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Christian hope, endurance, expectation, and encouragement
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A Greater Than Solomon
Luke 11:31
… I hope you can all say the same. I know you can if you love Him; for all renewed hearts are enamored of the sweet Lord Jesus. ‘A …
SERMON • SERMON 1646A Home Question and a Right Answer
John 6:66-69
… I shall close with my third head and consider THE ANSWER WHICH QUICK-VOICED PETER GAVE—the answer which I hope we are prepared to give to our …
SERMON • SERMON 2967The Church's Probation
Psalm 66:10
… I had hoped—there was a time when I was fool enough to hope so—that these were men who really meant what they said. But now they …
SERMON • SERMON 220God’s Barriers Against Man’s Sin
Jeremiah 5:22-23
… But there are some—I had hope for you, but ye have gone back to the ways of perdition; I have cried, “Turn ye, turn ye, why will …
SERMON • SERMON 2152Three Important Precepts
Proverbs 23:19
… day and all night while I am lying here." I said, "Well, I hope I do not keep you awake." "No," she said, "but as I am awake …
SERMON • SERMON 2746The Nature and Design of Divine Chastening
1 Corinthians 11:32
… If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also tonight, and should also bear sons; would you tarry for them till they were …
SERMON • SERMON 2968'His Great Love'
Ephesians 2:4
… What a transformation scene in answer to prayer! Notice that David does not say, "I hope that you have," but he puts it thus, "You have—You have …
SERMON • SERMON 1423A Sacred Solo
Psalm 28:7
… There are no, "ifs," no, "buts," no suspense of the soul midway between hope and fear—he speaks without a trace of hesitancy, for he tells of his …
SERMON • SERMON 538Caleb—The Man For The Times
Numbers 14:24
… Who wins the honor? Why the man that leads the forlorn hope! But there are not many who will strive to have the privilege of going first. They …
SERMON • SERMON 2988Great Pardon for Great Sin
Psalm 25:11
… Do you not see that the condition here mentioned would shut the door of hope to many? The greatness of the promise often stirs up our deepest anxieties …
SERMON • SERMON 2804Disobedience to the Gospel
Romans 10:16
… however, that you would look that fact clearly in the face, for I hope that when you have done so, the Spirit of God will convince you of …
COMMENTARYPsalm 136
Psalm 136
… The joy and hope of every household was struck down in one moment, and each family had its own wailing. The former blows had missed their aim compared …
SERMON • SERMON 1434Jesus!
Matthew 1:21
… I rejoice in that expression on my own account, for it gives me my share of the delight and leads me to hope that while I am speaking …
SERMON • SERMON 2973Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded
Matthew 6:31-33
… the earth! Imitate your blessed Lord and Master, and never despair, but hope on, hope always and even if God, Himself, should seem to forsake you, yet cry …
SERMON • SERMON 2278Feeding on the Word
Isaiah 55:2
… Tonight we shall read that precious chapter of Gospel invitation, the 55th of Isaiah, which, I hope, you all know by heart. Verse 1. Ho, everyone that thirsts …
SERMON • SERMON 1165The Christian's Motto
John 8:29
… And I hope that they, having obtained the major blessing of personal acceptance, will press forward for the further blessing of sanctification, that they may always do the …
SERMON • SERMON 2873Who Loves Christ More?
