Preaching & Ministry

The Minister's Plea

Philippians 1:19

… Apart from Divine help, the enterprise of a Christian minister is only worthy of ridicule. Apart from the power of the Eternal Spirit, the things which the preacher …

The First Sermon in the Tabernacle

Acts 5:42

… He cannot fail, then, to be a good doctrinal, experimental, practical preacher, who preaches Christ. Did you ever know a congregation grow less spiritual by a minister preaching …

First Literary Friends (Continued)

… This young Baptist minister's preaching created a great sensation in Bristol, a short time since, and his visits to other places have excited intense interest. In Glasgow …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… us, “Go in this thy might.” The preacher who neglects to pray much must be very careless about his ministry. He cannot have comprehended his calling. He cannot …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… Moreover, when a preacher is poor in grace, any lasting good which may be the result of his ministry, will usually be feeble and utterly out of proportion …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… Spurgeon’s life and ministry up to that time, he wrote: — “It was a nice word of Richard Sibbes when he said, ‘The office of a minister is …

“The Boy-Preacher of the Fens”

… minister; and that, even it’ I had been, I was quite unprepared. My companion only repeated that he, in a still more emphatic sense, was not a preacher …

Later Services at the Music Hall

… I have always been of opinion that his ministry there was the most wonderful and the most romantic that ever fell to the lot of any Christian minister …

The Burden of the Word of the Lord

Malachi 1:1

… He was a fine preacher of the classical sort and one said to him, ''Well, my dear Sir, you must look back upon your ministry with great comfort …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… Early in his ministry, he had to take up the cudgels for Baptist views against a Paedo-Baptist preacher of Rowel, near Kettering, and he did so in …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… Brethren, it is of importance in the work of the ministry that the preacher be a God-illuminated man. Not that education is to be despised—on the …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… Well, a doctrinal preacher is an exceedingly useful man, especially if he does not degenerate into endless controversy, preaching Christ of envy and strife. I have heard it …

On the Choice of a Text

… Every Holy Ghost preacher, I have no doubt, will have such recollections clustering around his ministry. I say, therefore, watch the course of Providence; cast yourselves upon the …

To Those Who Are "Almost Persuaded"

Acts 26:28

… My Brethren, the preaching of the Gospel minister should always have soul-winning for its object. Never should we seek that the audience should admire our excellency of …

The Model Home Mission and the Model Home Missionary

Acts 10:38

… If any Home Mission would see its work established, so as to endure the test of years, next to the ordinance of preaching, its ministry must be careful …

The Call to the Ministry

… I do not, however, in this lecture allude to occasional preaching, or any other form of ministry common to all the saints, but to the work and office …

Preach the Gospel

1 Corinthians 9:16

… Oh! to have a Christ-exalting ministry! Oh! to have preaching that magnifies Christ in his person, that extols his divinity, that loves his humanity; to have preaching …

Memorable Services away from Waterbeach

… Do you live at Waterbeach ? B. — Oh, then ; you are only an apprentice boy at present, just trying your hand at preaching ! Your ministry is a sort of …

The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry

… Holy Ghost, and that minister who does not think so had better escape from his ministry. Abundant prayer must go with earnest preaching. We cannot be always on …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… A pillar of light and fire should be the preacher’s fit emblem. Our ministry must be emphatic, or it will never affect these thoughtless times; and to …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… Verse 8. (I.) The characteristic of a useful ministry: ‘he spake boldly.’ (II.) The subject of such a ministry: ‘persuading the things concerning the Kingdom of God.’ “(1 …

First Visit to Scotland

… preaching, and bold preaching, that there was nothing uncharitable in entertaining some doubts of his intrinsic excellence ; still, that large London audiences daily waited on his ministry, was …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… Conceive not, because a certain preacher may have been greatly blessed in the conversion of souls, that there is anything in the preacher. God forbid that any preacher …

Sermon 443. The Two Draughts Of Fishes

Luke 5:4

… The preacher is compared to a fisherman. The fisherman's vocation is a toilsome one. Woe be to that minister who finds his calling to be otherwise. The …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… Some churches are in such a state that they are enough to baffle any ministry. A brother-minister told me of a Congregational chapel in which there has …

Heedful Hearing

Luke 8:18

… Hence, how great is the sin of a vast proportion of the inhabitants of this city who utterly forsake the ministry of the Gospel, who never hear it …

The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements*

… A negro preacher, in a certain village, said that among, his flock he carefully abstained from preaching against the sin of stealing chickens, because it seemed so much …

The Minister's Farewell

Acts 20:26-27

… Ah, it is no little thing to be a minister if we are true to our calling. As Baxter once said, when someone told him the ministry was …

First Literary Friends

… the preaching- of a young Baptist minister named C. H. Spurgeon. The crowds which have been drawn to hear him, the interest excited by his ministry, and the …

Christ Lifted Up

John 12:32

… I would prefer that the most prominent feature in my ministry should be the preaching of Christ Jesus. Christ should be most prominent, not hell and damnation. God …

Light. Fire. Faith. Life. Love.

… Shall we commence farming, and provide no barn? In many a village, the Lord has saved souls under the preaching of the gospel, but the minister has never …

Degrees Of Power Attending The Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:5

… to the high and holy office of the Gospel ministry. But this alone is not sufficient. The Christian minister, if he would imitate Paul, must be very careful …

What We Would Be*

… We come away from such preaching feeling that we have been to a good school. Brethren, I desire that we may each one exercise such an edifying ministry …

“Forward!”

… I heard one say, the other day, that a certain preacher had no more gifts for the ministry than an oyster, and in my own judgment this was …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… All sermons ought to be well considered and prepared by the preacher; and, as much as possible, every minister should, with much prayer for heavenly guidance, enter fully …

Possessing Possessions

… Zion must have holy preaching if she is to have conquering power. Whatever our ministry lacks, it must be said of it, "There shall be holiness," or there …

Jesus and His Forerunner

John 10:39-42

… And if this is the case, then the ministry will be without power. It used to be said of a certain noted preacher that his doctrine of the …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… Deliciously sarcastic was that famous letter “from an old and beloved minister to his dear son” upon his entrance into the ministry, the following extract from which hits …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… ministry; but, in another communication, sent to me by post, the minister wrote that the young man was not at all likely ever to become a preacher, and …

Not Sufficient and Yet Sufficient

2 Corinthians 3:5

… The next lesson I suggest to you is, seek not another ministry. It may be right, as far as I am concerned, that you should choose another preacher …