The Church

Loosening The Sandal Strap

Luke 3:16

… And suppose we are willing to take the lowest place in the Church, yet Jesus took a lower place than we can, for He took the place of …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… He will come and fire the Church, and each individual member of it. Oftentimes the Spirit of God is set forth as oil. By Him we have the …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… When I was but a youth, the smallest boy almost that ever joined a church, I remember I thought that everybody believed what he said, and when I …

One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!

Proverbs 22:13

… I am one of those horrible lions—but the happy thought is that the lions are chained! Whenever you wish to join the Church, if you will only …

When Should We Pray?

Luke 18:1

… It is a Church difficulty—pray about it. I wish to bear my personal witness upon this matter. I have had and I still have, more burdens to …

Prayer 5 — To The King Eternal

… All the Church doth worship Thee, O God, every heart renewed by grace takes a delight in adoring Thee, and we, among the rest, though least and meanest …

Early And Late

Matthew 20:1

… There is not a solitary exception to this rule in the entire Christian Church. The doctrine of freewill has not a single specimen to show to prove itself …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… None but the eternal Father can send the Holy Spirit like showers on the church. He can send the comforter, and my labor will prosper; it will not …

A Heavenly Pattern for Our Earthly Life

Matthew 6:10

… The church below is a chamber of the one great house, and the partition which separates it from the church above is a mere veil, of inconceivable thinness …

Psalm 65

Psalm 65

… David sings of the glory of God in his church, and in the fields of nature: here is the song both of grace and providence. It may be …

The Cause And Cure Of Weariness In Sunday School Teachers

Galatians 6:9

… I have heard otherwise, sometimes, and yet I cannot blame you, for I have heard of Church meetings, too, which have not been "like a little Heaven below …

The Fear of Final Falling

… We see men joining first one church and then another, till they box the compass. They are everything by turns and nothing long. Such have double need to …

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… I hope there are some in this Church in whom the service of Christ has become the main object of their lives. If you stand up and preach …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… Now, as the Church hastily counts up her numbers and says, "So many were converted," the world has another register and counts up the apostates, the backsliders, the …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… As the ancient church ceases to speak to us, as she lays down her lyre, and ceases to touch it, the last tones are tones of heaven; as …

Refuges of Lies and What Will Become of Them

Isaiah 28:17

… I am not sure that I try to live a holy life, but still I am a member of a Church and that is a great comfort to …

The “Down-grade” Controversy Foreshadowed

… While the church under Mr. Spurgeon’s pastoral charge was worshipping in New Park Street Chapel, there were two notable controversies, — the first was caused by the issue …

Christ Manifesting Himself to His People

John 14:22

… Don’t you know the text—“We fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ, for his body’s sake, which is the church.” Christ …

The Cast-Off Sash

Jeremiah 13:1-11

… We may say, in these days, an emblem of the Church of God. I say it is an honorable emblem. I hardly know of one which is more …

Question 79: What is the duty of such as are rightly baptized?

Ac 2:47; Ac 9:26; 1Pe 2:5; Lu 1:6

… as are rightly baptized, to give up themselves to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ, # Ac 2:47 Ac 9:26 1Pe 2:5 that they …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… The heart of teachers in the Church ought to be full, and ready to pour forth those streams by which the Church is watered. Their spring ought not …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… Jesus Christ did not put us in His Church that we might sleep away our time on earth. Do not fancy that such an active spirit as that …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… O you church members! I beseech you, do not conclude that you are members of the invisible Church because you are members of the visible Church! Though your …

All Things working for Good

Christ is the arbiter of all events; in everything His sway is supreme; and He exercises His power for the good of His Church. He spins the thread …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… we have a very large influx of young believers, month after month—week after week I may say, for every week we receive additions to the church to …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… Condemn a man who sits next to his Father, the King of kings! Yet there is the church, and how can she in the slightest degree incur condemnation …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… Cassiodorus quaintly remarks that the psalms in which the alphabetical order is complete, are especially fitted for the righteous in the Church Triumphant, but those in which one …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… I could tell you the experience of a member of this church. She says, “I attended a place of worship regularly, and tried to work out a righteousness …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… The Psalm is called by the Greek church Polyeleos, from its continual mention of the mercy of God.— Neale and Littledale. Whole Psalm. In the liturgical language this …

The Holy Spirit in the Covenant

Ezekiel 36:27

… This holy anointing flows down from Jesus, the Anointed One, to every part of His mystical body, to every individual member of His Church. The Lord's declaration …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… Is not that a solemn thing? Ought anybody to trifle with it? To go to church and take it for sixpence? To come and join us for the …

The Principal Wheat

… If we are truly Christians we must be as much Christians outside the church as in it. We shall try to make our eating and our drinking, and …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… un-protestant church, and say, "I remain here because of my usefulness,"—my precious usefulness!—"for if I were to go out of the church I should be …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… They give a donation for anything that is being done by the Church of God—and these are their confidences. They have done this and that, and the …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… No church bell now shall summon me to the house of God. If I have neglected Christ I shall hear of Christ no more, No grace presented now …

The Uses of the Law

Galatians 3:19

… You would not exactly say so, but you secretly think so; you have devoutly taken the sacrament, you have been mightily pious in attending your church or chapel …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… a heart-searching, a Christ-exalting, a truth-unfolding, a sinner-converting, a church-feeding, a soul-saving ministry?’ This is the point at issue with many whom …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… The New Testament title for the Church of Christ is the ecclesia—the assembly of those who are "called out" from among men by the distinguishing Grace of …

The Privileges of Trial

… And certainly it is a fact, that the best of God’s promises are usually seen by His Church when she is in her darkest trials. As sure …

The Believer's Glad Prospects

Song 2:17

… There are times with every Church when it does not prosper as we would desire. There are times in this nation when we see error very rife and …