The Church

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… I believe that this is one of the lessons least known throughout the Church and in the world it is not known at all. That God is God …

Walking Humbly With God

Micah 6:8

… Then, the thought that you would even be a member of the Church of Christ seemed too good for you! If anyone had said, "You will be numbered …

Everyday Religion

Galatians 2:20

… It was a rule of the first Church and it ought to be one of the present—"If any man will not work neither let him eat." It …

Mysterious Visits

… The Romish church says much about the real presence; meaning thereby, the corporeal presence of the Lord Jesus. The priest who celebrates mass tells us that he believes …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… in his conversion, and the richer the consolation that shall come to the Church, as it will be to us a greater proof of the power of the …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… And they are always here, too, in the Church and around it, dishonoring us by their evil behavior. Not only in the great congregations, but even in little …

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… Can it really be true that courts of law and assemblies of the church discuss the question of men’s turning to the east or to the west …

Sight For Those Who See Not

John 9:39

… Neither will the Gospel be deprived of its witnesses, nor the Church be despoiled of her helpers, nor the Lord be robbed of the revenue of Glory which …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… Their apostasy shall be to their own loss rather than to the hurt of Jesus and his church; and, sad though it be to see the lamps of …

The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind

John 3:8

… But he cannot tell you why the weathercock on yonder church steeple turned this morning from south-west to due east. He cannot tell me why it is …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… whom is this spoken? To sinners? No, no, it is spoken to the Church of Laodicea, which was "neither cold nor hot." Her Lord was ready to spit …

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… The Church and the world are to become one—and saints and sinners are to blend together in one universal round of play-going. We are actually urged …

Salvation by Knowing the Truth

1 Timothy 2:3

… You must add to all this the ceremonies of our church. You must be particular and precise in receiving blessing only through the appointed channel of the apostolical …

Future Punishment A Fearful Thing

Hebrews 10:31

… We have many, now, who are members of this Church walking in holiness and in the fear of God. They listened to sermons upon the softer and more …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… I will praise You in the Church of God, for I will search out other Believers, and I will tell them what God has done for me. I …

The Law Written in the Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… Man revolts yet more and more—so stubborn is he that the more he is commanded, the more he rebels! The Decalogue upon your Church walls and in …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… In the last verses the slandered saint represents the condition of the persecuted church, looks away to God and pleads for rescue from his cruel enemies, and for …

Incidents of Home and School Life

… There are church-members who used to be unkind, covetous, censorious, bad-tempered, egotistical, everything that was hard and stony; are they so now? Have they not mellowed …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden

… Spurgeon's sermons were having a phenomenal sale both at home and abroad, and the generous arrangements of the publishers, together with the increased income from the church …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… I have often heard men urge, as a plea for remaining in a corrupt Church, that they would lose the influence they had obtained in its midst by …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… He was excommunicated from Church fellowship and properly so. But afterwards he became very penitent and he went about the streets like a man who really should die …

Substitution

2 Corinthians 5:21

… We read in the New Testament, that “the Church (that is, the people of God) is Christ’s bride.” We all know that, according to the law, the …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… of Jordan?" Some time ago, you will remember, a Prince of the Catholic Church departed—where did he go? I am not versed in such matters and should …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… The sheep have been eating in these pastures ever since Christ had a church on earth, and yet they are as full of grass as ever. The sheep …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… Certainly, many only go to meeting to stare about. "Attend your church, the parson cries, To church each fair one goes ; The old ones go to close their …

Psalm 31

Psalm 31

… And this is the great loss of the church, that by means like these many are held back from goodness! which the psalmist lamenting says, I became a …

I Will Give You Rest

… sin, sorrow, the worldliness of professors, the prevalence of error in the Church, and so on. Often, we are like a tired child, who can hold up his …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… At our last church meeting, a brother, in giving his experience of how he was brought to God, said he could not feel his guilt, his heart was …

Under His Shadow

… The outline of it is taken from one who will never complain of me, for to the great loss of the Church she has left these lower choirs …

Jesus Asleep on a Pillow

… How often I have worried my poor brain about my great church, until I have come to my senses, and then I have said to myself, “How foolish …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… This I consider to be the most simple meaning of this passage which shows that God represses and restrains the raging of the enemies of the Church, who …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… This was observed in the primitive church; but the times in different places were various. The old Psalter gives this a curious turn: "At even I sall tell …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… That is, every one of the elect may and ought to learn in thy church the conduct and proceedings of thy providence towards those that were thine. John …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… Unity in a church should assuredly excite like gratitude. "Thou hast made me the head of the heathen; a people whom I have not known shall serve me …

Hope for Your Future

… We thought, then, we would push the Church before us and drag the world behind us! What marvels we were going to do! Yes, and we did many …

Early Religious Impressions

… not long ask, — ‘Who can find a virtuous woman?’ He would join the church, and find himself at once among a band of holy women, whose adornment is …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… Written for the benefit of God's Church. By T. S. . . . London, 1621. (8vo. This exposition is upon the first two verses of the Psalm only.)

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… Some of the humblest of the godly are immortalized, their names are imperishably fragrant in the church, while of the ablest of infidels and blasphemers hardly their names …

Eccentric Preachers

… Sebmon yXl.—The Church of Christ ....... 134 " And I vrill make them and the places round about my hill a bless- ing ; and I will cause the shower …

Thy Redeemer

Isaiah 41:14

… I will help thee! And now you hear the Saviour speaking of his church. “Betrothed to me ere time began, I have taken thee into union with my …