Warren Peel - Gentle Reformation

Remember your Leaders

March 17, 2023

On 4 March our congregation lost the man who had pastored the church for 35 years before me. I want to share the main points of the two messages I preached the day after his death.

Day of Judgment

He comes to judge the earth

February 17, 2023

The Bible tells us about an event that causes the heavens to be glad and the earth to rejoice. What is it?

Providence

On Eagles' Wings

January 20, 2023

Sometimes the Lord in his wisdom pushes us out of our nest and we drop like a stone. It seems unbelievably cruel, but he knows what he is doing and is ready to help...

heart

Following up on a Spiritual MRI of the Heart

December 16, 2022

A month ago I wrote about how to carry out a spiritual MRI of our hearts. Let’s assume you’ve done that and you now have the results. Now what? The answer is not some esoteric secret available only to an initiated few. It’s the ABC of Christian living.

heart

A Spiritual MRI of the Heart

November 18, 2022

In Proverbs 4.23 Solomon warns his son, ‘Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.’ He goes on to give admonitions about the mouth, the eyes and the feet (vv24-27), but it is the heart that must be guarded above all else. Why? And how?

Queen Elizabeth

Jesus Christ, King of kings

September 16, 2022

As we in reflect on the passing of Queen Elizabeth, we want to lift our eyes to the throne room of the universe to see the King of kings.

The Light of Christian Separation

August 19, 2022

This article appears in the July edition of Tabletalk [https://tabletalkmagazine.com/] magazine. According to a 2015 article in the MIT technology review, a single candle flame can be seen with the naked

Covenanters

For Christ's Crown and Covenant

June 17, 2022

Covenant renewal is an opportunity to nail our colours to the mast, both confessing our sins as a church and pledging our loyalty and love to our covenant Lord.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

May 20, 2022

What we have here in Exodus 18 is the beginnings of a worldwide movement that will transcend generations, culture, race, language, politics and nationhood.

manna

‘See! The Lord has given you the...’

April 15, 2022

This title is the beginning of a verse from the Bible. How do you think it continues? What word would you guess comes next?

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

March 18, 2022

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse remind us of some basic truths in a vivid way that we desperately need to be reminded of and cling to in faith in these troubling times.

Providence

The Curious Ways of God

February 18, 2022

How often in Scripture and in history does the Lord act in a surprising, unexpected way? His ways are not our ways, and that is not because God is being unpredictable in a random or arbitrary way, but because he is so infinitely greater and wiser than us.

Church

Faction Friendships

January 21, 2022

Too many Christians, on both sides of the controversies occasioned by covid, have retreated into their own tribe, making someone’s view of covid, lockdowns or facemasks the shibboleth of orthodoxy.

Christmas

O Little Town of Bethlehem

December 17, 2021

Why was Jesus born in Bethlehem? One answer is because it was prophesied in Micah 5.2 and Scripture had to be fulfilled. This just puts the question one stage further back though. Why did God ordain that his Son would be born in Bethlehem?

The Life we Cannot Live

November 19, 2021

‘So thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.’ J. Gresham Machen

revival

The Week Coleraine Stood Still

October 16, 2021

On Tuesday 7 June, 1859, the town of Coleraine was visited by a supernatural phenomenon. It didn’t involve UFOs or little green men or monsters from outer space. It was something far more amazing that affected many thousands of the people who lived in our town at that time.

Greek

Why Kiss your Bride through a Veil?

September 17, 2021

Why do we insist that those training to be ministers of the Word learn Greek and Hebrew? Is it just tradition? Or a sadistic desire to inflict the same pain that previous generations of ministers had to go through?

Providence

Holding on to the 'Things Revealed'

July 16, 2021

There are many things that God has revealed that are not secret, and we are meant to think about these things—to understand them, believe them and live by them as we cling to them daily.

A Desperately Sick Baby and the Secret Will of God

May 21, 2021

Three years ago almost to the day, on 18 May 2018, I posted an article [https://gentlereformation.com/2018/05/18/desperately-ill-babies-and-the-secret-plan-of-god/] with the same title as this one about a baby in

Isaiah 40:12-26

Our Cosmic Creator

April 16, 2021

Last Lord's Day evening I was preaching on Isaiah 40.12-26. In the course of the sermon I was speaking about two verses that are parallel in the symmetry of the passage, verses

Temptation

The Devil's Playbook

March 19, 2021

Just imagine the Devil had a playbook – that he had written down all his tactics and strategies for tempting Christians. And imagine you had the chance to get hold of it. Wouldn’t that be very useful?

Church

Discipleship Together

February 19, 2021

Often it's not until something is taken away that we realise how significant it is. Hopefully we will all treasure much more the ability to interact freely and face to face with our brothers and sisters when that privilege is fully restored.

Providence

God Means it for Good

January 15, 2021

We may not always see God’s purpose as clearly as Joseph did, with or without hindsight, but his example helps us believe that whether we can see it or not, God is in control and is working out his perfect plan.

Mary's Visit to Elizabeth

December 18, 2020

There are some parts of the Christmas story that easily get overlooked, aren’t there? And Mary’s visit to Elizabeth (Lk 1.39-45), sandwiched as it is between the annunciation to Mary

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The Gospel is for Christians Too!

November 20, 2020

If your pastor announced that he was going to begin a ten-week series of sermons on the gospel, how would you react? Would you say to yourself, ‘Under no circumstances can I afford