Evangelism & Soul Winning

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… a father! If you wish your servants to be saved, labor for their conversion, for they will soon be without a mistress! If you desire your brother to …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… See Isa 48:10. (2.) God not only makes affliction the occasion of converting sinners at first, but after conversion he sanctifies an afflicted state to the saints …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… It frequently happens that after conversion, God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, gives to the weaklings of the flock a period of repose during which …

His Name—The Everlasting Father

Isaiah 9:6

… He was a sailor, and as another sailor in that town had been the means of the conversion of all the sailors in a vessel that left the …

The Head of the Church

Colossians 1:18

… Truth of God from the very man who was the means of my conversion? I am bound, in candor and affection, to give all respect to him because …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… we are it was awakened; if the awakening did not end in his conversion, at any rate it made him troubled in his sins so that he could …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… our first love; if we do not plead in prayer, and seek the conversion of souls, God may take away His presence from us as He has done …

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… You have written your conversion in your spiritual trade-books as a good asset—you consider it as a very clear thing. I am afraid it is rather …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… of teaching will not only lead men to thought and conviction, but to conversion and eternal life! We also can know, because we are told so, that the …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… I not bowed my knee and prayed full many a time for the conversion of men and though prayer has power because it links man with God, yet …

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… who pretend to deep experience, that the love of Christians necessarily cools after conversion. I am sure it ought not to do so; and if it does, it …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… of address and with what He has to say! There will be innumerable conversion here! Nazareth will become the stronghold of Christianity! It will be the very metropolis …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… Where the Spirit works in the soul, we are always glad to see true conversion, and if he chooses to work in the body too in London, we …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… The Lord doth thus rejoice at the conversion of a sinner. Luke 15:7. Samuel Smith. Verse 1. "The Lord is my shepherd." I notice that some of …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… listened; and God met with him at that moment to his soul’s conversion. He went out a new man, a changed character. He who came in to …

Later Literary Works

… grace, some of them will be impressed with thoughts which may result in conversion, or in other cases afford consolation and edification.” In his Prefatory Note, “To the …

Psalm 106

Psalm 106

… My duty calls me to appease the anger of God what I may, not to revenge the sins of men; to pray for their conversion, not to work …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… preach the gospel as Paul himself; if not as much owned by the conversion of sinners, yet, in a measure, blessed of God; and, therefore, here I stand …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… Paul also after his conversion is not ashamed to call himself chiefest of all sinners, and to teach others to repent of their sins by repenting for his …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… It is our hope for the conversion of our children and servants, etc. It is the place of their education, and for the formation of helpful friendship, etc …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… It is a perversion to evil after a seeming conversion from it. Timothy Cruso. Verses 3-4. Yet did he spare his sleep, and hear the clock Number …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… How far do our dreamings come true? Before peril and after; under conviction, and after conversion; sick room, and active service. 3. The duty of fidelity to prison …

Our Public Prayer

… No man had so many seals of conversion; yea, many of his hearers thought no man, since the apostles, spake with such power. He was very short in …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… God forces no man against his nature; he doth not force the will in conversion, but graciously and powerfully inclines it. He doth never force nor incline the …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… accusations of his enemies; and the predictions which it contains of the final conversion of the whole world, and of the future judgment, are clear and explicit. Samuel …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… It is seldom prudent to publish cases of conversion among Papists, but my own observation leads me to believe that they are far more common than they were …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… hall into the Tabernacle, there to hear that which is necessary for the conversion of men. Mr. Haynes always lends me his views whenever I want them, and …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… Hundreds and hundreds of them were soon brought under deep convictions, which (as the event proved) happily ended in a sound and thorough conversion. The change was visible …

The Love Of Jesus—What It Is—None But His Loved Ones Know

Ephesians 3:19

… Let them read the Bible and see what sorts of conversion are there. There is Saul of Tarsus, there is the Philippian jailer. There are the three thousand …

Faith.

… We owe our conversion neither to the reasoning of the logician nor to the eloquence of the orator, neither to our natural betterness nor to our personal efforts …

Psalm 103

Psalm 103

… It does not say, "Who forgiveth thine iniquities previous to conversion." There is no such notion as this in Scripture. When God forgives, he forgives like himself. The …

“Thus Saith The Lord:” Or, The Book of Common Prayer Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:15

… I have often noticed in conversion, that, though sometimes a particular passage of the sermon may be quoted by the converted person as the means of enlightenment, yet …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… How little Evangelical preaching ! Conversion a lost art ; — worldliness so pervading the church that the membership is now divisible into worldly holy and wholly worldly, — and ministers into …

Eccentric Preachers

… Chapter "V.—ifoy at Conversion 175 " The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad."— Psalm cxxvi. 3. Chapter VI. — Complete in Christ 217 " Ye …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… If you would firmly believe in the conversion of the heathen remember what your fathers were when bloody rites were performed in the oak woods or amid the …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… The certain conversion of the world as opposed to modern theories. Verse 10. 1. God is "great", therefore great things may be expected of him. 2. He is …

“A New Departure”

… I read a dream, the other day, which was the means of a man’s conversion. He thought that he was going with his friend into one of …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… forth a song for the Gentiles, a triumphant hymn wherewith to celebrate the conversion of the nations to Jehovah in gospel times. It follows fitly upon the last …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… or esteem among our fellow men—but just to glorify God by the conversion of sinners through the Holy Spirit's blessing resting upon our labors! Having but …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… First, at his first conversion and soon after, before he have gotten a full persuasion of the remission of his sins. And again, in some spiritual desertion, when …