Category: Writings by John Thomas Mawson

  • Preparations, by John Thomas Mawson,

    I stayed in the home of a bride-to-be. It was an interesting experience, and not interesting only, but instructive. She was a capable girl and carried out all her house duties as she had always done, but it was evident that the coming looked-for day filled her thoughts, and all…

  • Preach the Word, by John Thomas Mawson,

    Those servants of the Lord are wise and will have the truest success in their service who take their instructions from the Word of God. In that Word we are told “the servant of the Lord must not strive” but “PREACH THE WORD.” It is always a mistake and often…

  • Preach the Risen Christ, by John Thomas Mawson,

    “Preach Jesus and the resurrection;” proclaim a risen, triumphant Christ. Tell the people that God has put His seal upon the great work of Calvary by raising the Workman from the dead; tell them that the price is paid and is enough, that Satan’s power has been annulled, that death…

  • “Praising and Blessing God”, by John Thomas Mawson,

    “Behold thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak … because thou believest not my words” (Luke 1:20). “And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God” (Luke 24:52-53). The Gospel of Luke commences with a dumb…

  • Practical Godliness, by John Thomas Mawson,

    We gather from correspondence with friends in various parts that there is an awakening as to the great need of more practical godliness in the lives of Christians, and much exercise that so little of it is seen as a result of all the truth that is held theoretically. If…

  • “Perilous Times”, by John Thomas Mawson,

    We have published the foregoing paper, “The Widening Breach,” in the hope that it may arouse many of our fellow-Christians, who, because they are ignorant of the determined and deliberate abandonment of the truth on the part of many of the most prominent religious leaders, rest secure in the thought…

  • Playing the Man, by John Thomas Mawson,

    I have received a letter from a young Christian who is studying in a Divinity school His purpose is to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ, but there sounds in his letter a note of discouragement. He does not find his path an easy one, and the indifference to…

  • Peace in the Lord, by John Thomas Mawson,

    “These things I have spoken unto you that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) If we are to have this peace in the Lord we must know what the things are…

  • Papers on Prophecy, by John Thomas Mawson,

    “The King of the North” and Russia The following question has been sent to us, “What is it that leads expositors and prophetic lecturers to identify ‘the King of the North’ especially with a Russian ruler? In what passage of Scripture is the matter mentioned”? In answer to this and…

  • The Outlook, by John Thomas Mawson,

    “The rulers of the darkness of this world.” We believe there is more in the present upheaval in the world than the wickedness and ambition of godless men. Spiritual powers—the principalities and powers in the heavenly places that rule this world’s darkness (Ephesians 6:12) are working behind the scenes in…

  • Our Standing and Estate, by John Thomas Mawson,

    When His Majesty the King bestows his birthday honours he must consider not only the merits of those who are to receive them, but whether they will be able to maintain the new dignity that he wishes to give them. For instance, he would not raise a scavenger to the…

  • Our Resources, by John Thomas Mawson,

    Notes of a Bible Reading in Brisbane on John 14 I am sure that every one of us here would like to give pleasure to the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ; we should like to be both in our individual and collective life what He desires us to be. The…

  • Our Perfect Pattern, by John Thomas Mawson,

    Notes of an Address at High Leigh, 1924, on John 8:3-5, 12-15, 34-35; 14:1; Colossians 3:12-17 We are glad to think of that glorious hour of which Ephesians 5:25-27 speaks, when our Lord will present to Himself His church which He loves and for which He gave Himself — a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle…

  • Our Great Leader, by John Thomas Mawson,

    John Bunyan did not give the hero of his dream much fellowship on his pilgrimage to the Celestial City. His only companions were Faithful who suffered martyrdom in Vanity Fair, and Hopeful who crossed the river with him, and shared in the welcome he received when the bells of the…

  • Our Great Hope, by John Thomas Mawson,

    The First and Last Words from the Lord in the Glory The enraptured silence of the disciples of the Lord, as the cloud of glory carried Him out of their sight, was broken by the voice of two men in white apparel, saying, “This same Jesus, which is taken from…

  • Our God, Articles 1 & 2, by John Thomas Mawson,

    Article 1 There is not one of us who knows his own frailty who would care to live a single day without God. We need Him every hour, even though we often forget Him. He has not made us to be independent of Him. We are not equal to the…

  • “Our Fellowship”, by John Thomas Mawson,

    It is usual for people of the world who are ambitious to make great efforts to enter into circles of society higher than those to which they have been used. To be familiar with notable people, or with some aristocratic family, or better still, to be presented at Court, or…

  • Our Daily Lives, by John Thomas Mawson,

    It is a magnificent book, this Epistle to the Hebrews, and great and wonderful are the things it unfolds for us and in language suited to their greatness. And the climax is surely reached when the writer exults in the assembled glories to which we are now brought in contrast…

  • Our Daily Life, by John Thomas Mawson,

    We were asked recently if we could account for the lack of growth on the part of so many Christians who seem both unworldly and estimable. Why don’t they develop in the knowledge of the deep things of God and become enthusiastic in the goings forth of the truth. Why…

  • Our Commission, by John Thomas Mawson,

    A word to those who preach the Gospel at home and abroad “Wist ye not that I must be about MY FATHER’S BUSINESS?” (Luke 2:49).“Thus it is written, and thus it BEHOVED CHRIST TO SUFFER, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of…