The Church

'Until He Finds It'

Luke 15:4

… He Himself said, "The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep." And the Apostle Paul wrote, "Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it." The main …

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… An appeal to Caesar upon Church matters never crossed his mind. For the Church of God ever to avail itself of force or compulsion in order to propagate …

All For Jesus!

Colossians 3:24

… I hope there are many in this Church who, in these better days, are rendering equally valuable service in households where the name of Jesus is not reverenced …

Psalm 108

Psalm 108

… The church is the Lord's "beloved", or the incorporation, more loved than anything else in the world, therefore here called, "Thy beloved." Because the church is God …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… Many in the Church do not as yet understand the loftier doctrines of Revelation. They know Christ. They know themselves, somewhat, but they cannot "comprehend with all saints …

Concern For Other Men's Souls

Romans 9:1-5

… He was whole-hearted when he persecuted the Church of God and he was equally whole-hearted when, afterwards, he labored with all his might to build up …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… Christ is the one and only Head and supreme Ruler of His Church. It is true that there are men who sat themselves up as governors of Christ …

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… the midst of God's Church, be found among the living in Zion and make the Church on earth and the Church in Heaven glad in his society …

The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"

Philippians 3:20

… It is a very good thing for Christians to be in the Church, but if you are in the Church before you are in the Lord, you are …

Citizenship In Heaven

Philippians 3:20

… But the Church has grown weary of this hope. There have been so many false prophets who tell us that Christ is coming, that the Church thinks He …

Gracious Renewal

Psalm 51:10

… As a Church we all met together as a loving family, and it was a sight of the most encouraging kind to see a great host, like the …

Unto You, Young Men

1 John 2:14

… The young blood of the Church, under God, is our great hope in the conflict for King Jesus! The young men of the Church must be, in the …

The Disowned

Matthew 7:21-23

… O my Brothers and Sisters, I am speaking to myself as I speak to every member of this Church and every member of any other Christian Church—I …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… Among you there are members of the church who are very poor; there are in proportion probably more poor among us than in another church of our order …

Simple But Sound

John 9:25

… Suppose now a person getting up in the church meeting, (and there are scores and hundreds here who attend church meetings), and saying, "Brethren, I come to unite …

Prayer 6 — The Wonders of Calvary

… Lord, visit our church. We have heard Thy message to the churches at Ephesus. It is a message to us also. Oh! do not let any of us …

The Joy of Holy Households

Psalm 118:15

… I have a church in my house and all my household are in the Church." Here is a picture, a pattern, a paragon, a paradise! We may say …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… Here is the whole Jewish church expressing the fear that God has forgotten her! I feel sure that I am not now addressing such a church as that …

The Feast of the Lord

… Recording to the Romish Church, the most of the people are only to participate in the bread—the wafer. Now such persons never show Christ's death at …

The Jewel of Peace

2 Thessalonians 3:16

… Although, no doubt, Church quiet is included as one variety of peace, yet it would be a sad dwarfing of the meaning of the Spirit to consider one …

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… A member of the church has disgraced his profession, the church excommunicated him, and he was accounted “a heathen man and a publican.” I know of men of …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… So you may go from church to church, and find scarcely any that are growing. Here and there a chapel is filled with people; here and there you …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… OBSERVE the title whereby he addressed the Church—“Brethren.” It was the gospel which taught Paul how to say brother . If he had not been a Christian, his …

Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

… See the transgressor! He rushes towards the church, the guards pursue him with their drawn swords, athirst for his blood! They follow him even to the church door …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… Titus appears to have been a man of business capacity and strict honesty, as well as a man who could order the Church aright and preach the Gospel …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… I think to-morrow night we shall have to report at the church meeting the deaths of nine members of this church within the last eight or nine …

Tell It All

Mark 5:33

… It puts into the Church those who are not in the Church. It gives religious rites to the unconverted. It teaches men that because their mothers and fathers …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… First, then, I speak to the Church of God at large, wherever it has backslidden, and to each Believer in particular WHO MAY HAVE DEPARTED FROM THE LIVING …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… I am not inclined to look to the Plymouth Church, or the Romish Church, or the Greek Church, or any other Church, for my saints—I find them …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… But here are millions upon millions of violets which are never smelt by anybody which grow among the nettles at the back of the Church, or away in …

The Candle

Matthew 5:15

… The whole world is a house in which the Church is the candle and, therefore, the members of the Church should so shine, each one in his place …

The Search For Faith

Luke 18:8

… When had they any? He does not confine His scrutiny to an ordained ministry or a visible church—He takes a much wider sweep—"Shall He find faith …

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… I do not think that, on the whole, anybody could fairly describe us as being a lazy Church. But there never was a hive of bees without there …

Love's Vigilance Rewarded

Solomon 3:4

… I do hope that all the members of this Church love the whole Church of God and also have a special affection for that particular part of it …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… The darkest hours of the Church's night are those which precede the break of day. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. Jesus will come to deliver …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… As Christ had what our Church of England friends call His Epiphany, when He was manifested to men, so faith, though it may, for a while, be swaddled …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… The outer world is always the representative of the inner; the life which clusters round the Exchange illustrates that which gathers within the church; and if our eyes …

A Sermon From A Rush

Job 8:11-13

… The Church is not quite so earnest as it was and what then? Where are your converts? Oh, how many there are who are hot-house plants—while …

Jesus in Gethsemane

John 18:1

… You know all about church government and church order, and you can go and tell pretty tales about the mistakes made by some of God's servants who …

The Tender Grapes

Solomon 2:13

… The vine is constantly used, in Scripture, as a picture of the nominal Church of Christ, so, like the vine, we must either bring forth fruit or we …