The Church

Unprofitable Servants

Matthew 25:30

… If they want pleasure, they go outside the Church to get it—their joys are not within the circle of which Christ is the center. Their religion is …

Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated

Colossians 3:13

… What numbers of Church members think that the duties of a Church are all one-sided. "I was ill and nobody came to see me." "Did you send …

Christ Our Life—Soon To Appear

Colossians 3:4

… I do not believe the world would be half so lenient to the Church, today, if it were not that the Church has grown complacent to the world …

The Divine Call for Missionaries

Isaiah 6:8

… O, when will His Church fully believe in the Glory of her Lord and rejoice therein, so that His power shall fill her, as His train filled the …

Co-workers With God

Psalm 127:1

… Give us a working Church, but let it first be a trusting Church! Let the man be earnest, but first let him be humble. Let him believe in …

Cambridge Life and Letters, 1850-1851

… When I joined the Baptist Church at Cambridge, — one of the most respectable churches that can be found in the world, one of the most generous, one of …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… So surely as Mount Zion shall never be "removed", so surely shall the church of God be preserved. Is it not strange that wicked and idolatrous powers have …

The Glorious Right Hand Of The Lord

Numbers 11:23

… I speak thus not of all—there are a few exceptions—but still, it is the general rule that as a Church, the Church does not believe God …

Prayer 17 — To Be Like Christ

… The Lord bless the Church of Christ there, nor do Thou fail to remember the struggling ones on the continent of Europe and all the missionaries that are …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… And the Lord, you see, gives to his Church all the ornaments she can possibly desire. There are ornaments for her ears, a crown for her head, bracelets …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… I wish that the Lord would visit all His Church with a heavy shower of rain. I mean, by way of softening the Church, making the Church loving …

Love's Logic

1 John 4:19

… He, who, being in the church, is yet not of it heart aud soul, is but an intruder in the family. But since love to our brethren springs …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… There are some Church members who still want always to have the influence of somebody who is a superintendent to them, just as Elisha was to Joash in …

Obedience Rewarded

Matthew 28:8-10

… It should be an encouragement to those members of the Church of Christ who are neither pastors nor teachers that, if they live very near to God, they …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… If thou breakest the commandments of the ceremonial law, if thou dost violate the ritual of thy church, thine offence might be propitiated by the priest, but who …

Fearing and Hoping

Psalm 147:11

… Shall not the Church of God, of which Jerusalem was a type, praise God that He is steadily and solidly building up a Church to His praise and …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… You filled up that which was behind of the sufferings of Christ for His body's sake, which is the Church. Still come! Ever, come! Forever come! Come …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… Now, very soon, within the Church of God, there rose up persons who began to dispute the fundamental and cardinal principles of the faith—and it is so …

The Christian's Glorious Inventory

1 Corinthians 3:21-23

… But ministers of all kinds are yours—they are not their own, they belong to the Church at large. There is Paul. He has a clear, logical mind …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… How necessary it was, history has shown, for the apostate church of Rome has actually made Mary a Mediatrix and prayers have been addressed to her! She has …

Communion With Christ And His People

… We must, therefore, first enjoy union with Christ, and with His Church, or else we cannot enjoy communion. Union lies at the basis of communion. We must be …

God's Fire and Hammer

Jeremiah 23:29

… There have been old systems of iniquity that have been hoary with age, but when, at last, they have been attacked by the Church of God with the …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… If a certain Church which seems to need revival is laid upon your soul, or a township or a district, mark well the fact. Suppose you find your …

Prayer 13 — The Wings of Prayer

… Bless, we pray Thee, at this time, the entire Church of God in every part of the earth. Prosper the work and service of Christian people, however they …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… may God long preserve such men in the midst of the church; I would stimulate every one of you to imitate him. Seek for great faith and great …

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… But if He come not, yet put power into Thy truth and quicken Thy Church that she may become energetic for the spread of it, that so Thy …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… You shall find a man a member of a Christian Church who will tell you that wherever he has gone in that Church he has met with Brothers …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… If a man is a fornicator, or a drunkard, we put him out of the church; but who ever read of church discipline against that idolatrous wretch,—the …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… A false church has commanded its votaries to pay religious homage to angels, contrary both to the example and the express precept of Holy Writ. The angels are …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… He loved His Church and gave Himself for it, that He might present it to Himself, "without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing." There is no washing …

Prayer 2 — Thanks Be Unto God

… Bless our beloved Church and all its organizations. O God, take care of it. Oh! do thou make every member of the Church a pastor over others. Let …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… Weep, weep, weep, O church, for thou hast lost thy martyrs; weep, O church, for thou hast lost thy confessors, thy holy men are fallen. Howl, fir tree …

A Blow For Puseyism

John 6:63

… But when I read the newspapers and other productions of the High Church party, I find that transubstantiation with all its fullness of absurdity is extensively preached and …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… We very often estimate the power of the Church by looking to her ministers, her ordinances and her members—but the power of the Church does not lie …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… On the summit was a large church, into which I entered. No one was there, yet the place for me had a marvelous interest. High up in the …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… His Spirit's work even now creates a hallowed harmony between his church below, and the sovereign righteousness above; and in the latter day, earth shall be universally …

No Illusion

Acts 12:9

… So he seizes upon him who was accounted a pillar in the Church with singular avidity. Mark you, Brothers and Sisters, if by any fault of our own …

A Holiday Drive to the New Forest

… By the way, this morning we went into the church here, and saw an old door which was riddled by the Parliamentarians; we were also regaled with a …

A Song at the Wellhead

Numbers 21:16-18

… Oh, how lacking our prayers are in this one essential element! If we had more faith what large blessings would come down to the Church! When I listen …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… there were some that admired the church. They said she was fair. She seemed to say, “Don’t say it; you don’t know what I am, or …