Sword & Trowel 2019: Issue 1
TABERNACLE DEAF
FELLOWSHIP WINTER RETREAT
Over 50 deaf and hearing adults and children travelled to Hebron Hall, Dinas Powys, Wales for the Tabernacle Deaf Winter Retreat last-
ing from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd February 2019. We had meetings each day. A Deaf brother led an evangelistic item series on the subject ‘The Gospel Ship’, we had a daily serialised biography of the missionary David Brainerd, and some of the Deaf ladies gave their testimo- nies. The evenings saw various topics of interest such as ‘Theophany: What
times, the steadfastness of the be- liever’s faith in God is all the more conspicuous, and the gates of hell do not prevail.
4THE TRIUMPH OF There is yet another way in which
THE WORD TODAY
the gates of hell fail to conquer, and the kingdom of God is seen to be supreme. It is in an evil day that God’s Word is most demonstrated to be right and true. Before the 1950s, when Christian ethics prevailed even among unbelievers, most people
is it?’, ‘The Unpardonable Sin’, and ‘His- tory of the Metropolitan Tabernacle’. We praise the Lord for a week of battery recharging for some and spiritual awak- ening for others.
A third Deaf Holiday Bible Club for children was held at the Tabernacle for three days in the Easter holidays with the theme – History and the Bible, including a visit to the British Museum.
could pride themselves (however un- realistically) in being decent, moral, respectable and upright. The biblical doctrine of depravity was widely rejected and scorned. But then the inner desire to abandon moral stand- ards took control, emerging in the 1960s campaign for the permissive society. Then, as morality and refi ne- ment collapsed, so the doctrines of the Fall, and human enslavement to sin became so very obviously true. The biblical analysis of man and of his nature is now irrefutable. Our faith is all the more confi rmed and the Bible embarrassingly right even to the unsaved.
Triumphs of the Church in an Atheistic Age page 29
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