mohon of Stockton Presbyterian Reformed Church wrote two booklets of meditations to help us cope with the lock-downs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Tree Point Lesson
By Pastor Roy Mohon It is recorded of Solomon that “he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall.” (1 Kings 4.32-33) There is a lot that we can […]
Alice in Westminster
By Roy Mohon We might not have expected Alice in Wonderland to be mentioned in Parliament during the “same-sex marriage” debate but she was. We read of Alice that Humpty Dumpty said to her in a scornful tone, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, – neither more […]
His Only Son
By Pastor Roy Mohon The Apostles’ Creed dates from the end of the second century. It confesses Jesus Christ to be God’s ‘only Son’. Scripture, however, affirms that God has many sons.[1] In what sense is Christ God’s only Son? The rise of heresies resulted in the Nicene Creed of A.D. 325, which is universally […]
Defending Marriage
By Pastor Roy Mohon How are Christians to react now that the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act has been passed? Concerning marriage, the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God begins: ‘Although marriage be no sacrament, nor peculiar to the church, but common to mankind, and of public interest in every commonwealth etc.’ These […]
Iron Lady Meets Lord with Iron Rod
By Roy Mohon The newspapers have been full of Lady Thatcher’s death. At this time we should have prayerful concern for the bereaved family and deplore the idea of folk celebrating that Mrs Thatcher has died. She was a woman of principle who thought she was doing what was best for her country. Many hated […]
REVIEW: Reformed Thought: Selected Writings of William Young
By Roy Mohon Reformed Thought: Selected Writings of William Young Edited by Joel R. Beeke and Ray B. Lanning Reformation Heritage Books; 430 pages; $27; ISBN 978-1-60178-159-8 www.alibris.co.uk currently £22.67 Young maintained a long, robust defence of Reformed thought. Paul Helm, writer of the Introduction comments of Young’s writings that “they reveal the depth of […]
REVIEW: Keeping the Heart by John Flavel
By Roy Mohon Title: Keeping the Heart Author: John Flavel Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Publications: 2965, Leonard St., NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525. Date: 1998. 170 pages, Hardback, Priced at $20. ISBN 978-1-57358-077-9 If you were suffering from a disease and your doctor placed in your hands a book of instructions, which if followed would […]
Apocalypto and the Bible
By Roy Mohon Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto will introduce cinema audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to the ancient apostasy that flourished after the global flood. I am not suggesting that Gibson is aware of this. He has made a violent and gory movie about the Mayans of Central America, including their cutting hearts […]