The Hillside Messenger
Newsletter Article for the December edition of The Hillside Messenger Advent as Preparation for Christmas The Rev. Charles Wesley, priest and hymn writer, described the Lord Jesus Christ’s Second Advent in these words: Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for our salvation slain; Thousand thousand saints Read more…
Romans 5 and 6: Living the Christian Life In this article, I shall direct our attention to the results of believing in the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, as they apply to Christians, and to the new way in which Christians should live because of their Read more…
Romans 4 – The faith that leads to salvation In last month’s issue of The Hillside Messenger, I wrote about St. Paul’s exposition of the Gospel in Romans 3, in which he shows how Scripture testifies to God’s diagnosis of all people as guilty of sin, and subject to Read more…
Newsletter Article for the September edition of The Hillside Messenger Romans 3: “God justifies the sinner who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ” In the first and second chapters of his Epistle to the Romans, St. Paul has shown that all people, whether they are Jews or Gentiles, fall under Read more…
Romans 2 – “Even the religious person has no excuse” From a reading of my article on the first chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, it is clear that all people are guilty of sin and by reason of this are subject to God’s judgment. But when St. Read more…
“The Gospel as presented by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans” – Chapter 1 The Gospel according to St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is the theme of this series of expositions that I shall now undertake. Someone may ask why such a study is necessary. Whereas the Read more…
Newsletter article for the June edition of The Hillside Messenger “Led by the Holy Spirit” A hallmark of being children of God is that we are led by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:14), who directs and empowers us to mortify in our lives everything that rebels against God’s authority Read more…
Article for the May edition of The Hillside Messenger “The difference Easter has made” What difference has the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on the first Easter Day made to the lives of Christians? Without Christ’s resurrection, as St. Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 15, there is no Read more…
“Living a life conformed to Christ’s life” On this spiritual journey that is Lent, we look forward to Easter, and to the victory of Christ’s resurrection in our lives. For any form of self-discipline that we exercise in Lent has as its purpose our spiritual training, that we may Read more…
Article for the March edition of The Hillside Messenger “Drawing closer to God through Lent” In our Lord’s farewell discourses to his disciples as recorded in the Gospel according to St. John, St. Thomas asks the question (John 14:5), “ Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and Read more…