The Church

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… Everything exists for the servants of God! Creation is but a scaffold for the Church—and when God's Church is finished, then all may be taken down …

The Best of All—god Is With Us

1 Chronicles 22:18

… The Lord Jesus still lives and He will take care that His Church shall live and work on until He, Himself, shall descend from Heaven with a shout …

The Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… THIS MAY BE TRUE OF ANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH. It has long been my joy, Beloved in the Lord, that our heart has not been divided. We have walked …

Hearing, Seeking, Finding

Psalm 132:6

… You know how the last chapters of the Book of Revelation describe the glorified Church and God dwelling in the midst of it. "The Lord has chosen Zion …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… Let every Christian pray to God that, as the eye is the ornament of the body, he may be kept as an ornament to the Christian Church. What …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… The mischief of the Christian Church at large is a lack of holy confidence in God. The reason why we have had, as a Church, I believe, unprecedented …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… Go home to your houses, humble yourselves before God, ye members of Christ’s church, and cry aloud that he will visit his church, and that he would …

'It Pleased God'

Galatians 1:15

… And I went up by revelation he was sent by the Church at Antioch, but the Church there was guided by Revelation, so that Paul is correct in …

The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Acts 10:44

… While the church was found asleep, and doing very little, the Socinian could afford to stand in his pulpit and sneer at anything like evangelical religion, but now …

David's Sublime Consolation

2 Samuel 23:5

… The faithful minister makes the Church that he serves his family. The earnest deacon, the truly-called elder, considers the Church, too, to be his household. The excellent …

The Church and the World

… But, alas! the Church is so much adulterated, that we have to abate our glorying, and cannot exalt our character as we would. O, for the time when …

A Call to the Depressed

Isaiah 52:2

… Such counsel would be suitable to any Church in a low condition. Such advice is equally adapted to any Christian who has fallen into a low state, who …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… Why, if it could be put to the vote among Believers today who should be the Head of the Church, there would be but One chosen. If we …

Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension

Psalm 68:18

… Especially by His Resurrection and by His climbing to the Throne of God, He has made the victory of His Truth, the victory of His Church—the victory …

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… And I cannot go down, for Jesus Christ is my All-in-All." He wanted to join the Church, and they said he must tell his experience. He …

Faith Working By Love

Galatians 5:6

… But if you are to be a working Church and a loving Church you must be a believing Church, for that is the bottom of it all. Faith …

Evening, August 20

Ne 3:8

… The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. Professors are no longer strict and …

The Blessings of Public Worship

Luke 18:10

… It has much to do with the gathering, the sustenance, the strengthening, the invigorating and the extension of the Church of Christ. And it is through the Church …

Evening, February 16

Ne 9:20

… The church will never prosper until more reverently it believes in the Holy Ghost. He is so good and kind, that it is sad indeed that he should …

Morning, July 15

Le 6:13

… Have you nothing to pray for? Let us suggest the Church, the ministry, your own soul, your children, your relations, your neighbours, your country, and the cause of …

Morning, December 28

Ga 2:20

… It is the neck which joins the body of the Church to its all-glorious Head. “Oh Faith! thou bond of union with the Lord, Is not this …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… Are you not longing to drink of it?—to enter into that great church fellowship, and attend those glorious church meetings, “Where all the chosen race Shall meet …

The Door

John 10:9

… He shall go in to the Church to have fellowship with all the saints. He shall go in to that secret of the Lord which is with them …

Morning, November 24

Is 33:21

… God is all this to his Church. Having God she has abundance . What can she ask for that he will not give her? What want can she mention …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… Then to a third invention of a potent pontiff—and so by degrees the church apostatized until it ceased to be a church and became the persecutor of …

A Well-ordered Life

Psalm 119:133

… His Church hinders the blessing by her inconsistency. A worldly Church chases away the Spirit of God. Wherever there is a people conformed to the maxims and ways …

Morning, November 15

De 32:9

… There is no mortgage on his estate; no suits can be raised by opposing claimants, the price was paid in open court, and the Church is the Lord …

Evening, December 13

Is 54:12

Evening, December 13 Go To Morning Reading “I will make thy windows of agates.” Isaiah 54:12 The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by …

Faith, And The Witness Upon Which It Is Founded

1 John 5:9

… They believe what the Church believes. "But what does the Church believe?" "It believes what I believe." "And what do you and the Church believe?" "We both believe …

Morning, October 8

Lu 5:4

… When Jesus is lifted up in his Church, his presence is the Church’s power—the shout of a king is in the midst of her. “I, if …

Daniel's Band

Daniel 10:11

… The blood mark is now on you—you are one for whom He died in that special way which secures effectual salvation to you! He loved His Church …

Evening, November 28

Es 10:3

… It were well if every Christian would be a Mordecai to the church, striving according to his ability for its prosperity. Some are placed in stations of affluence …

Evening, June 26

2Pe 1:4

… An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… So today—you will go to Church, you will go to Chapel, you will read a book, you will perform an outward religious action, but oh, how little …

Evening, November 30

Rev 12:7

… The church may become slothful, but not so her great antagonist; his restless spirit never suffers the war to pause; he hates the woman’s seed, and would …

Evening, August 24

Ex 22:6

… The fire of strife is a terrible evil when it breaks out in a Christian church. Where converts were multiplied, and God was glorified, jealousy and envy do …

Moses—His Faith and Decision

Hebrews 11:24-26

… Looking critically at the Church of God, we soon detect much that is faulty, many shortcomings and many grievous evils. Yet the Church of God is God's …

The Dumb Singing

Isaiah 35:5

… God has raised up, of late, especially in the Church of England, a large number of thoroughly Evangelical men who are not afraid to declare the whole counsel …

Love Pledging Fidelity

1 Samuel 18:3

… This was the first link between Christ and the Church. Then, in the fullness of time, our Lord's great love to us led Him into visible union …

Conceit Rebuked

Job 34:33

… Sometimes this difference comes up concerning the Church of Christ. Some people do not like God's order of Church membership and Church government—they would like to …