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The Spirit and the Wind
John 3:8
… O ship of the Church, how could you speed over the sea of time? The trees of the forest would no more clap their hands. Stagnation of progress …
DEVOTIONALMorning, March 25
Lu 22:48
… the name of the Lord Jesus; I am a member of his visible Church; I sit at the communion table: all these are so many kisses of my …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 7
Mt 12:15
… It was by taking upon himself our sicknesses. “By his stripes we are healed.” The Church on earth is full of souls healed by our beloved Physician; and …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… As the prayer of Stephen brought Saul into the Church and made him an Apostle, so the prayer of Christ brought in 3,000 at Pentecost to become …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 10
Jude 24
… The Saviour who will keep his people to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as “a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 6
Is 44:3
… right to expect of you; that you are not so useful in the Church, or in the world, as your heart desires to be? Then here is exactly …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 26
Mt 28:20
Evening, December 26 Go To Morning Reading “Lo, I am with you alway.” Matthew 28:20 The Lord Jesus is in the midst of his church; he walketh …
SERMON • SERMON 3021Landlord and Tenant
Isaiah 38:1
… Do it for the Church's sake. So live that when the church misses you, there shall be left behind you your gracious memory and your holy example …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 14
Mk 4:36
… His Church is the Admiral’s flagship, let us attend her movements, and cheer her officers with our presence. He himself is the great attraction; let us follow …
DEVOTIONALMorning, September 24
Ezr 8:22
… Would any believers seek state endowments for their Church, if they remembered that the Lord is dishonoured by their asking Caesar’s aid? as if the Lord could …
SERMON • SERMON 1327Christ the Overcomer of the World
John 16:33
… There is a Church which Christ has redeemed and chosen out of the world and separated unto Himself from among men. And of these as renewed by the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 21
Job 38:31
… When he deigns to visit a church and revive it, the most inveterate enemies cannot resist the good work; they may ridicule it, but they can no more …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 23
Lu 19:40
… s great work in ancient times, in all that he did for his church in the days of old? If the stones were to speak, they could tell …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 20
Je 31:3
Morning, December 20 Go To Evening Reading “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3 Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells his Church his love …
SERMON • SERMON 2885Christ's Sympathy With His People
Hebrews 2:18
… You will say, as a young convert did when he came to join the Church, "I don't know which it is, but either everything else is changed …
SERMON • SERMON 1201Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther
Esther 9:1
… The enemies of the Church of God and of His people can never do more than the Lord permits—they cannot go a hair's breadth beyond the …
SERMON • SERMON 2215Young Man! A Prayer For You
2 Kings 6:17
… What a man he would make if he were but right with God! Think of Saul of Tarsus, how he harassed the Church of Christ! But when the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 17
Jn 10:9
… 10:9 Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God himself. He gives to the man who …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 12
Job 36:2
… too much indulge this trembling propensity, lest you should be useless to the church. Seek in the name of him who was not ashamed of you to do …
SERMON • SERMON 1138Morning And Evening Songs
Psalm 92:2
… My Brothers and Sisters, as a Church, let us declare how faithful God has been to us! Our history as a Church has been very wonderful. When we …
SERMON • SERMON 2969Angelic Protection in Appointed Ways
Psalm 91:11
… There are hundreds, and I fear thousands, of church members who say that they are the people of God, yet they appear to live entirely to this world …
SERMON • SERMON 3158The Fifth Beatitude
Matthew 5:7
… It is said of Chry-sostom that he so continually preached the Doctrine of almsgiving in the Christian Church that they called him the Preacher of Alms—and …
SERMON • SERMON 2860Owl or Eagle?
Psalm 102:6
… David, on the whole, lived in times in which the Church of God prospered. Some think that the 102nd Psalm was written by Nehemiah, or by Daniel, who …
SERMON • SERMON 2150"All the Day Long"
Proverbs 23:17
… These verses are found in the Book of Proverbs—let them pass current as Proverbs in the Church of God as they did in Israel of old. Let …
SERMON • SERMON 2577Living on the Word
Deuteronomy 8:3
… When the church at Laodicea was neither cold nor hot, so that Christ felt that He must spew her out of His mouth, yet even then He said …
SERMON • SERMON 1632The Nazarene and the Sect of the Nazarenes
Matthew 2:23
… That is your Presbyterianism and, as James the First said, Presbyterianism is no religion for a gentleman." These learned men admire the broad-Church school where everything is …
SERMON • SERMON 2919'Whose Goodness Never Fails'
John 10:11
… And so, in the Church of God there are some that keep near the Shepherd and that know Him well. And all His people know something of Him …
SERMON • SERMON 1636Chastened Happiness
Jeremiah 33:9
… Brothers and Sisters, we are just now in a critical time of our life as a Church. Whatever of novelty there was about our movements has long since …
SERMON • SERMON 1867Untitled Sermon
Exodus 15:1
… When the Church is strong and God is with her, then is our heart revived and our song bursts forth, "The Lord is my strength and my song …
SERMON • SERMON 2719True Learning
Ephesians 4:20
… Someone was asking, the other day, how it was that the church, nowadays, was not so separate from the world as it used to be, and one who …
SERMON • SERMON 986Victor Emmanuel, Emancipator
Isaiah 42:7
… Here is our comfort under all the assaults with which the Christian faith is threatened, and under all the disappointments which the Christian church has hitherto undergone; Emmanuel …
SERMON • SERMON 1150Life More Abundant
John 10:10
… And from young men we become fathers in the Church. Jesus would have us grow. This is one of the designs of His coming and thus do we …
SERMON • SERMON 530The Chief Of Sinners
1 Timothy 1:15
… Well might she love much! And many a loving spirit do I know, and there are some very dear to God's Church here, who love their Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 2863Great Forgiveness for Great Sin
Ephesians 1:7
… Is this woman intended to represent the Church of Chris, and is she thus set before us because the Church is the great agent under the control of …
SERMON • SERMON 2500Number 2500—or, "Entrance and Exclusion"
Matthew 25:10
… but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." "They that were ready went in with him to the marriage," right up to the banqueting table, to partake of …
SERMON • SERMON 3138Mocking the King
Matthew 27:28-30
… He instituted the ordinance of Believers' Baptism to be the introductory rite into Church fellowship, but the mockers have changed the subject, mode and meaning of the ordinance …
SERMON • SERMON 2390A Royal Funeral
John 19:38-42
… For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God. Yet He was one …
SERMON • SERMON 1407Compassion on the Ignorant
Hebrews 5:2
… You were members of a Church years ago. Where are you now? The Church may well disown you and you may well disown the Church, for you are …
SERMON • SERMON 2769The Weakened Christ Strengthened
Luke 22:43
… Lamentable circumstance—sad index of what often still occurs! The worst traitors to Christ are not outside, but inside the visible Church. There they have the best opportunity …
SERMON • SERMON 2636The Perpetuity of the Gospel
Luke 21:33
… The 20th Psalm is a prayer for the King—not only for David or Solomon, but for "great David's greater Son"—the true King of the Church …