The Church

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… You false professors are universally despised! Worldlings laughingly say, "Ah, these are pretty specimens of Church members!" The world looks upon a worldly church with utter disdain, and …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… The blessing comes from Zion or the Church: for there is nothing so burdensome and difficult, but what it can be easily borne by those who are the …

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… Spurgeon's earthly life proved to be a very prolific period both for the Tabernacle Church and the various Institutions connected with it. Towards the close of his …

The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God

Romans 8:14

… There is an inner Church of God's own elect within every one of the Christian denominations—and this Church is made up of men spiritually enlightened—who …

'Non Nobis, Domine!'

Psalm 115:1

… And if your prayer should not be on behalf of some gross transgressor, but on behalf of a fallen church—suppose it should be for a church that …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… Teacher, “ Joined Church at Cambridge, Oct. 2, 1850 CONSECRATION. O great and unsearchable God, who knowest my heart, and triest all my ways; with a humble dependence upon …

"A Man Under Authority"

Matthew 8:8

… You would purge the Church? You had better see to it that your own heart is purged! You would reform the world? Out with you! What have you …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… There is no necessity that they should be, but alas! Alas! Alas! Search the whole Church through, and you shall find them in multitudes, and in some you …

Christ's Pastoral Prayer for His People

John 17:9

… Unity is the glory of the Church of Christ! It shall be the very crown of the Church of the living God and when she puts it on …

The Sinner's Refuge

Numbers 35:11

… So, you self-righteous ones, you may flee to your good works, you may flee to your baptism and your confirmation—and your church or your chapel attendance …

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… I am a professor of religion, and have been a member of a church now these twenty years." You may be a member of a church fifty years …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… The Corinthians were a highly-gifted Church. They probably had more knowledge and more of the gifts of utterance than any other Church of their day. But, alas …

The Whole Machinery of Salvation

Romans 10:14

… If we had but all our Church members resolved to testify the Gospel of the Grace of God, then would we see men hearing! Then would we find …

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

Acts 26:14

… Engaged as he is both day and night in pleading the cause of his own church before his Father’s throne, it is condescension indeed which could induce …

Never! Never! Never! Never! Never!

Hebrews 13:5

… Every man who is eminently useful in the Church will know seasons when as the champion of Israel he must go forth alone. This, however, is compensated by …

Speaking on God's Behalf

Job 36:2

… By the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit within him, he should ring out, as it were, in silver notes, through all his conversation, both in the Church …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… The highest pleasure of Christ is derived from the fact, that he has become the “head over all things to his Church,” and has saved that Church. He …

The Two Yokes

Jeremiah 28:13

… You did not seek Church-membership, nor cast yourself in the way of God's people. By-and-by it was not one service a day you attended …

Welcome! Welcome!

Luke 9:11

… A clergyman passes by a window on his way to Church. A baby was being dandled there and he smiled at the baby, and the baby at him …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… We should pray that, according to the Lord's infinite goodness, His ascension gifts may be continued and multiplied for the perfecting of His Church, for when He …

The Perseverance of the Saints

Philippians 1:6

… It is the great and standing grief of the Christian Church, that so many in her midst become apostates. It is true they are not truly of her …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… It would never do to say, "What would the Church have me to do?" As far as the Church teaches what Christ taught, obey her, but no farther …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… What strange diversity there has been in the dealings of God with His Church! When He has chastened His people He has scarcely ever made use of the …

The Covenant Pleaded

Psalm 74:20

… Is Your Church low? Raise up in her midst, again, men who preach the Gospel with power who shall be the means of lifting her up! Creator of …

Religion—a Reality

Deuteronomy 32:47

… Again, that religion which only lies in making a profession of what one does not posses , in wearing the Christian name, and observing the ritual of the Church …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… depressed and filled with doubt and fears—have not we seen you very Church members become the victims of some darling sin, the prey of some base lust …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… I think it was this doctrine which Martin Luther called the article of standing or falling of the Church. I find a passage in his works which seems …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… When he was asked, "What do you believe?" He answered, "I believe as the church believes." He was then questioned, "But what does the church believe?" He replied …

The Value and Rank of the Believer

Isaiah 43:4

… If God has loved His Church, He has loved every member of that Church. And if His Church is precious in His sight, so is each individual Believer …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… They have lived in the Church and died in the Church, but have been taken away in solemn judgment and cast into the fire. Then there is a …

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… These are members of the Church Militant in another than the best sense. When the Grace of God enters their hearts and consecrates their obstinacy into firmness, they …

All Or None—or, Compromises Refused— a Sermon With Five Texts

Exodus 10:26

… I cannot tell what may be the needs of the poor, the needs of the Church, the needs of Christ's Church all over the land. I do …

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And the church …

The Pierced Heart of Jesus

John 19:32-37

… It is to the Church like a refiner's fire. The mere dross is separated. The faithless, who are found among the faithful, soon apostatize, while the sterling …

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… When Moses said, "Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto me," He was virtually gathering a Church and enlist- ing an army of men …

Introduction

… He wrote:— “Hone, in his Year Book, gives a letter from a correspondent in Raleigh, Nottinghamshire, which states that, many centuries since, the church and a whole village …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… Why, my friend, there are so many as that belonging to your church. You believe that none will be saved but those who hear your minister, and believe …

God's Fatherly Pity

Psalm 103:13

… In the Church of God it behooves us to have the same pity on the ignorant as our heavenly Father has shown towards us in our ignorance—and …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

… Bonar, in "Christ and his Church in the Book of Psalms," 1859. Whole Psalm. A second edition of the fourteenth Psalm, with variations more or less important, in …

Our Lord's Posture in Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

… May I hope that I am among the them, for on those disciples the blessing came that it might come on the whole Church of Christ of which …