'Spurgeon's Tabernacle'
Founded c1650. Pastored by C H Spurgeon 1854-1892.
A large congregation proclaiming the Gospel of Christ
and the doctrines of grace.
Sunday 29th January, 2012, 11am and 6.30pm: Dr Peter Masters
London Reformed Baptist Seminary
Details of Saturday lecture days and Reading List for 2011/12 are now posted.
ONLINE SEMINARY
Overseas pastors and aspiring preachers wishing to follow the course from overseas may now apply either as auditors or full course members (including assignments).
Urgent Living
Sermon by Dr Peter Masters from 1 Corinthians 7.29-31 on 22 January
Our lives are ever running lower on time to love and serve the Lord. We cannot make earthly matters, including our home, our chief priority in favour of the cause of Christ and of souls. Are we living too much for things that are doomed to pass away?
Sunday Morning Teaching
Mutual Debts in Marriage
Sermon by Dr Peter Masters from 1 Corinithians 7.3 on 15 January
A key word has slipped out of some modern translations - the marital debt of benevolence, meaning goodwill and kind benefits. Here are seven debts each has to the other in Christian marriage, a sevenfold bond and blessing to the crowning earthly friendship of life's journey, are we paying what is 'due'?
Sunday Morning Teaching
The After-Death Experience
Sermon by Dr Peter Masters from Revelation 21.10 on 22 January
Christ's teaching on Heaven and future glory constitutes the only hope for eternal souls. Here is the promised future realm: its holiness, beauty and marvels. Here too are its people and their privileges. Here are the qualifications for admission and the terrors of exclusion. Are we ready?
Sunday Evening Evangelistic
God appeals to Reason
Sermon by Dr Peter Masters from Isaiah 30.21 on 15 January
Before conversion, the claims of God mean nothing to us, but when God's Word speaks to our hearts, the challenge becomes inescapable. Self-searching begins, and the kindness of God's forgiving love is grasped as never before. Here is God's reasoning with souls.
Sunday Evening Evangelistic
SPIRITUAL LESSONS FROM ELIJAH
(1 Kings 17)
Pastoral applications to church and personal life today drawn from extraordinary events: Ahab's confrontation by Elijah due to Baal worship; the drought and famine; Elijah sustained by ravens; sent to Zarephath to miraculously provide for a Phoenician widow; and the death and raising of her son.
A message preached by Dr Masters on 23 November (Wed Bible Study).
SPIRITUAL LESSONS FROM MOUNT CARMEL (1 Kings 18)
The purposes and message of the momentous event when Elijah confronted 400 prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel: they failing to call down fire on their sacrifice, and his own spectacular endorsement; the coming of torrential rain, ending famine; and the prophet's return to Jezreel.
A message preached by Dr Masters on 30 November (Wed Bible Study).
Should Christians Drink?
by Peter Masters
What are the biblical arguments which have convinced the majority of Bible believers over the last two centuries that the Lord wants His people to abstain? All who seek to honour Christ will want to consider the case set out in this booklet for abstinence.
32 pages, booklet.
Available from Tabernacle Bookshop
Elijah's Vindication at Horeb
Sermon by Dr Peter Masters from 1 Kings 19 on 7 December
The spiritual meaning behind Elijah's withdrawal (not desertion!) from Jezebel's murderous threats, his deep dismay and despondency at the seeming failure of Carmel events to move hardened Israelites, and his pilgrimage to Sinai seeking light. God's gracious treatment of His faithful prophet, and his new commission.
Bible Study, Wednesday 7 December