The Church

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… Spurgeon, pick out a dozen of the happiest people that you know," ten of them would be blind people! We have some dear Friends, members of this Church …

The Call of 'Today'

Hebrews 3:7

… There was an aged man who meant to devote all his substance to the Church of God, but he put it off and the thing was never done …

The Soul's Great Crisis

Romans 7:8

… Whitfield, I am so glad, for Jesus Christ came to seek and save that which was lost." I could preach all night if I had a congregation that …

The Two Gatherings

Psalm 50:5

… believe the special purpose of Christ's Atonement was the redemption of His Church, yet we know that His Sacrifice was Infinite in value and, therefore, we set …

Why the Gospel Is Hidden

2 Corinthians 4:3

… You may be a subscriber to the funds of the church, you may attend the service of the church, you may even be an ardent admirer of the …

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… The church of Corinth was a church of all the talents—it was not, however, a church so much of all the Graces, and so it was a …

Our Lord's Heroic Endurance

Hebrews 12:3

… No acclamations awaited Him who spoke as never man spoke, but the whole congregation gnashed upon Him with their teeth! And had it not been for His supernatural …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… If we do not as a Church and a congregation, if we do not as individuals, always give God the glory, it is utterly impossible that God should …

A Divine Challenge!

Exodus 8:1

… not go! This, we pray, is our great hope when we have a congregation before us—not a hope that they will be willing, that they will be …

An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents

Proverbs 6:20-23

… me on the platform—it might have been any of you in the congregation. Who can tell who will go this week? Probably some one or other of …

High Doctrine

… O Lord, if thou shouldst cease to send forth the streams of thy grace, thy glorious Church, with all her beauty, must be as a fading flower; all …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… Some dear sweet souls—the very pick of this Church—were taken up to Heaven. It may be my lot, it may be your lot, dear Brother or …

Presumptuous Sins

Psalm 19:13

… It would be presumption for any man to climb to the top of the spire of a church, and stand upon his head. “Well, but he might come …

Constancy And Inconstancy—a Contrast

Hosea 6:3

… I fear we get a sad number of this sort into Church membership. Young people, impressed early when they have not known temptation, because they have not gone …

The Memory Of Christ's Love

Solomon 1:4

… I do not like to hear Christian people speak ill of one another— and I do not like to hear Christian people speak ill of the Church. If …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… At the very entrance into the Church, in the very act of Baptism, he declares that he cannot live as he once did, for he is dead! He …

Seeing Jesus

John 14:19

… Indeed, it needs a great deal of faith to see Jesus when things are sluggish in the Church, when there are ministers who do not seem to care …

Do Not Sin Against the Child

Genesis 42:22

… I want the Church of God, and especially this Church, to attend carefully to the next few remarks. When teachers and others are earnest about the conversion of …

Preaching Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23

… I recollect a young man going into a pulpit to address a small congregation, and he began by saying that he hoped they would pardon his youth and …

God's Glorious and Everlasting Name

Isaiah 63:12

… Such cases, in which the work is evidently God's, seem to me like miracles of mercy! Last Wednesday, when seeing those who came to join the Church …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… Oh that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! Let them exalt Him also in the congregation …

A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer

Mark 10:51

… I must, however, confess that I am most fervent in prayer when I pray for this congregation, and that because I have the most vivid thought of this …

Prayer Meetings

Acts 1:14

… But prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him. The walls of the prison were very thick, but prayer was made without ceasing. The …

How to Read the Bible

1 Timothy 4:13

… There used to be a very stupid conceit in some sections of the Church, that if a minister read extensively, he would only give forth stale truth, or …

A Marvelous Change

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

… If any persons live in lust and uncleanness, God will not permit them to defile His true Church on earth, or to profane His Temple above. It is …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… I fear that there are even some in this congregation who are living just as if there were no God at all. If there really were no God …

A Message From God

Judges 3:20

… They talk, as I read of one the other day, who said that when he preached to sinners he did not like to look the congregation in the …

The People's Christ

Psalm 89:19

… his congregation was made up of the lower orders—the masses—the multitude. “The common people heard him gladly;” and his doctrine was one which did not allow …

The Single-handed Conquest

Isaiah 63:3

… So our blessed Lord, albeit He could have crushed the enemies of His Church like moths beneath His finger, had enough to do to overcome them in the …

Quiet Musing!

Psalm 39:3

… fragments of time to be alone? I should not have a cold-hearted congregation—I should not have need to stir you up to liberality in giving, or …

Covenant Blessings

Psalm 111:5

… You may be of any church in the world, or of no church, and yet be one of God's elect. Nor can you know it even by …

Pricked in Their Heart

Acts 2:36-37

… We must not forget, also, that there had been a long season of earnest, united, believing prayer on the part of the whole church. Peter was not alone …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… But now I shall pass on to take these words and use them as THE VOICE OF AN ANXIOUS CHURCH. The true Church of God may well pray …

Idolatry Condemned

1 John 5:21

… I think he addressed himself to the whole body of Believers to whom he was writing and, through them, that he addressed the whole Church of Christ when …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… He said that his willing soul would stay in such a frame as this and I suspect that there were a great many more in the congregation who …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… By such equivocations multitudes of men and women deceive themselves; and it is unhappily the custom of many a preacher to address his congregation as if they were …

A Call To Worship

Zechariah 8:21

… I will consider the congregation at the Tabernacle and pray that it may gently melt into the Church. I will pray for the strangers who fill the aisles …

Even Now

John 11:22

… But I can, "even now," say with confidence— "Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be sa …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… It seemed then as if the Church of Christ had given up seeking the lost—but God has raised up one and another for the purpose of preaching …

Seeking Richly Rewarded

Psalm 34:10

… I seek His Glory and I shall not need any good thing." I think someone in the congregation might say to me, "Look at the martyrs. Did not …