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God, the All-Seeing One
Proverbs 15:11
… That dust by sacrilegious hand was cast in the aisle of the church, or thrown into the churchyard and blown by the winds into the neighboring field. It …
SERMON • SERMON 247The Best of Masters
John 14:27
… Wherever the church is we are all bound to serve the brethren, to serve the church of Christ as we are bound to assist in a common cause …
SERMON • SERMON 710The Great White Throne
Revelation 20:11
… I stand accepted by the Church. But that great white throne is not passed yet. 1 have borne a reputable character among my fellow Christians. I have been …
SERMON • SERMON 764Our Life, Our Work, Our Change
Job 14:14
… I suppose week by week about two in this congregation die almost as regularly as I come into this pulpit. So you melt away one after the other …
SERMON • SERMON 3461The Welcome Visitor
John 11:28-32
… I shall not speak without His guarantee, for when He comes into a congregation, He calls for all His own! He speaks, and He says to all whom …
SERMON • SERMON 2677Spiritual Religion
John 6:63
… You may well smile at so ridiculous an idea, yet you know that the idea is still prevalent in the Church of Rome. The Romish priest solemnly assures …
SERMON • SERMON 2508"Beautiful Forever"
Psalm 149:4
… There was a dear man of God, an elder of this Church, who, when he came to me one Lord's-Day morning, when I was half-choked …
SERMON • SERMON 860Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified
Luke 23:48
… had listened to a faithful and earnest preacher, "I have seen a whole congregation in tears." "Alas!" said the preacher, "there is something more amazing still, for the …
SERMON • SERMON 143A Preacher from the Dead
Luke 16:31
… They sometimes go to church and chapel and elsewhere; but it does not signify much to them. One minister may contradict another, but they do not know; they …
SERMON • SERMON 3258Stumbling at the Word
1 Peter 2:8
… If He would tell me to take the sacrament, if He would bid me go to such-and-such a church so many times a day, I would …
SERMON • SERMON 2777The Queen of Sheba, a Sign
Matthew 12:42
… It may be and it often is the case that in the parish church there is nothing but Popery. Now if they went to the little Methodist chapel …
SERMON • SERMON 2915A Visit to Bethlehem
Luke 2:15
… I wish I could have many like her out of this congregation tonight. You would see how Mystery is dissolved in mercy! No flaming sword turning every way …
SERMON • SERMON 3124Real Contact With Jesus
Luke 8:46
… They are glad if they can look around and gaze at the congregation—they find in that something to interest them. But getting near to the Lord Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 129David's Dying Prayer
Psalm 72:10
… I am looking on this great congregation with a thought in my mind which agitates my spirit. Young men! young men! is there not one among you that …
SERMON • SERMON 216Confession and Absolution
Luke 18:13
… As for that matter, it is perhaps a mercy that the outward and visible sign of Popery in the Church of England has discovered to its sincere friends …
SERMON • SERMON 1126A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses
Isaiah 63:7
… If all this congregation went out today to tell of the loving kindness of the Lord towards His people, we should have such Gospel preaching throughout all London …
SERMON • SERMON 38Storming the Battlements
Jeremiah 5:10
… It is a respectable congregation, a most respectable church, the members are most of them wealthy. They say, within themselves, “We are a strong and wealthy church; there …
SERMON • SERMON 3000COME AND WELCOME
John 6:37
… Please ask all the converted ones in your congregation to pray for me, that Grace may be restored to a most unhappy soul." Well, I am sure that …
SERMON • SERMON 3177Christ Seen as God's Salvation
Luke 2:30
… Made sin for us, He cannot be in the congregation. He must be numbered with the transgressors! Behold Him dying in bodily pains not to be readily described …
SERMON • SERMON 1927Our Sympathizing High Priest
Hebrews 5:7-10
… in the midst of the congregation will I praise You." Oh what a Brother Christ is, since He, too, cried and wept and had power with God and …
SERMON • SERMON 46The Glorious Habitation
Psalm 90:1
… My hearers, what a pity it is that we have to divide our congregation, that we can not speak to you in a mass as being all Christians …
SERMON • SERMON 3469Martha and Mary
Luke 10:41-42
… They may be thinking about how arrangements may be made for the convenience of the congregation, and filled with anxiety that all may go off well, especially at …
SERMON • SERMON 3529More Room for More People
Luke 14:22
… So, too, with the Church of God, when she has done as Christ commands her, she will always feel desirous to wait upon Him as a humble servant …
SERMON • SERMON 52Free Will—A Slave
John 5:40
… once preaching that there were harps and crowns in heaven for all his congregation; and then he wound up in a most solemn manner: “My dear friends, there …
SERMON • SERMON 584A Hearer In Disguise
1 Kings 14:6
… It is rarely a week passes without a death of someone in this Church, much more in the congregation. I suppose I never did address the same assembly …
SERMON • SERMON 16Paul's First Prayer
Acts 9:11
… He will not suffer his church to be injured by its enemies, or overwhelmed by its foes; and he is not short of means for turning aside the …
SERMON • SERMON 245The Way to God
John 14:6
… You will sometimes meet with men who say, “Well, I do not go up to a church or chapel it is all ridiculous. I do not read the …
SERMON • SERMON 907Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many
Luke 2:34
… It is always a most painful deprivation to me when I am unable to preach the Gospel on the Sabbath to my beloved congregation. I earnestly pray that …
SERMON • SERMON 3119Mistakes Concerning God
Psalm 1:21
… They go to church or to chapel and they seem to think that by doing so, they have wiped off all their old scores. What if they have …
SERMON • SERMON 196A Present Religion
1 John 3:2
… I do solemnly affirm to-day, in the face of this congregation, and before Almighty God, if I were certain that I were to die like a dog …
SERMON • SERMON 2759The Pleasures of Piety
Psalm 104:34
… When I came to London, I did not fancy that there would be half such a congregation as this even on the Sabbath, much less on a weekday …
SERMON • SERMON 1640The Touch
Mark 5:30
… I have done, only I would put to the whole congregation the question, "Who has touched Christ tonight?" O that some would answer in their hearts, "I have …
SERMON • SERMON 316A Sense of Pardoned Sin
Isaiah 38:17
… One solitary sentence or so, and I will dismiss the present congregation. Have I a man here who declares that he is pardoned, and yet indulges in the …
SERMON • SERMON 3535Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin
Psalm 28:1
… God grant that we may not, by giving way here and there, pull down the bulwarks of our Church and so make the children of God to become …
SERMON • SERMON 861Broken Bones
Psalm 51:8
… Christian power of the Church which ought to be expended mainly in seeking after lost souls—there is a damage to the whole Church in the declension of …
SERMON • SERMON 3027God's Time for Comforting
Psalm 119:82
… There might be very startling discoveries made here, this very hour, if every professing Christian were compelled, by his accusing conscience, to stand up and tell the congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 3060The Good Shepherd
Psalm 23:1
… But Beloved, we must divide our congregation before we send you away and remind you that there are some of you to whom this Truth of God does …
SERMON • SERMON 3262Satan's Arrows and God's
Lamentations 3:12
… I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation …
SERMON • SERMON 3331Knowing and Believing
2 Timothy 1:12
… You remember what the fuller said, "Yes, he believed" He believed—what did he believe? He believed, "What the Church believed." And what did the Church believe? "Well …
SERMON • SERMON 3290God's Hand at Evening
Ezekiel 33:22
… evening! We are in the midst of a most gracious work in this congregation. We began with earnest prayer and we are now receiving the blessing that we …