The Church

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… After all, He is the very breath of the Church. Where the Spirit of God is, there is power! If the Spirit is withdrawn, then the vitality of …

Prayer 24 — "Deliver Us from Evil"

… Oh! that the Christian Church in England might begin to take upon itself its true burden. Let the Church in London especially, with its mass of poverty and …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… Thus, whatever Christ hath done, He hath wrought for the whole body of His Church. We were crucified in Him, and buried with Him (read Col. ii. 10 …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… Unless the members of God's Church do that which is pleasing in His sight, they bar the door against prosperity—they prevent the prayers of the Church …

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

… a) There will always be a church. b) That church will always be such as God can rest in. c) That church will therefore be secure on earth …

God's Glory Our Rereward

Isaiah 58:8

… THE Church of God is an army marching through an enemy's territory. She can never reckon upon a moment's peace. If she were of the world …

Sermons From Saintly Deathbeds No. 783

Genesis 49:33

… And as surely as the Church is one, she loses none of her members—as certain as it is the same Church triumphant and militant—so certain is …

Discipline in Christ's Army

Joshua 1:11

… I believe also in the invincibility of the Church which is built upon the Rock, Christ Jesus, and against which the gates of Hell shall never prevail. I …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… In the Church of Christ, wherever there is real union of heart among Believers, nationality is no hindrance to true Christian fellowship. I feel just as much love …

'A Song of My Beloved'

Solomon 2:16

… What a wonderful expression! The Church is in God as God is in the Church! What a blessed dwelling place for the people of God in all generations …

The Master

John 11:28

… Christ's Church has but one Head and that is Christ! The doctrines which the Church has to teach cannot be tested by a Court of Arches, or …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… The analogy between the processes of Nature and God's work in the Church holds good not only as to the revivals of spring, but as to the …

The Indwelling and Outflowing of the Holy Spirit

John 7:38

… May it not be the fact that we enjoy less of His power and see less of His working in the world because the Church of God has …

How They Conquered the Dragon

Revelation 12:11

… Whenever the doctrine of the atonement has been obscured in the church in any measure, to that extent the power of the church has declined, but you shall …

The Problem of the Age

Mark 8:4

… If ever the Church should gird herself to do her Master's service, it is today. Never forget that the Church is the Spouse of Christ. She is …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… Paul, Ro 8:36, apparently from the LXX, in illustration of the fact that the church of God has in all ages been a persecuted church. But there …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

… The fury of the enemies of the church is raised to the highest pitch, nothing will content them but the total annihilation of God's chosen. Their wrath …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… The adversaries of the church are usually a noisy and a boastful crew. Their pride is a brass which always sounds, a cymbal which is ever tinkling. Verse …

Expected Proof of Professed Love

2 Corinthians 8:24

… Your people shall be my people and your God my God." And when you have joined the Church, then surely you should show a proof of your love …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… Another inference, only to be hinted at, is this, that the wants of the Church in all ages will be the same, and the supplies for the Church …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… And here would I address a word to the church of God in this country at this present time. She, too, is as Martha, cumbered with much serving …

Faith Necessary

… O, wherefore dost thou doubt, then? Christ “Altogether Lovely.” In calling the Lord Jesus “altogether lovely,” the Church asserts that she sees nothing in Him which she does …

An Indictment with Four Counts

Zephaniah 3:2

… We usually take Jerusalem to be the type of a church and it is one of the fullest types of the one true Church— "Jerusalem which is above …

The King In His Beauty

Isaiah 33:17

… He is a King in His own right—no limited monarch—but an autocrat in the midst of His Church, and in the Church all laws proceed from …

A Young Man's Vision

Acts 2:17

… I thought that I saw, from one end of England to the other, the Christian Church stirred with a deep sense of her duty to the heathen Christian …

Things Unknown

Jeremiah 33:3

… By-and-by, we find a friend who attends an Episcopal Church, where he hears the Gospel very plainly preached by a very earnest clergyman and we say …

Ruth Deciding for God

Ruth 1:16

… I am glad that all candidates for membership in our Church make their confession of faith at our Church Meetings. I have been told that such an ordeal …

The Matchless Mystery

Ephesians 5:30

… The Apostle, in speaking of the Church, said, concerning Christ, that the Church was His body, "the fullness of Him that fills all in all." And note the …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… It is very much the same with the bishops of another church that we know. How they labor to put men away from them with their pomp, their …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… What hurt the sin of a Christian does to the children of God! The sharpest trials God’s church has ever had, has come from her own sons …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… The Temple was a type of the Church and, therefore, the Temple must be built where the Sacrifice stopped the plague. The foundation stone of the Church is …

The Shulamite'S Choice Prayer

Solomon 8:6

… The love of the Church to Christ is the child of Christ's love to the Church, and consequently, there is something of the same attribute in both …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… You remember the faith of the coal miner? "What do you believe?" "I believe what the church believes." "But what does the church believe?" "Oh, the church believes …

David and His Volunteers

1 Chronicles 12:8-15

… You cannot be of the world and of Christ's Church. You may be nominally of the Church and really of the world—but really of the world …

A Wonderful Transformation

John 16:20

… Think of the early ages of the Church of God under the Roman persecutions. Think of the Church of Christ among the Vaudois of the Alps, or in …

If So—what Then?

1 Peter 4:18

… Happy is the Church that has in it many fathers and mothers in Israel. At the same time, a Church that is largely blessed by God will also …

Needless Fears

Isaiah 51:12

… Suppose it is the Church of God that is afraid of the oppressor? Let the Church ask, Where is the oppressor of which she needs to be afraid …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… Beloved hearers, the same principle applies to the church of God. We are praying for a display of the Holy Spirit’s power in this church, and, in …

Now, and Then

1 Corinthians 13:12

… The foremost man of his day in the Christian church, and exerting the widest influence among the converts to Christ, Paul thought of the little while ago when …

Weak Hands and Feeble Knees

Isaiah 35:8

… If the minister of Christ be weak, rest assured it is because the church itself is not strong. The ministry is but the index of the church. If …