The Church

The Withered Hand

Matthew 12:10

… No doubt if there were, in a congregation, some person of known intelligence and great learning who had earned a high degree, there are persons who would say …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… And first, to you my well-beloved and trusty brethren and sisters in Christ, and in the family tie of church fellowship; to you I tender my fondest …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… two who have passed into eternity out of this congregation. Years ago the bulk of us, as Church members, were young, and we lost comparatively few by the …

Defiled and Defiling

Haggai 2:13

… And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times. This makes …

No Fixity Without Faith

Isaiah 7:9

… He has arranged every circumstance about the true preacher— what he shall say and where he shall say it—and every congregation is a picked congregation for God …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… The perpetuity of the church. Verse 30 ( last clause ). Church history, the marrow of all history. Verse 31. Future prospects for the church. I. Conversions certain. II. Preachers …

The Tabernacle—Outside The Camp

Exodus 33:7

… The reasons why the nominal Church at the present time is not the place where the Tabernacle is pitched, is that the Church has adulterated the worship of …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… Is not this the privilege which is accorded to the Church of God, in the words of Isaiah—"Your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation"? ( Isa. 33 …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… Another small congregation—more pews than people—sleepy nothings! Drive on!" he says, "no trouble here for my empire. Drive on to yonder Meeting House where there is …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… Olney, both deacons of the church, promised aid, which, with what I could myself give, enabled me to take one student (Mr. T. W. Medhurst), for whom I …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… is produced when once the fire comes down upon a congregation! I will picture you a Church without fire, and then one with it. There is a Chapel …

Ten Wrong Kinds of Hearers

Isaiah 58:1

… I do not know of a more beautiful sight than the present congregation, with every seat occupied, and some people even willing to stand to hear the Word …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… Is He a Husband? He must love His Church and give Himself for her, that He may cleanse and perfect her. Is He a Friend? He "sticks closer …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… The church-book, in its records of the annual church-meeting held January 12, 1859, contains the following entry:— “Our Pastor, in accordance with a previous notice, then …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… church, and found favour with some early fathers. It has commended itself to the acceptance of good recent expositors, like Dr. Delitzsch, who calls the Psalter "the congregation …

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

… A young gentleman, after delivering an elaborate discourse, was told that not more than five or six in the congregation had been able to understand him. This he …

Joy in Salvation

Psalm 9:4

… And when I come to die, whoever I may be, however little my standing in the Church of God is, if I am in Christ, I will rejoice …

Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc.

… I like to look down upon my congregation—to fire into them. The common people say I am a bould preacher, for I like to have my arms …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… If I preached to a congregation of kings, I would preach just the same gospel that I would preach to a congregation of clodhoppers. The king on his …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the camp, for the service of one's country, would excite astonishment in the Church, for the service of our …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… With the wider sphere we now occupy as a church, I propose so to enlarge my scheme that all the members of this church and congregation, who happen …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… And if God will help you and help me to lay near to heart the neighborhood in which we live, the family over which we preside, the congregation …

Prospect—"He Will Keep"

John 17:11

… THREE SPECIALLY- SELECTED SERMONS TO HIS CHURCH, CONGREGATION, READERS AND FRIENDS, CONSISTING OF A RETROSPECT, A PROSPECT [No. 1883] AND AN EXHORTATION [No. 1884.] WHAT a wonderful intercommunion …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… Naturally, he refrained from telling the congregation the special details which I have here recorded ; but, many years after, he told the tale to his students at one …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… lie nailed up his theses on the church door, and showed that one man at least had faith in the gospel and in its God. Then trouble came …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… In August, 1876, I ceased to be in charge of a congregation. I then became colleague and minister emeritus of the Free North Church, Stirling. I am the …

The Cholera Year in London

… IN the year 1854, when I had scarcely been in London twelve months, the neighborhood in which I labored was visited by Asiatic cholera, and my congregation suffered …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… So-and-so, who often brought tears to your eyes, and of late you have been here, and there have been times with this congregation when the word …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… congregation is a grievous thorn and sharp prick of the cursed bramble, sharply set and bent to do mischief in malice and fury to the people and church …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… I say some of the modes, since I suppose that as the Lord Jesus left his disciples free from rubrics and liturgies, each church worshipped according to the …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… Where is my Church to be housed, and where my congregation to be gathered? And but last night in unbelief I thought it never could be that such …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… large congregation, should be very precise about the color of his cravat, and about the respect that is paid to his dignity in his little church; I can …

Sin Immeasurable

Psalm 19:12

… And now I single out any other member of my congregation, and whatever be your position in life, whatever your education, or the peculiar providences through which you …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Here it is that we who are now assembled as a church have most reason to bless God, and to say, “Who maketh us to differ from others …

The Character of Christ’s People

John 17:16

… My office is not a worldly one.” Whether yours be the office of the minister, or the deacon, or the church member, ye are not of this world …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… They are like the old woman who was asked when she came home from Church, "Did you understand the sermon?" "No;" she answered, "I would not have the …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… In the midst of this vast assemblage, the members of our own church were happily by no means in a minority. Our church has thus once more given …

Divine Sovereignty

Matthew 20:15

… Behold how God displays his Sovereignty in this fact, that out of the same congregation, those who hear the same minister, and listen to the same truth, the …

Omniscience

Genesis 16:13

… for thou hast done this evil in my sight.” Lastly, you ask me what you must do to be saved; and I will never let a congregation go …

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds

… They cannot be a perfect church till all are gathered in, and therefore do they long for our appearing. But, to come to our text a little more …