The Bible

The Great Cross-bearer and His Followers

Mark 15:20

… Holy Scripture, by its example, teaches us great reticence about the sufferings of Jesus. Some of the medieval writers and certain good people who write devotional books are …

A Prayer for Revival

Psalm 85:6

… We will read two passages of Scripture this evening, both of which will have a bearing upon the subject we are afterwards to consider from our text. Let …

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… read in the synagogue at Nazareth and then said, "This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears." One of the worst calamities that can happen to anyone …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… Even if you would be infallible and believe every Truth of God as it is taught in Scripture in the most correct manner, your belief would not save …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… Observe that this Scripture says not, "I know the thoughts that I have thought toward you." That would be a happy remembrance, for the thoughts of God concerning …

Fencing the Table

1 Corinthians 11:28

… think that in this matter they have not acted according to the Word of God. We ourselves retain them for this reason only, because we believe that our …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… Ah, futile fancy! The expression where it is once used in Scripture implies nothing of the kind—it has no such meaning as some attach to it, for …

The Church's Probation

Psalm 66:10

… Sometimes when you are reading a passage of Scripture, you say, "Ah, yes, yes; it must mean that!" You pray over it. "Yes, it must mean that! But …

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… My Friend over yonder, you do not often hear a minister preach the Word of God and, therefore, now that I have you here, let me deal very …

The Triumph Of Christianity

Psalm 22:27

… Let us turn to Scripture and read a few of its utterances which appear to us full of hope for the future. David shall be our first witness …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… The most awful word I sometimes think in the whole Bible is that shriek of the lost. “Rocks, hide us! mountains, fall upon us, and hide us from …

The Spirit and the Wind

John 3:8

… One day the Word of God comes like a hammer and a fire—at another time it drops like the gentle dew from Heaven upon the parched heart …

Beware of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:2

… It is the very least thing that can be expected of us to believe God, for he cannot lie, and if we refuse credence to the word of …

The Light of the World

Matthew 5:14

… It is the great object of our lives to make known the Gospel of Christ in every place, holding forth the Word of God in meekness, instructing those …

Psalm 150

Psalm 150

… Praise him according to his excellent greatness , or, as the words may bear, "according to his muchness of greatness"; for when the Scripture saith, "God is great", this …

A Call For Revival

Solomon 7:11-13

… We hear of very few results from the sacred sowing of the Word of God. Here and there the Church, like Ruth, gathers an ear—a very precious …

Sychar's Sinner Saved

John 4:10

… She had broken through the laws of decorum and of the Word of God, so away she goes and says to the men, "Come, see a Man who …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Isaiah 1. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK"—176, 459, 489.

Believers Sent by Christ, As Christ Is Sent By the Father

John 17:18

… If we have more knowledge of Scripture or larger gifts of utterance, accept us as your fellow servants whose talents are cheerfully employed for your sakes! But if …

"Better Than Wine"

Solomon 1:2

… I suppose in the earlier ages when the Word of God was written, it would hardly have been conceivable that there could have existed on the face of …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… It is nothing less than what the Bible calls it; it is full of idols, filthy rag, bone, and rubbish worship of the most abominable kind. I have …

Sad Fasts Changed To Glad Feasts

Zechariah 8:19

… But as "no prophesy of Scripture is of any private interpretation," so the message to the Jews also bears a message for us! Let us seek to learn …

Mongrel Religion

2 Kings 17:41

… This man was a Bethelite, one who worshipped God under the symbol of an ox, which the Scripture calls a calf. He was a very slight improvement upon …

False Justification and True

Job 9:20

… For the scripture says, Whoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over …

All Fulness in Christ

Colossians 1:19

… Heaven and earth shall pass away but this word of God shall never pass away. “He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved.” God has said it …

The Fullness of Christ the Treasury of the Saints

Colossians 1:19

… O accursed Unbelief, will you always pervert the Truth of God? Will you never understand this Word of God—"It pleased the Father that in Him should all …

Believing On Jesus—and Its Counterfeits

John 8:30-32

… PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—John 8:12-59.

Enquire of the Lord

Ezekiel 36:37

… PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON—Ezekiel 36:1-14;24-38. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK"—145 (PART I), 985, 968.

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Isaiah 43:2

… Find her in Scotland, and her Covenanters have to hide themselves in the midst of the mountain, and read the Word of God by the lightning flash, to …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… God perhaps, as Creator, he may consider; but the God of the Bible, the infinite Jehovah, judging righteously among the sons of men—condemning and acquitting—that God …

"Behold, He Prays"

Acts 9:11

… Did he not wear texts of Scripture between his eyes? What a pious man he was! Had he not broad borders on his garments—borders of blue? What …

Saying Versus Doing

Matthew 21:28-30

… When I am reading one of the stern passages of Scripture, I always like to pray to God to let it come right home to my heart, because …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 13:20-21

… Human nature leans in that direction, but the word of God does not, and following its unerring track we rejoice in the everlasting covenant, which will abide for …

Jehovah's Valuation of His People

Isaiah 43:3

… But if, with childlike confidence, you accept every Word of God as true, then His Word shall be to you the joy of your heart and the delight …

Amazing Grace

Isaiah 57:18

… Now, I have been, not only for the love of it, but because of my calling of preaching it, a constant reader of Holy Scripture and yet after …

Farm Laborers

… If we preach, it must be the true word of God, or nothing can come of it. More than that, all the strength that is in the laborer …

"By All Means, Save Some"

1 Corinthians 9:22

… The expression used gives great prominence to instrumentality and this is the use and habit of Scripture. There is not much danger, just now, of exaggerating the power …

A Plain Man's Sermon

Leviticus 22:21

… But hear this Word of God—"It must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it." If we trust Christ and nothing else, that …

The Headstone of the Corner

Psalm 118:22-25

… Psalm in the well-remembered words, "Why also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… How dead, I say, must they be who are not moved by the Word of God which arouses even the dead in their graves who have lain in …