The Church

God’s Barriers Against Man’s Sin

Jeremiah 5:22-23

… Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the ramp for the service of one’s country, would excite astonishment in the church for the service of our …

A Plain Man's Sermon

Leviticus 22:21

… If a good intention is not there, according to the dictates of his own church, it is all good for nothing, so that your souls all hang upon …

The Unwearied Runner

Isaiah 40:31

… These are the mighties in the hosts of the Son of David—the flower of the Church militant! They are, under God, the strength and hope of the …

The Silken Fetter

Hosea 3:5

… whole life to Jesus' love, what a gain would this be to the Church! If some young man whom God has favored with special mercy would say, "Here …

Untitled Sermon

Psalm 119:144

… Is not this a very proper and blessed prayer for aspiring minds in the Church of God, of whom I trust there are many present? Such men are …

The Blessing of Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… Loyal subjects delight in the royal law. "His commandments are not grievous." I said to one who came to join the church the other day, "I suppose you …

'Love and I' A Mystery

John 17:26

… But the world will not learn it, and a large part of the professing church, which is nothing better than the world wrongfully named with Christ’s name …

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… It was a singular instance of God's Providential judgment that Cranmer and Ridley, two bishops of the Church who condemned this Baptist to die—that she said …

'Life for a Look'

Isaiah 45:22

… I have known him trouble poor souls with questions about difficult doctrines, or various forms of church government, or about the disputes that arise even between Christian people …

Who Loves Christ More?

Luke 7:41-43

… Possibly, we may hear our Master saying to us, as He said to the angel of the church of Ephesus, "I have somewhat against you, because you have …

Forgiveness, Freedom, Favor

Deuteronomy 15:2

… See how God calls them, not, "the poor," but, "your poor" and, "your needy." The Church of God should feel a peculiar property in the poor and needy …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… and though they call him the head of the church, he made a very poor head of the church just then! He drew a sword and began to …

Forty Years

Deuteronomy 2:7

… Him? He has blessed the work of our hands so that a vast Church has been gathered and many smaller ones have sprung from it. One enterprise has …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… the Father with us and, at last, come "to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge …

God's Love to the Saints

1 John 3:16

… Some of the old people came tottering before the judge because they thought that they would not be so much missed from the Church as the younger ones …

The Sinner'S Advocate

1 John 2:1

… What if I add to all this that you have so sinned as to bring a scandal upon the name of God, upon His Church, and upon His …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… We have a high and noble honor to fight for Jehovah and, standing out as the soldiers of the Cross—the Church militant of the Divine One—we …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… If Jesus saves not His Church, He is not a perfect Christ—He is a maimed and wounded Savior! My Brothers and Sisters, the Lord Jesus Christ has …

A Great Gospel for Great Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15-17

… Some are the chief of sinners in the same way as the apostle Paul, for they have persecuted the church of God. Paul, who was then called Saul …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… As the pastor of so large a church as this, I am constantly brought into contact with all sorts of human sorrow. Frequently it is poverty,—poverty too …

Our Lord's Trial before the Sanhedrin

Mark 14:64

… But the first fathers of the Church set forth the same Truths in a less theological fashion. If they dwell little upon Justification by Faith they were wonderfully …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… And all the powers and princes that arise in this world, God can use for the good of His Church! All the nations, kingdoms and powers there are …

Bit and Bridle—How To Escape Them

Psalm 32:8

… I hope we shall not need Church discipline, or Providential discipline, because we have been trained to joyful, watchful, exact obedience. Oh, that it were so! Teach me …

The Very Bold Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

… You have sittings in the Tabernacle, or else you attend at some thoroughly evangelical Church and you say to yourselves, "If anybody will get to Heaven we shall …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… Though there is in the great Church of God a sweet community of delight in the Lord, yet each Believer has his own special delight. All Israel could …

Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble

Lamentations 3:56

… You call upon God in public and you sit down and think that your confused prayer was of no service to the Church. You know not in what …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… You know as a church that I have not scrupled to indulge large ideas of what we might do for God and we have accomplished all that we …

The Woman Which Was a Sinner

Luke 7:37-38

… Young converts maintain, by God's Grace, the warmth of the blood which circulates in the Church's veins. Old Churches generally become diseased Churches when they cease …

One More Cast of the Great Net

Joel 2:32

… The Holy Spirit, who then came down to earth, has never returned! He is still in the midst of the Church, not working physical wonders, but performing moral …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… I saw this week, one whom many of you greatly respect, the former pastor of this Church, Mr. James Smith, of Cheltenham—[since departed, to be with Christ …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… Christ is the mirror of the church. What the head endured every member of the body will also have to endure in its measure. Let us read the …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… another and a wiser person replied, "Oh, if you go into many a Church and Chapel, you can see the thing done!" When a man does not speak …

"My Lord and My God!"

John 20:28

… anxious, the weak in faith make up a very considerable part of the Church—I do not know that they are in the majority, but they are certainly …

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… Last Lord's-Day morning was given to the fathers of the Church. Let this be given to the beginners in the Divine Life. May the Holy Spirit …

A Seasonable Exhortation

1 Peter 1:13

… This was not good enough and, therefore, he became a Plymouth Brother! And after that he went to the church from which he originally set out. When I …

The Weaned Child

Psalm 131:2

… Let us do anything for Jesus, counting it the highest honor, even, to be a doormat inside the Church of God, if we might be such a thing …

Number 2400—or, "Escape for Your Life!"

Genesis 19:17

… sins of the age! The Church of God at large would have been more separate from the world if the little church in each man's house had …

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… You first, as it were, tapped at the church's windowpane very gently and you were afraid, so you stepped back again. But all the world was cold …

Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7

… They think that if they attend the parish church or the dissenting chapel and subscribe regularly to religious and philanthropic societies, that is all that is required of …

How Can I Obtain Faith?

Romans 10:17

… To every person, whoever he may be, though nursed in the bosom of the church, and introduced to that church by the most solemn ritual, we are bound …