"Steps to Personal Reformation" By Dr. Peter Hammond

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www.reformationsa.org   A great site dedicated to Restoring the Reformation in South Africa.  Not a bad idea for the rest of the world as well!

Steps to Personal Reformation “Will You not revive us again, that our people may rejoice in You?” Psalm 85:6 1. Schedule time with God in your diary. If you fail to plan then you plan to fail. If something (or someone) is important then you need to schedule time in your diary. And just as you would not miss an appointment with anyone else, be sure to honour your appointment with God.

"Christian Training of Children"- A Book for Parents and Teachers by Charles Spurgeon

"Come, you children, hearken unto me—I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Psalm 34:11

FEED MY LAMBS

The best of the church are none too good for this work. Do not think because you have other service to do that therefore you should take no interest in this form of holy work, but kindly, according to your opportunities, stand ready to help the little ones, and to cheer those whose chief calling is to attend to them. To us all this message comes: "Feed My lambs!" To the minister, and to all who have any knowledge of the things of God, the commission is given. See to it that you look after the children that are in Christ Jesus. Peter was a leader among believers, yet he must feed the lambs.

"The Super-Excellent Law OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY" By John Calvin

And Moſes called all Iſrael and ſaid vnto them. Heare O Iſrael the ordinances and Lawes which I ſet before you this day, that ye may learne them and keepe them in deede.

2  The Lord our God made a couenant with vs in Horeb.

3  The Lorde our God made not this couenant with our fathers, but with vs which are all here aliue at this day.

FOr as much as it is hard to keep men in ſubiectió to GOD: therefore after he had chosen him a people, he vouchsafed to rule them, not for once and away, {176:B} but even so long time till they ought to have been well inured [used, accustomed] to his yoke. And after the same manner doth he deal daily with his Church. One word ought to be enough to make us understand the truth of our God. But forasmuch as we believe not so speedily as were requisite: & when we have begun, we start away again: and finally forget the things that he had taught us: therefore he thinketh it not enough to have told us once what is needful for our salvation, but he doth also put us oft in mind of it, & printeth it in our hearts as much as is possible.

"The School of Suffering" By John Newton

I suppose you are still in the 'school of the cross', learning the happy are of extracting 'real good' out of 'seeming evil', and to grow tall by stooping. The flesh is a sad untoward dunce in this school; but grace makes the spirit willing to learn by suffering; yes, it cares not what it endures, so that sin may be mortified, and a conformity to the image of Jesus be increased. Surely, when we see the most and the best of the Lord's children so often in heaviness, and when we consider how much He loves them, and what He has done and prepared for them, we may take it for granted that there is a need-be for their sufferings. For it would be easy to His power, and not a thousandth part of what His love intends to do for them should He make their whole life here, from the hour of their conversion to their death, a continued course of satisfaction and comfort, without anything to distress them from within or without. But were it so, would we not miss many advantages?