The Church

The Echo

Psalm 27:8

… It is said that in the early Church the emblem for Mark was an ox to signify service. And it is very singular, whether that is so or …

"Waters To Swim In"

… But at first the stream was very shallow, for the whole Church could meet in one upper room. Even after the Pentecostal increase it was but as a …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… The house is changed from an hospital to a church, from an infirmary to a banqueting hall. The Lord himself seems changed, too, if chancre can come over …

The Alter

Matthew 23:19

… If you suppose that there is any more acceptableness to God in a Church or a Cathedral than in any public hall or in the open air, you …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… I believe that with all their faults they are the best people in the world, and that, although the church of God is not perfect, yet she is …

Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved

Jeremiah 8:20

… I am a member of a Church and am not saved." Are you obliged to say that, any of you? Be honest! Do not cover up the truth …

Who Is This?

Jeremiah 30:21

… Moved by inconceivable, immeasurable love and counting all the cost, He devoted Himself to the supreme effort. "Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it." Of His …

The Best Beloved

Song 5:16

… Yet I do believe, and my heart prompts me to say so, that the highest praise of every ransomed soul and of the entire Christian church should be …

The Drawings Of Divine Love

John 6:44

… If we have crept into the Church unworthily, He knows all about us. He knows us better than we know ourselves! Oh, that we might be very careful …

Perfection in Christ

Colossians 1:28

… It says, "You are all fair, My love; there is no spot in you." That is Jesus Christ talking to His Church. She says, "I am black, because …

Direction In Dilemma

Exodus 14:13

… I desire to be found in that posture with regard to my own position in Christ's Church and the work that the Master would have me perform …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… No child of God may dare to worship a picture, an image, or anything that is visible! I would like to break out of every church window every …

Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners

1 Kings 20:31-34

… I know you have been to Church twice every Sunday for the last few years, but away with that, away with that—trust not to that. I know …

A Message from God for Thee

Lamentations 4:22

… They can no longer rest in their Church-goings and Chapel-goings. A formal, notional religion would once satisfy them, but they find no rest for the sole …

Consider Before You Fight

Luke 14:31

… He is a member of this Church, I am sorry to say. I never went into a Church where he was not a member. I have tried to …

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… Thus it is by the will of the Father, carried out by the Son and applied by the Holy Spirit that the Church of God is regarded as …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… In these days certain would-be wise men are laboriously attempting to constitute a church without Christ and to set forth a salvation without a Savior. But their …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… People go to Church and say, "Lead us not into temptation," and then they know where temptation is to be found and they go straight to it! You …

The God of Bethel

Genesis 31:13

… This is the house and the household of God, even the Church of the living God! Not now to insist upon that meaning of the word Bethel, or …

'The Time of Jacob's Trouble'

Jeremiah 30:7

… Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it." Christ's Church shall live and flourish when her persecutors lie in ignominious graves! Herod thought that …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… He lives, He ever lives! No sound of greater gladness can be heard in the Christian Church than this—"The Lord is risen, the Lord is risen indeed …

Christians, and Their Communion With God

Isaiah 26:8

… And for the great world and the one Church of Christ in it, our cry is, "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake as …

A Sermon For Gleaners

Ruth 2:15

… I know we have many in this Church who are glad to eat the sweets, and feed upon the fat things of the kingdom, when they are brought …

Watching to See

Habakkuk 2:1-4

… To which I may add that it is often a solitary attitude. "I will stand my watch." The Church has gone to sleep, but, "I will stand my …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… What would I be if Divine Grace did its best with me? I could only be a humble unknown member of the Church drawing greatly upon His resources …

Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:9

… You may do what you will, join what Church you please, take the Lord's Supper, be baptized, go through severe penance, or give all your goods to …

The Free Agency of Christ

Mark 8:22-25

… Yet I have often seen that absurdity in the Church of God! One is depressed because his experience is not quite like his neighbor's. Another because he …

"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"

Galatians 2:20

… We are getting old, together, and so there are more dying than there used to be when the young people first joined the Church. Well, I shall soon …

Folly of Unbelief

Luke 24:25

… George Muller, whom may God long preserve, says that one of his objects in journeying about, at his advanced age, from church to church, is to try and …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… So much of it has got into the church that many will not see things that are plain as a pikestaff. They will not see, for truth might …

Prayer Perfumed with Praise

Philippians 4:6

… Amen.” David, who is the great tutor and exemplar of the church as to her worship, being at once her poet and her preacher, takes care in almost …

Withholding Corn

Proverbs 11:26

… The Romish Church for many years kept the sacred Scriptures in an unknown tongue and resisted all attempts to translate the Book of God into the vulgar language …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… But at last he said to himself, "I must join the Church." I fancy that he was 88 when he was baptized and he was so happy with …

The Honored Servant

Proverbs 27:18

… The same rule is to be observed in matters of church government and discipline, in the ordinances of the Lord's house, in the Truths of God to …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… one say, "Yes, for I have done it myself." In a slothful Church, a Church that has no faith in God—and there are many such—the question …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… The tendency is to think that, though you are in the Church, you can be in the world, too, and that you belong, in a measure, to both …

The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant

Matthew 8:7

… Let the Church be a healer like her Lord—at least if she cannot pour fourth virtue from the hem of her garment, nor "say in a word …

The Hiding of Moses by Faith

Hebrews 11:23

… The Church established by Law will always enjoy a vast prestige because it has royalty for its head and the State at its back. To me its connection …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… We ought to look at the consequences of our speech to all others, and especially to the church of God. Woe unto the man by whom offence cometh …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Surely we were sent here on purpose that we might take part with the great Head of the Church by suffering for the promotion of the Divine purposes …