Money & Stewardship

My Own Personal Holdfast

Micah 7:7

… This assurance, "My God will hear me," is better than all the aid of mortal men and a greater wealth than the mines of India could afford you …

The Ascension of Christ

Ephesians 4:7-12

… After having shown himself for forty days amongst his beloved disciples, giving them abundant evidence that he had really risen from the dead, and enriching them by his …

The Elders Before The Throne

Revelation 4:4

… And they do today bear testimony for Christ, for to the ages to come God through His Church makes known to principalities and powers the exceeding riches of …

A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher

Matthew 3:17

… Our wealth will leave us, or we shall leave it. All that lies below must be renounced, for a film is coming over the eyes and the breath …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 13:20-21

… Other names may have small significance, but in the titles of Jesus there is a wealth of meaning. Further, our Lord is called ‘that great Shepherd of the …

On the Choice of a Text

… I had passed happily through all the early parts of divine service in the evening of the Sabbath, and was giving out the hymn before sermon. I opened …

What Is Your Life?

James 4:14

… the year, but if you reckon on a new year, you may be giving new proof of your ignorance! Even in the morning we cannot make sure of …

Exposition of the Doctrines of Grace

… Paul, “even the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of his grace.” Now, the work of redemption pre-supposes the sinful state of man, and implies a …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:131

… man of God enlarging intelligently upon what it was that he pleaded for, giving both the positive and the negative side of it—"Order my steps in Your …

The History of Sundry Fools

Psalm 107:17-20

… They had money once; they have none now. They had the means of livelihood and competence, but they have so sinned that they cannot be trusted now. They …

Bonds Which Could Not Hold

Acts 2:24

… And Satan is casting a fatal spell over the professing church itself, so that it is getting worldly and is giving up its primitive simplicity. Sometimes I am …

The Secret of Love to God

1 John 4:19

… as rich as the former one! and when you have brought all that wealth to the surface—and that may take your whole lifetime—someone else may sink …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… As kings display their skill and power and wealth in the erection of their capitals, so would the Lord reveal the splendour of his attributes in the restoration …

A Sermon to the Lord's Little Children

1 John 2:12

… They are strong in faith, giving glory to God, mighty in prayer, vehement in action, bold in testimony! May the Lord muster among our hosts a grand army …

A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth

Luke 18:13

… To imagine that an awful sense of sin constituted a claim upon mercy would be like giving a premium to great sin. Certain seekers think, "I have never …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… I have brought no money to pay for my soul, for there is the ticket; the money has been paid long ago. This is written in thy word …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… I suppose that John alludes to his Gospel when he says, "I have written," and now, a little later, he writes his Epistle and says, "I write"—giving …

Who Can Tell?

Jonah 3:9

… Some sick man has tried every system of medicine—he has spent nearly all his wealth, and now he has come to the last stage. He is trying …

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." If you have no merit, if you have no claims, still come. Free Grace sounds its golden …

John's First Doxology

Revelation 1:5

… We read of the peculiar treasures of kings and we have a choice wealth of Grace. He has made us, even now, among the sons of men to …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… At last these earnest men have let fall the blessed secret and spoken of the love of God in giving His only-begotten Son and they have begun …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… He is greedy for money, so he sins by covetousness, which is idolatry. He does not go and get drunk, for that is an expensive sin, and he …

The Big Gates Wide Open

John 6:37

… Ho, everyone that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… One is sometimes afraid, in giving explanations, that one may do what a good Divine did with Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" which he edited with explanatory notes …

Threefold Sanctification

1 Corinthians 1:2

… That is, by giving life to that which is good, and by sending death to that which is evil in the man. Mortification, whereby the lusts of the …

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… The merchants who prosper in this world are those who do their business with all their hearts and watch for wealth with eagerness. The half-hearted man is …

The Lad's Loaves in the Lord's Hands

John 6:11

… Was he a little peddler who thought that he could make some money by selling a few loaves and fishes and had he nearly sold out? Or was …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… Poverty may be a richer state for you than wealth! There may be something in your character which cannot be perfected except by suffering and labor—and it …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… It is his living wealth, but it is also the shepherd's care, it is his constant anxiety. Ask a shepherd what he prizes most and he tells …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… Ambition for position, love of pleasure, desire to please, joy in wealth will invade and conquer a province of our hearts. Oh, base ingratitude which allows us to …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… I recollect a minister once telling me that he attended the bedside of a very proud woman, of considerable wealth, and she said to him, "Do you think …

Seeing and Testifying

1 John 4:14

… No difference of color, no difference of race, no difference of wealth, no difference of talent, no difference of standing and rank, no difference of education and attainment …

Caleb—The Man For The Times

Numbers 14:24

… If you should take a bear in a cage into a town, men will pay their money to see it, but let it loose among them and they …

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… David might pray about it and think about it, and plan about it and save his money for it, but the Lord would not have it so. It …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… Good men are sure to have out their prayers either in money, or in money's worth, as they say—in that very thing, or a better.— John …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… If it had been better for you, upon the whole, to have been rolling in wealth, you would have been. If it had been better for you never …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… 1 : "Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." There was a large congregation on each occasion, £60 was contributed towards the funds of a …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… In Him you see One who divested Himself of all His Glory that He might save the guilty—who came down upon earth, not seeking wealth and fame …

First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace

Hebrews 7:2

… Whenever you are enjoying the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ, please remember that He never gives you any part of salvation without giving it to you righteously …

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… And yet he said if the giving up of a jot of the Truth of God could have given him his liberty and enabled him to go back …