The Church

The Sower

Matthew 13:3

… If you have done your work in that place, go forth to sow elsewhere! Oh, that the Church of Christ would go forth into heathen lands! Oh, that …

Proclamation of Acceptance and Vengeance

Isaiah 61:2

… Substitution is as much a standing or falling article in the Church as the doctrine of Justification by Faith, itself. My Brothers and Sisters, there would never have …

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… Nothing but faith can save the present unbelieving church. Nothing but firm faith in the grand old Doctrines of Grace and in the ever-living and unchanging God …

Self-righteousness—a Smoldering Heap of Rubbish

Isaiah 65:5

… These persons, too, even when they do not join the Christian Church but only worship or seem to worship with Christians, are very apt to think that they …

A Cure For Care

1 Peter 5:7

… Oh, for your own sake, and for your children's sake, for Christ's sake and for His Church's sake, I pray you spoil not the fair …

An Instructive Truth

Jeremiah 10:23

… This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord." The most powerful enemy of the Church can do nothing without God's permission! God can put a …

Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation

Romans 3:25

… I will not say that, but I do know some churches where there has not been an addition to the church by the stretch of ten or a …

The Claims of God

Psalm 100:3

… In Roger de Wendover's, "Flowers of History," an ancient Saxon chronicle, we read of a Saxon king who, riding through a forest, came upon a little Church …

Revelation and Conversion

Psalm 19:7

… He had been for years a member of the Church, but he grew cold and ceased to attend the means of Grace and, at last, he had to …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… It is in the Church of England articles. It is in the confessions of all sorts of Protestant Christians, except those who are avowedly Arminian, but how little …

Love's Medicines and Miracles

Isaiah 38:17

… And what is the way to raise you out of that horrible state? Is it not a way of love? When the Laodicean Church was neither cold nor …

Observing the King's Word

1 Kings 20:33

… I wish that all our church-members were present at all our Prayer Meetings and on all occasions when work is to be done for Christ. What a …

Redemption and Its Claims

1 Corinthians 6:20

… But I will deny myself many lawful things for His sake and the sake of His Church, for I am not my own. I will deny myself even …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… A prayer for our ministers, and for the security, unity, and happiness of the church. Verse 14. The prosperous Church. There— 1. Labour is cheerfully performed. 2. The …

A Singular Title and a Special Favor

Psalm 59:10

… O Brothers and Sisters, we need in this Church men and women who habitually live as seeing Him who is invisible. We need those who will never rely …

The Joy of Redemption

Isaiah 44:23

… are nothing better than congregations of idolaters, such as the Church of Rome and even the Greek Church—the one with her images and her relics, and the …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… I have been a member of a Christian Church for so many years. I am not like So-and-So, and So-and-So who lately failed. You …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… Trial in the Christian church is the Lord's fining pot, which is never off the fire. It has this excellent effect, that it separates the precious from …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… I look with great thankfulness to God upon the condition of the Roman Catholic Church now. That infallibility dogma I believe will be, under God, the means of …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… The blood of the missionary becomes the seed of the Church." I do not doubt that it is so and, Beloved, if you and I can live wholly …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… All this you have a share in, the least in the Church, the poorest in the family, the humblest Believer—this is all true of you—He will …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… A lack of depth in the inner life accounts for most of the doctrinal error in the church. Sound conviction of sin, deep humiliation on account of it …

The Rocky Fortress and Its Inhabitant

Isaiah 33:15

… While all goes well with the Church of God, you cannot separate the vile from the precious, nor pluck up the tares from among the wheat, nor cast …

The Death of Christ for His People

1 John 3:16

… But there were some in the Church who were very tender of conscience and who said, "If we eat meat which has been offered to idols, we thereby …

Heart Disease Curable

Isaiah 61:1

… The world offers no room for repentance, but in the Church, all are penitents! When Jesus forms the center of a Church, there will be a ring of …

A Procession of Cross-bearers

Mark 10:21

… Christ instituted bishops, that is, overseers, but never prelates! He never had any idea of setting some men in His Church over the heads of others, but He …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… They can go to much greater lengths than the Lord Jesus would approve and yet they are members of the Church—pretty talkative members, too. May God improve …

Saving Knowledge

John 4:10

… Dear Hearer, may I ask you to look to your own soul now? You are a Church member. You have been considered to be a Christian from your …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… Young people are apt to think, "So-and-So is a member of the Church and he is never very precise. If a lukewarm profession satisfies him, why …

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… Before I dwell upon the personal experience of Believers who are here present, I would remind you of the experience of the Church of God as it is …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… There came into my chamber an honored elder of this Church, who in broken accents told me, "Our beloved Brother, Henry Olney, is dead." He is my near …

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… TO THE CHURCH AT THE TABERNACLE: BELOVED FRIENDS—I write you because my heart prompts me to do so and because many of you desire it. We have …

How A Man's Conduct Comes Home To Him

Proverbs 14:14

… There are, first, apostates, those who unite themselves with the Church of Christ and, for a time, act as if they were subjects of a real change of …

Love Thy Neighbour

Matthew 19:19

… Are you a preacher? Preach in a surly way and in a surly tone to your church; a pretty church you will make of it before long! Are …

The Meat and Drink of the New Nature

John 6:55

… The Times pronounced the funeral oration of the Evangelical party, but it is not dead, even, within the Established Church and certainly not among Dissenters! Let us, however …

Is It Nothing To You?

Lamentations 1:12

… is any sorrow like unto My sorrow." Therefore in all ages of the Church this has been a favorite text—not as directly meaning what we shall say …

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… cries out against her and the curse of God rests upon her! The Church of Rome can never again be put in the ranks of Christian churches! God …

The Turning Of Job's Captivity

Job 42:10

… His Church shall always have an afflicted and poor people in her midst. Let us all take warning, for we, also, may be tried and cast down before …

Rahab

Hebrews 11:31

… I commend Rahab's faith because while she was thoroughly active, she was active in the way in which she could best serve the Church of God, and …

Your Personal Salvation

1 Peter 1:9-12

… Do you not know that we still have miracles in the Christian Church? Scoffers come to us and say, "Work a miracle and we will believe you." We …