Grace

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… This day we thank God for his useful life, and ask for grace to imitate it. Before he closed his eyes in death he left a text of …

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… I would today, if I were not sure that God's Word is true and that the precious Doctrines of Grace are the very revelation of Heaven, renounce …

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… often to be repeated that ties of blood are no guarantees of Divine Grace. You may be the wife of the saintliest man of God and yet be …

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

… is the inward and the spiritual grace; so that there is nothing forced and unnatural in bringing nature to illustrate grace; it was ordained of God for that …

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

… BENBRIDGE “Oh, how many die at the gallows as martyrs in the devil’s cause for felonies, rapes, and murders! He might withdraw His grace, and leave thee …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… Here is a woman who conquered Christ! Let us go by her rule, and we will conquer Christ, too, by His own Divine Grace. I. In the first …

“Helensburgh House” and Garden

… deeply grieved over ; — but if I have at all succeeded in magnifying the grace of God in him, it is simply because the Lord, for His own glory …

Lecture IV: Where Can We Find Anecdotes And Illustrations?

… is the inward and the spiritual grace; so that there is nothing forced and unnatural in bringing nature to illustrate grace; it was ordained of God for that …

The Dove'S Return To The Ark

Genesis 8:9

… I draw a distinction forevermore between that which men without Divine Grace may do and that which gracious men may do. The graceless man stands somewhat on the …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… How oft did the prophet speak unto God when the wicked did falsely accuse him; how did he make his moan at the throne of grace unto God …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… It is natural that this should be so, the bestowment of that Divine Influence being an act of Sovereign Grace; the history of the progress of Christianity presents …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… Learn to endure hardness as a good soldier of the Cross so that when the last conflict comes it may find you able, by the Grace of God …

Psalm 139

Psalm 139

… Think and be thankful, in a different case, For there is grace in the desire of grace. — John Byron, 1691-1763. Verse 24. The way everlasting. Way of …

“Forward!”

… You must go forward in personal attainments, growing in gifts and in grace, in fitness for the work of God, and conformity to the image of Jesus. The …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… When I at table take my place, Whatever be the meat, I first do scold — and then say grace, If so disposed to eat. Too fat, too lean …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… of His might The hearts of rebels fail. "Anon, arrayed in robes of grace, He rides the trampled plain. With pity beaming in His face, And mercy in …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… I fear me— may God remove the fear by his grace— I fear me there are such. “Lord, is it I?” let each one say— “Lord, is it …

I Will Give You Rest

… It is not difficult to tell which of them would be the more likely to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is …

Under His Shadow

… the Psalm now open before us, David was banished from the means of grace to a dry and thirsty land, where no water was. What is much worse …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… He then encouraged them to believe that, if they desired this grace, they could have it; and, lastly, concluded by showing how he himself had found this ‘living …

First Literary Friends

… From whatsoever cause it springs, whether from force of native character, or from a vigour superinduced upon that basis by the grace of God, there is that in …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… of these new plantations, but they went to other nations, assisted by the grace and powerful working of the Holy Spirit. As soon as they began to preach …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… Watts, know that the last verse begins — ‘Just like His nature is His grace, All sov’reign and all free ; “ and when the minister had read these two …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… must be converted; then the wicked would repent, and the just grow in grace. “If I come, I shall not mind preaching two evenings in Stambourne if you …

Jesus, The Gread Object of Astonishment

… all could see what He was, and knew that He was full of grace and truth. We are, therefore, not surprised, when we devoutly consider our Lord’s …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… They all sing sweetly there, for they are all perfect ; and they sing all the more loudly, because they all owe that perfection to free and sovereign grace …

Memories of my Father

… The matchless grace and goodness, manifested in the home, found their counterpart in his public career, and proved how completely the spirit of the Master permeated the whole …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… will for the salvation of our fallen race, and is a proclamation of grace and pardon to the very chief of sinners, will exclaim, “What nonsense!” Such was …

The Long Illness

… Spurgeon's, but who remembered him at the throne of grace in his season of suffering. Many of the clergy of the Established Church, with their congregations, were …

Psalm 134

Psalm 134

… represented as the God of nature; in the second, as the God of grace. When I contemplate him as the Creator of the universe, there is abundant proof …

Love's Transformations—a Communion Meditation

John 14:28

… Somebody near you will display more Grace and more gifts than you. What then? If you love Jesus you will rejoice that it should be so! Do you …

Ploughing the Rock

… But is there not a way of saving men without the grace of God? The Lord Jesus did not say so; but he said, “He that believeth and …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… out all the evidence we can find expressive of a real work of grace in the soul, and a Divine call to publish the tidings of salvation, the …

Preaching in the Open Air

… true, my arched cathedral is not waterproof, and other showers besides those of grace have sometimes descended upon the congregation; but this has its advantages, for it makes …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… This matter also we have believingly commended to the God of all grace, who will surely not let His servants want. Dear father has been in many straits …

Communion With Christ And His People

… Christ’s word of grace is very near you, it is on your tongue; let it go down into your inmost soul. Say to your Saviour, “I know …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… Oh! I could weep for joy (as I certainly am doing now) to think that my beloved can so well testify to a work of grace in her …

Alas! I Can Do Nothing!

… time, if he is really sincere, his weakness can be met by divine grace. The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man …

Psalm 52

Psalm 52

… Try but this course, and try whether the spring of thy grace will not come on apace. David gives an account how he came to stand and flourish …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… Certainly, I have never met with a text which mentions prominence of bone as an evidence of grace. If so, “The Living Skeleton” should have been exhibited, not …