The Gospel

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… By what means shall they be brought into contact with Christ and a Savior become the Savior of their souls? The constant aim of the Gospel ministry should …

Early Wedded Life

… for my dear husband earnestly longed to help young men to preach the gospel, and from our slender resources we had to contribute somewhat largely to the support …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… See what honest confession and full forgiveness will do! The gospel of substitution makes him to be our refuge who otherwise would have been our judge. Thou shalt …

Under His Shadow

… We may say of their religion as of the law, that it made nothing perfect; but under the gospel there is something finished, and that something is the …

On the Voice

… I maintain that the best notes a man’s voice is capable of should be given to the proclamation of the gospel, and these are such as nature …

Psalm 92

Psalm 92

… Instrumental music, the more I think of it, appears with increasing evidence to be utterly unsuited to the genius of the gospel dispensation. There was a glare, if …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… I have cursed it all, as Paul did those who preach “another gospel.” Then we drove to St. John Lateran, “the mother of all churches,” and I shall …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… I am sound as a bell, right hearty and well, and I’m off to my place, the gospel to tell. “Pull both the boys’ ears, and give …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… Hence the need of divine grace and of the gospel. Verse 8. The snail like course of ungodly men. Their sin destroys their property, health, time, influence, life …

Psalm 74

Psalm 74

… In these days men are using axes and sledgehammers against the gospel and the church. Glorious truths, far more exquisite than the goodliest carving, are cavilled over and …

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… But as the gospel worship and appointments are a more spiritual, pleasant, and reasonable service, and need them less, so in the gospel institution we find no footsteps …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… Righteousness received by gospel light is in reality the secret foundation of the believer's hope. God's covenant of grace is our strong consolation, because he who …

Psalm 3

Psalm 3

… when he is assured of his peace with God? This peace of the gospel, and sense of the love of God in the soul, doth so admirably conduce …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… If they refuse it, and resist thy gospel, let them shut themselves out of it. "He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have …

Hope for Your Future

… You heard a Gospel preacher and perhaps he spoiled the Queen's English—but you did not care a bit about that. You were hungry and you minded …

Pure Fun

… we preach Christ crucified.’ Let any, who like to do so, proclaim ‘another gospel, which is not another;’ ‘but we preach Christ crucified.'” Among the most memorable sermons …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… He was able to read, so as to make fair use of his Bible and hymn-book, and he had a heartfelt knowledge of the gospel. It is …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… Yea, read observantly the histories of the Gospel, and well weigh who they were to whom Christ in the days of his flesh afforded succour, and you shall …

Early Religious Impressions

… We even know some Sunday-school teachers who cautiously avoid mentioning the great doctrines of the gospel, because they think the children are not prepared to receive them …

Memories of my Father

… If you do not preach the gospel, you must help me to do it, and make money for Jesus. With my two sons at my side, I shall …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… Often when gold comes in the gospel goes out; but it is not so with the blessed man. Prosperity does not destroy the holiness of his life, or …

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

Ezekiel 11:15

… Some have said, “Why not go on preaching the gospel to sinners?” I do preach the gospel to sinners, as earnestly as ever I did in my life …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… The very marrow of the gospel of free grace. By salvation is meant deliverance of every kind; not only the salvation which finally lands us in glory, but …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… It was an instance of wilful ignorance and bigotry when the Jews raged against the preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. Perverted Judaism may be exclusive, but …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… Our God is not to be worshipped as one among many good and true beings, but as God alone; and his gospel is not to be preached as …

The Long Illness

… Spurgeon stood for the last time on that platform which, for thirty years, had been his pulpit throne, and from which he had proclaimed the gospel to at …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… no sneer too contemptuous, to fling at the preacher who boldly declared the gospel of the grace of God, as he had himself learned it at the cross …

Grace for the Guilty

Isaiah 44:22

… They have imagined that by beating a Hell drum in the ears of men, they could make them believe the Gospel. That by the terrific sights and sounds …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… I think in a land like this, with an open Bible, with a preached Gospel, with the Presence of the Spirit of God, I need not address such …

The Principal Wheat

… We should spend ourselves for the spread of the gospel. A Christian man ought to lay himself out to serve Jesus. I hate to see a professing man …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… Jesus said to His disciples, “Go ye therefore, and preach the gospel to every creature: he that believeth, and is immersed, shall be saved; he that believeth not …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… Old acquaintances, and ministers of the gospel, had a specially hearty reception from him. Even the clergyman, who claimed to be " a friend of more than twenty years …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… There were cities of refuge under the law, God is our refuge-city under the gospel. As the ships when vexed with tempest make for harbour, so do …

Communion With Christ And His People

… In the essentials of the gospel we think alike: in our thoughts of God, of Christ, of sin, of holiness, we keep step; in our intense desire to …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… Alas, for my vain and foolish heart! I was not spiritually-minded enough to understand his earnest presentation of the gospel, and his powerful pleading with sinners; but …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… This is true of us in a measure, but not altogether, for now that immortality and life are brought to light by the gospel, death has changed its …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… For there is not any sin forbidden in the law or gospel which is not spoken by the tongue, as well as thought in the heart, or done …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

… So he hath showed his works of power to his people in Gospel times, as the miracles of Christ, his resurrection from the dead, redemption by him, and …

Our Place—at Jesus' Feet

Luke 7:38

… But Gospel repentance does not spring from legal terror. Gracious tears are wept at Jesus' feet. Oh, if you would have your heart broken till the rock shall …

'Peace! Perfect Peace!'

Isaiah 26:3

… Because of this deep-seated conviction, that great Gospel Truth, "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin," became a heavenly message, sweeter than …