Luke 7:41-43
… cannot help loving the Lord who has done so much for her! I hope that is the case with any of you who were once drunkards, or who …
SERMON • SERMON 2904The Plumb Line
Amos 7:7
… There are many of you who come here and who have been coming for a long time who, I hope, will be led to do much more than …
SERMON • SERMON 2320The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity
Romans 1:7
… They are said to be "beloved of God." I wish that I could hope that this was true of everybody here in the fullest and most emphatic sense …
SERMON • SERMON 3181A Sermon for a Winter's Evening
John 18:18
… Yet I hope that we can truly say that we have come seeking Jesus. If this is really your heart's desire, it shall surely be fulfilled to …
SERMON • SERMON 1179Forty Years
Deuteronomy 2:7
… Joshua said, "Forty years was I when Moses sent me to spy out the land." You cannot hope to live as long as these men did and, therefore …
SERMON • SERMON 896The Coming Resurrection
John 5:28
… But that the body should rise again—that there should be another life for this corporeal frame—was a hope which is brought to light by the Revelation …
SERMON • SERMON 490Gracious Renewal
Psalm 51:10
… faith is suspended for a moment, there is a suffocation of all your hope, your joy, your love? No—of your very life! Have you not found that …
SERMON • SERMON 2599A Visit From the Lord
Psalm 106:4
… May I not hope that somebody here, if he cannot pray spiritually, will yet pray as do the young ravens who, in their nests, when they are hungry …
SERMON • SERMON 2518A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger
Mark 16:10
… my flesh also shall rest in hope." Though my body shall see corruption, yet it shall be raised in glory, and power, and incorruption, like that risen body …
SERMON • SERMON 992A New Order of Priests and Levites
Isaiah 66:21
… But does he not thereby secure to himself the most loving service? I have sometimes thought (I hope I am not censorious) as I have observed with pain …
SERMON • SERMON 2055The Trial of Your Faith
1 Peter 1:7
… We may wisely rejoice in tribulation because it works patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope. And by that way we are exceedingly enriched and our faith grows …
SERMON • SERMON 2712Bonds Which Could Not Hold
Acts 2:24
… If He had been, think what the consequences to us would have been, for, first, we should have had no assurance of our own resurrection! The blessed hope …
SERMON • SERMON 515The Sinner'S Advocate
1 John 2:1
… You know, each of you, what your own infirmity may be, at least I hope you have been watchful enough to discover it. Some sin through shortness of …
SERMON • SERMON 2620Christ's Prayer for Peter
Luke 22:32
… If faith should begin to fail, then would hope grow dim. Where is courage? It is a poor puny thing when faith is weak. Take any Grace you …
SERMON • SERMON 2687Too Good to Be Saved!
Luke 18:14
… All their hope as to the future will faint and fall into a dead swoon, as it were. So, dear Friends, you have your choice between praying and …
SERMON • SERMON 2694Grace Preferred to Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:31
… Grace looks to Christ, Grace gives us hope, Grace gives us the foretaste and pledge of Glory, and especially is it so with that sweet and blessed Grace …
SERMON • SERMON 1794"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"
Song 6:13
… They are crying evermore, like unquiet ghosts, "Return, return." Especially do they call to young souls, who are newly wedded to Jesus, in the hope that they have …
SERMON • SERMON 1789Joseph of Arimathaea
Mark 15:43-46
… They hope to be found among the victors when they divide the spoil, but they are not overly ambitious to be among the warriors while they are braving …
SERMON • SERMON 3466A Warning to Believers
Colossians 2:18
… There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father …
SERMON • SERMON 489Broad Rivers And Streams
Isaiah 33:20-23
… The army was so well equipped, so numerous, and so thoroughly well supplied with all munitions of war, that there was not the slightest hope of the escape …
SERMON • SERMON 1261Sow To Yourselves
Hosea 10:12
… I would have you well equipped for battle with the adversaries of the faith, or, at any rate, able to give a reason for the hope that is …
SERMON • SERMON 771Seeing Jesus
Hebrews 2:9
… Nor does the text say, "We shall see Him," though this is our pride and our hope, that "when He shall appear, we shall be like He, for …
SERMON • SERMON 1911Hideous Discovery
Mark 7:20-23
… I hope we may be spared such births and evolutions! According to this theory we have had some fine specimens of regenerate people of late, for we have …
SERMON • SERMON 1860"Behold, He Prays"
Acts 9:11
… had become a persecutor—can persecutors enjoy the favor of God? Can we hope for God's blessing while we are cursing God's people? How can a …