Preaching & Ministry

Simple Fact and Simple Faith

Acts 13:38

… APOSTOLIC preaching was widely different from the common sermonizing of this age. Doubtless, when the Apostles addressed assemblies of Believers, they took distinct subjects and kept to them …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… Minister, if you are truly sent of God, no one can be a sponsor for you in your ministry—you must take that burden which God has put …

The Lamb In Glory

Revelation 5:6

… The greatest man in the Church may be under obligations to the least—a preacher may be taught by a convert—an elder may be instructed by a …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… In the country it ought to be easy to find a fit place for preaching. One of the earliest things that a minister should do when he leaves …

'Even So, Father!'

Matthew 11:25

… This man came into the ministry in literary attainments totally unprepared for it; he is only fit to address the poor—his ministry is not polite and polished …

Incense and Light

Exodus 30:7

… If you will pray all through his discourse, every preacher will minister to your edification directly or indirectly. If you are set upon praying by the lighting of …

Spiritual Appetite

Proverbs 27:7

… That poor broken-down preaching, which is the best that the minister is able to give, will become sweet to you because there is a savor of Christ …

A Family Sermon

Genesis 7:1

… For albeit we cannot doubt that he was a faithful minister and an earnest preacher. And, no doubt, he pleaded with the people day and night, yet, sad …

The Family Likeness

Romans 8:14

… We had been called under the preaching of the Word, but vain were those calls. The Holy Spirit came and then the call of the preacher became an …

Beholding God's Church

Psalm 48:12-14

… But if we only gather together undisciplined bodies of men and women who merely come to hear preaching, but receive little or no instruction, they will become like …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… This is a lesson for the ministry at large. Certain earnest preachers are incessantly exciting the people, but seldom, if ever, instructing them. They carry much fire and …

An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents

Proverbs 6:20-23

… I have had very sorrowful sights, sometimes, in the course of my ministry. A dear father, an honest, upright, godly man, is perhaps present, but he will not …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… A preacher may not be able to appreciate the gifts of another preacher because they seem to be more attractive than his own. Good people, when they see …

Seeing and Testifying

1 John 4:14

… is no personal conversion at the back of their ministry and, consequently, no Christian life within them. Their preaching is the testimony of a man who says that …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… Many churches are, alas, brought low through a faulty ministry. A ministry that does not ring out in tones as clear as a clarion, "Salvation by Grace, through …

Evening, July 11

Joe 1:3

… he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home. The heathen are to be sought by all means, and the highways and hedges are …

Our Omnipotent Leader

Matthew 28:18

… Of which I am made a minister. This is a wonderful expression, "made a minister." The true minister is of God's making! A man-made minister must …

Honor for Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they knew not the LORD. Yet they were priests …

The Blessing of the High Priest

Numbers 6:22-27

… And the minister of Christ may, in God's name, pronounce a benediction upon the people. This was the custom in early times—the congregation was dismissed with …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… Beloved, it strikes me that the advice which the Lord gave to Moses was such as He has given to the preacher tonight— and that the message which …

The Believer's Present Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… high privilege to be called to the work of the Christian ministry. And when the minister remembers what great mercy he has, himself, received, what sins have been …

Visits From the Lord

John 21:7

… Then when He had received gifts for men and had distributed those gifts, they would be able to go forth in the power of the Spirit, preaching the …

Sabbath-work

John 5:9

… the day of rest, for His healing was a form of holy ministry. He was preaching sermons while He was healing the sick—and the best sort of …

Strange Things

Luke 5:26

… every true Gospel ministry, not the attraction of the mere words of human eloquence, but in the Truths of God which every faithful minister preaches and in that …

Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation

Hebrews 11:7

… Oh, that God would give to every preacher of righteousness this full reward himself and his house! O my brothers in the ministry, there is no greater joy …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot Do

Mark 4:26-29

… The preaching of the Gospel is the necessity of every age—God grant that our country may never be deprived of it! Even if the Lord should send …

Self-Examination

2 Corinthians 13:5

… Ay, and whisper not to me that you are a minister. My brethren in the ministry,—we may lay aside our cassocks to wear belts of flame in …

Ears Bored to the Doorpost

Exodus 21:5

… you attend upon the ministry in this place. I do know some who, when they get away into the country, where perhaps the minister is not much more …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… It may be fire, but it must be fire from off the altar or else if we minister with any other fire, like Nadab and Abihu, we may …

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… Now, Christian, again—be thine own preacher. It is impossible for me to depict thine experience as well as thou canst read it thyself. What multitudes of prayers …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… We go preaching, and there is no pleasure in preaching, and no good follows it. We go to our tract distributing, and our Sunday-school, we might almost …

"In the Garden With Him"

John 18:26

… Where could a well-known preacher go without being recognized? I sat with a good Brother minister one day in the midst of a pine plantation, on the …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… And I do not condemn them for that, but I do blame them because, sometimes, practical preaching seemed irksome to them and the enforcement of the precepts of …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… Perhaps, when home discipline, the school’s teaching, and the minister’s preaching shall go together, the Lord will look down in love and save your child. Dear …

Attention!

… preacher is wasting time over matters which he treats as if they were fiction? Romaine used to say it was well to understand the art of preaching, but …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… He became a preacher of righteousness, and though few, if any, were converted by that preaching, he persevered for 120 years, obediently doing what God commanded him, for …

Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility

Romans 10:20-21

… sat beneath the sound of the ministry, and it has been a faithful one, I trust, and a weeping one. Your minister has not forgotten to pray for …

Nominal Christians—Real Infidels

John 8:46

… the devil and his angels." No preacher was ever so awfully explicit upon future punishment as Jesus of Nazareth. No human ministry ever gave such graphic and harrowing …

Earnest Expostulation

Romans 2:4

… under a ministry which has been particularly plain and earnest; you have not had sermons preached before you, they have been preached at you: the minister has seized …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… Was this a great thing? Is preaching a wonder? Yes. The preaching of the Gospel proves conclusively the grandeur of our religion. The nearest to Christ were the …