Category: Practical Truths by W T Turpin
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7 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. “Lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot.”
That we are passing through times full of moment, it were vain to deny; and to assert that this day is not one of sorrow and sadness to any heart that is true to Christ, and enters ever so feebly into that which now interests Him on earth, were insensibility…
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6 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. The Peculiarity of Our Calling
A great principle, of God, which runs through all dispensations and times, is the very distinct way in which the eye and hope of the saint is transferred from all here to what is in God Himself, as soon as a condition of things presents itself in this world with…
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5 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. “At His feet”
We find Mary at the feet of Jesus on three different occasions in her history, each one full of the deepest comfort and instruction. Let us look a little at them in their order. That which stands first in moral order, is found in Luke 10. “Now it came to pass,…
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4 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. Reality
Judges 7:1-8. It is an immense comfort to meet with reality in this world, where everything is so confused, and there are so many mixed motives at work. God looks for reality. Nothing less suits His mind, or meets His thoughts. In the scripture which heads this page there are…
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3 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. The Wilderness — The Land, the Lessons of Each
Deuteronomy 8:1-9; 11:10-12; 26:1-11. You will find two very different experiences recorded in chapters 8 and 11 of this book. Chapter 8 sets before us the wilderness and its lessons. If I think of it as the place where every Christian is, though it is true also he belongs to heaven (seated…
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2 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. Devotedness
2 Samuel 23:13-17. The present condition of things around us is bewildering and embarrassing in the extreme. It is a day of poverty and weakness. Boasting or assumption ill becomes those who have but “a little strength.” One has said, “If I look within I am miserable; if I look…
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1 Some Works of Walter Thomas Turpin. Practical Truths. “Waiting.”
There is a great difference in the way the above subject is looked at by the blessed Lord in Luke 12 and John 16. Both these conditions of heart and soul, namely, the one enjoined in Luke and that enjoined in John, ought to be found in the saints at this present time.…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 