The Church

The Form of Godliness Without the Power

2 Timothy 3:5

… They also associate together in Church fellowship for purposes of mutual help and discipline. This is a very proper form—full of blessing both to the Church and …

Morning, August 18

Je 51:51

… To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain …

Evening, January 7

Song 4:12

… The church is the exclusive portion of her Lord; none else may claim a partnership, or pretend to share her love. Jesus, thy church delights to have it …

Evening, December 5

Zec 1:20

… There were four horns; for the church is attacked from all quarters. Well might the prophet have felt dismayed; but on a sudden there appeared before him four …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… Soul-trouble experienced in our own heart will help us to interpret the language here employed; and church-troubles may help us also, if unhappily we have been …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… The fact of a man’s possessing Christ is all in all in the church, because in very deed Christ is all in all. All that is real …

The Christian's Great Business

Psalm 51:12-13

… Were the Spirit of God gone from her, it would be impossible for the Church to hold her ground. But the Holy Spirit abiding in the Church is …

Evening, July 16

Ps 102:13-14

… Christian man! learn to comfort thyself in God’s gracious dealing towards the church. That which is so dear to thy Master, should it not be dear above …

Evening, February 24

Zec 1:12-13

… God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: he loves her with all his infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage …

Satanic Hindrances

1 Thessalonians 2:18

… It strikes us that Satan was desirous to keep these Apostolic men from the Church of Thessalonica because the Church was young and weak and he thought that …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… Without uprightness of walk we are not fit for the imperfect church on earth, and certainly we must not hope to enter the perfect church above. Verse 2 …

The Sure Triumph Of The Crucified One

Isaiah 52:13-15

… Note how the Lord has made His Church learn the Truth of God by degrees and purified her, first of one error, and then of another. The Church …

Faith First, Confession Following

Romans 10:10

… Frequently, it is my happy lot to see a daughter come to join the Church and when I ask her if her parents are godly people, she says …

The Objective of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… In the Roman Catholic church—Roman Catholic, did I say? Why there is another church, nearer home, that is twin sister to it and is getting very much …

The Joy of Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… The joy of receiving as members of the Church these converts from the world is THE JOY OF REALIZATION and, therefore, is like the joy of harvest! Faith …

The Form and Spirit of Religion

1 Samuel 4:3

… Do you not know some old member of the church here and there? Well, you say, if anybody in the church is a hypocrite, I should say old …

Psalm 133

Psalm 133

… A church; a church united, a church bedewed of the Spirit. What a blessing for the world that there is a commanded place of blessing! Verse 3. ( first …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… To begin, then, “At evening time it shall be light.” The first illustration we take from the history of the church at large . The church at large has …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… The blessing of the church is the increase of the church. The two go together: ‘Blessing, I will bless thee, and in multiplying, I will multiply thee.’ How …

The Great Sin Of Doing Nothing

Numbers 32:23

… It is to you, professed Christians and Church members, that the text comes, "Be sure your sin will find you out." And what is that sin? It is …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… My next observation is that the history of God's people, Israel, is also, in type, a history of His Church. Truly, the sins of Israel are far …

Christ's Work No Failure

Isaiah 42:4

… I sometimes think there are more difficulties connected with the Church than with the world, for the Church is often worldly, faithless, lethargic and, I was about to …

Servus Servorum

Luke 22:27

… The particular evil at which our Lord aimed when He uttered the words of our text was the evil which is so common in the Church, even down …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… The Church not only is all fair in the eyes of her Beloved, but in one sense she always was so. “In God’s decree, her form He …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… Well, then, the Church must not make up the census paper, for she is the spouse. But He who is Head over all things to the Church, which …

An Infallible Sign Of Revival

Isaiah 2:11

… The day when the infant Church of Christ gathered in an upper room and sat there, all its members being of one heart and of one soul, and …

The Power of Christ's Presence

John 21:7

… Every Church needs to do that and every Church member, every Christian worker needs to do that. The preacher will do well to adopt another style—to study …

Psalm 20

Psalm 20

… It needs but a moment's reflection to perceive that this hymn of prayer is prophetical of our Lord Jesus, and is the cry of the ancient church …

Serving The Lord

Romans 12:11

… Yes, Brethren, had the Church in the past been faithful and were the Church in the present faithful to God and to His Christ, there is no reason …

Friendship's Guide

John 15:14

… No Church may lord it over your minds, for the Church may err, but not so Christ. "Whatever I command you," says He. He is Infallible—He will …

Our Lord's Voluntary Poverty

2 Corinthians 8:9

… THE Apostle was anxious to stir up the Corinthian Church to generosity. They were a Church of very great talents. They were an unusually gifted Church, so that …

Christ—The Power and Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 1:24

… I do not wonder that the church has outlived persecution so much as I wonder she has outlived the unfaithfulness of her professed teachers. Never was church so …

Prayer 19 — God's Unspeakable Gift

… Lord, send Thy life throughout the entire Church. Lord, visit Thy Church, restore sound doctrine, restore holy and earnest living. Take away from professors their apparent love for …

Foundation Work

1 Kings 5:17

… So it must be, next, in the building up of a Church, that a Church of God needs be founded on the everlasting Truth of God. There are …

Enduring to the End

Matthew 10:22

… For this Church’s sake, I pray you do it; for nothing can dishonor and weaken a Church so much as the falls of professors. A thousand rivers …

The Christian's Service and Honor

John 12:26

… The deacon who toils for the Church of God is serving Him, and shall be blessed in what he does. The Sunday school teacher serves God. And each …

No Quarter

1 Kings 18:40

… Christians have no right to associate themselves with any Church which errs in its teaching. If we see that gross error is rampant in a Church and we …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… That faith strengthens Christian men has been proved often in the history of the Church of God. The Church's weakness springs mainly and mostly from a want …

Spiritual Knowledge and Its Practical Results

Colossians 1:9

… FOR the Church that was at Colosse, Paul gave hearty thanks to God for many most important blessings, especially for their faith, their love and their hope. It …

Self-Delusion

Luke 13:24

… If in the first glory of the Church's sky there were wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness and darkness forever, how much more in these …