The Church

Jesus In Our Midst

John 20:19

… There are many preachers in the Church, but not one of them is in the midst of the family circle of the redeemed. The Lord, alone, is there …

Patients for the Great Physician

Luke 5:31

… I have been in the habit of going to church or chapel ever since I was a lad—I do not know that anybody can say much against …

Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots

Joshua 17:18

… How they have grown! How they have vanquished inbred sin! The tears come into my eyes when I think of certain members of this Church—some in Heaven …

False Justification and True

Job 9:20

… He had never neglected his parish church, he had brought up 11 children and had no help from the parish. And he expected that, by-and-by, he …

All Fulness in Christ

Colossians 1:19

… Where would you desire to have grace placed, my brethren, but in the Well-beloved? The whole church of God is unanimous about this. If I could save …

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… But ah, why is it that we so seldom think of the living present Savior, who is the Church's Head? Calculate the forces of the Church if …

Mary'S Song

Luke 1:46

… You feel yourself to be today so useless to the Church of God, so insignificant, so utterly unworthy, that your unbelief whispers, "Surely, surely, you have nothing to …

Burden-bearing

Galatians 6:2

… He may be afraid to come back into membership with the church—if so, go after him and encourage him to return. If he says, "I have brought …

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… One man said, "Whenever I went to Church before, I calculated how many looms the church would hold"—for he was a weaver—"but when I heard Whitefield …

Taking Hold of God's Covenant

Isaiah 56:4

… I read that He loved His Church and gave Himself for it, so I say, "Lord, I will be a part of Your Church. I will, by Your …

The Seed Upon a Rock

Matthew 13:5

… In joining a Church, I would try to find out what that Church believed and I would not join it if I did not believe its doctrines. I …

Following Christ

John 21:22

… I wonder what there is for us to do as a Church? Do you think, dear Friends, that we are doing all that we ought to do for …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… You knew he was a member of a Christian Church, yet he very cautiously held his tongue for a long time and then quietly said something about not …

The Parable of the Sower

… They come to join the church; they tell us a story of how they heard us preach on such-and-such an occasion, and, oh, the word was …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… I have always attended a large, handsome church, but if I could find You in that little despised Meeting House, I would be glad to go there. Though …

The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness

Isaiah 26:9

… Sometimes it is a night over the whole church at once; and I fear we have very much of that night now. There are times when Zion is …

Is It True?

Daniel 3:14

… Do not talk about Baptism or the Lord's Supper, nor of joining a Church, nor of being a Christian! For if you do, you will lie against …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… And when the Church finds her piece of money, she, too, has her merry-making. She calls together her friends and rejoices, and the Holy Spirit delights to …

In the Hay Field

Psalm 104:14

… The church is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all. Nature would be incomplete without the trembling grass blade, and the economy of Divine …

The First Setting Up of the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:4-9

… But, take the whole of us together as the Church of God, and you will find that our lives are mirrored, pictured and foreseen in the travels of …

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… Oftentimes in my own short career in connection with this Church and with the many works of God committed to my charge, I have been brought to a …

Satan Considering the Saints

Job 1:8

… Oh may God grant us grace, as a Church, to stand against the wiles of Satan and his attacks, that having done his worst he may gain no …

New Uses for Old Trophies

2 Kings 11:10

… Hake the church to join your grateful song. There is too much of the cold silence of ingratitude amongst us. Too seldom do we chant forth our Te …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… The tree of the Church seems, at times, covered with beautiful blossoms—what can be more lovely to the eyes? But the blossoms do not knit— faith is …

Too Good to Be Saved!

Luke 18:14

… Yet, mark you, the Church will not be altered in order to please you! If it were, we would also have to alter many of our best hymns …

Deadness and Quickning

Psalm 119:37

… I spoke with one who used to be a member of this Church—a truly spiritual man he always seemed to me, but he had left to attend …

The Rider on the White Horse and the Armies with Him

Revelation 19:11-16

… There is the crown of the Church, for be it known to all men that there is no Head of the Church but Christ, and woe unto those …

The Parable of the Sower

Luke 8:4-8

… They come to join the church; they tell us a story of how they heard us preach on such-and-such an occasion, and, oh, the word was …

Jotham's Peculiar Honor

2 Chronicles 27:6

… Most painful is it to me to remember that the worst cases of backsliding and apostasy that I have ever seen in this Church, have been by old …

Love's Climax

1 John 4:10

… He did not look at the Church of God and say of all the myriads who counted not their lives dear unto them, "Herein is love," for their …

What Self Deserves

Ezekiel 36:31

… There are such in this church, there never was a church without them. They come to the communion table, and yet have no part nor lot in the …

A Simple Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… Truly, this is one reason why there is an adoption in the Romish Church of the Latin tongue and why in many other Churches there is an affectation …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… We are on safer ground when we observe with the early Church the coalition of the heathen and the Jews—"For of a truth against Your holy Child …

The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God

Luke 11:21

… We have attended our church, or we have gone to our meeting-house with much regularity. Therefore we feel that for us there is a sure hope." O …

A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living

Romans 10:5-9

… YOU see by this mourning that our church has been bereaved. I have lost a friend tender and true to me, and my heart is too full for …

Meat Indeed, and Drink Indeed

John 6:55

… It makes the feeblest Christian in the Church, when he has fed upon Christ, to be as a giant to suffer or to do! I cannot enlarge upon …

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… We have Sisters in the Church whose way of serving Christ is in the household, or by caring for the sick and the poor. Like Dorcas, they make …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… I wear a Christian name, I preach the Gospel, I am a Church officer or a Church member—how will all this bear the light of that tremendous …

The Swiftly Running Word

Psalms 147:15

… A whole Church can be revived on a sudden—no, not only a whole Church, but a group of Churches! No, not only that, but, if God wills …