The Church

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… and it is equally blessed when the saints who are hidden away in the world hear of what the Lord has done for his church, and themselves resolve …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… Nonconformists to row against it; and I rejoice to know that the church and congregation worshipping in this magnificent temple have for a minister a man who is …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… In the congregation of the dead all differences of rank will be obliterated, they ought not now to be obstructions to united instructions. Verse 3. My mouth shall …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… To rejoice with the world is to forget the church. 2. To love the church we must prefer her above everything. 3. To serve the church we must …

Psalm 92

Psalm 92

… wept for joy in the church to hear that pleasing melody. And Beza confesses, that at his first entrance into the congregation, and hearing them sing Ps 91 …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… I stood up, and I cried in the congregation" Job 30:28. 2. Though God hear prayer only as prayer offered in Christ, not because very fervent; yet …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

… One who was debarred the holy company of the pilgrims, and the devout worship of the congregation, would find in this Psalm fit expression for his mournful spirit …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… I charge you to spurn, with the utmost indignation, the so-called "absolution" by a so-called "priest," whether of the Church of England or the Church of …

Psalm 27

Psalm 27

… Every particular church and congregation under one pastor, their meeting is the church of God, a several church independent. Richard Sibbes. Verse 4. To behold the beauty of …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… Composers of tunes for the congregation should see to it that their airs are cheerful; we need not so much noise, as joyful noise. God is to be …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… Picture a church growing, as some churches do grow, without any light from heaven, a cavern full of strange birds and blanched vegetation. What a terrible place for …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… Picture a church growing, as some churches do grow, without any light from heaven, a cavern full of strange birds and blanched vegetation. What a terrible place for …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… Jesus bestows nothing inferior or of secondary value upon his beloved church. In imparted and imputed righteousness the church is divinely arrayed. Happy those who are members of …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Professors all around him are plague smitten, the church is wasted, the very life of religion decays, but in the same place and time, in fellowship with God …

Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace

… If he stood in the place and stead of his Church, then he made atonement for his Church, and the whole Church will be saved. We believe that …

John Ploughman's Talk

… The fact is, the worst wheel of the cart creaks most, and one fool makes many, and thus many a congregation is set at ears with a good …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… The false church hath usually the advantage of worldly power and external glory; and the true church is known by the Divine power, gifts and graces, and the …

The Head of the Church

Colossians 1:18

… There is but one Church above, beneath. Time creates no separation—the Church is always one—one Church of the Apostles, one Church of the Reformers, one Church …

Additions to the Church

… Certain people are always talking about the "early Church," and very strange notions they seem to have of the aforesaid early Church. Their early Church was very different …

A Glorious Church

Ephesians 5:25-27

… As yet I have never seen anything but one little lake—this Church—the Church of God in England. The Church of God in the world—what is …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… Take each member of the Church individually, he is a child. Take us altogether, we make up the mother, the Church. The Church of Rome professes to be …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers (Continued)

I do not think that, in the course of the next twenty years, you, as a church, will have such a choice of pastors as you have had …

The Lord's Eternal Rest

Psalm 132:14

… First, then, let us think of GOD FINDING REST IN HIS CHURCH. He does this, in the first place, because in His Church all the three Divine Persons …

Beholding God's Church

Psalm 48:12-14

… Next to that subject is the Church. And though I would by no means ever urge you to think of the Church as, for a moment, to put …

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church

Isaiah 52:12

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church A Sermon (No. 230) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 26th, 1858, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall …

The Tabernacle of the Most High

Ephesians 2:22

… If you defile yourself you defile the church, for your sin if you be a church member is the church’s sin. The defilement of one stone in …

The Church As She Should Be

Solomon 6:4

… Neither Ritualists, who idolise their church, nor sceptics, who vilify all churches, have any such knowledge of the true spiritual church of Jesus Christ as to be entitled …

Prayer for the Church

Daniel 9:17

… People try to get a visible form of that one Church, but I believe that is utterly impossible. The Church of Rome claims to be that one Church …

Joining the Church

2 Corinthians 8:5

… Every Church member, too, is to try to give himself to the Church in the sense of doing his share in all Church work. Shame on the Church …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… that the world may believe that You have sent Me." There is no Church happiness where there is not Church unity. Let a Church be disaffected and divided …

The Best War Cry

Numbers 23:21

… What then? Are we dismayed? By no means, for that same God who was in the midst of the Church in the wilderness is in the Church of …

The Best Donation

2 Corinthians 8:5

… If you belong to Christ, you should belong to Christ's Church. You already owe something to the Church. By its means, the preaching of the Gospel has …

The Church of God and the Truth of God

1 Timothy 3:15

… The two things are "the Church of the living God"and "the Truth "The relationship that exists between them is that "the Church of the living God"\s …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… If there be but a holy seed in the church, the church will live; and it is astonishing how the church will live under a thousand errors, if …

The Lost Silver Piece

Luke 15:8-10

… It, I doubt not, represents the work of the Holy Spirit, working, through the church, for the lost but precious souls of men. The church is that woman …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… Though the invisible Church of God is built up by conversions, the outward Church is only built up as men and women associate together in the holy society …

Psalm 48

Psalm 48

… God is a refuge in his church. The church is a city of refuge, but the refuge is not in its church, but its God. (a) For sinners …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… Our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Head of the Church, is always actively engaged for the Church’s good. Through him the Spirit of God constantly descends upon …

Broad Rivers And Streams

Isaiah 33:20-23

… And you, my beloved Friends, who are really in the Church of Christ—mark, you may be in our Church, and not in the Church of Christ—you …

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… The one Church of God—of what is it composed, then? Is it composed of the Church of England, the Congregational Union, the Wesleyan Conference and the Baptist …