Preaching & Ministry

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… We greatly err when we dream that only a preacher can minister to the Lord—for Jesus has work of all sorts for all sorts of followers. Paul …

Withholding Corn

Proverbs 11:26

… that ministry is an abomination which puts Jesus Christ in the background. My Brothers, we must not only hear something about Jesus Christ, but our preaching must be …

The Necessity of Ministerial Progress

… 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 …

Lukewarmness

Revelation 3:15

… are." Let the minister be as earnest as he may, the lukewarmness of professors, to a large extent, neutralizes any effect which his ministry produces because the world …

The Alarum

Psalms 42:8

… ministry to your own soul. Pray for the preacher, for he is in the same danger as yourselves, for he is too compassed with infirmity. The minister soon …

A New School of the Prophets

… not then any idea of entering the ministry. Two persons, who became members at New Park Street through my preaching, led Mr. Spurgeon to suggest that I should …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… I am not restrained from my accustomed ministry by a chain forged by man, but by the silken cord of God's providence ; no rough jailer, but loving …

Clinging to Christ

John 6:67

… suspect that somebody has told the minister all about them—but what has happened is that God has guided the preacher unconsciously to picture them so accurately that …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… You are preaching twice, couldn't you manage to go to the next town or village, and preach again ? " Everyone else has a constitution, the minister is supposed …

Harvest Men Needed

Matthew 9:37

… minister. An idler has no right in the pulpit! He is an instrument of Satan in damning the souls of men. The ministry demands brain labor. The preacher …

A Memorable Visit to Stambourne.–Mr. Knill’s Prophecy

… What a meeting we had! He was preaching in the theater, and consequently I had to take his place at the footlights. His preaching in a theater took …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… His preaching at once gave signs of singular attraction. And on his repeating his visits to the metropolis, each occasion witnessed the increasing interest his ministry excited. In …

Sermons — Their Matter

… I know a minister whose shoe-latchet I am unworthy to unloose, whose preaching is often little better than sacred miniature painting—I might almost say holy trifling …

The Pastor's Life Wrapped Up with His People's Steadfastness a Pleading Reminder for the New Year

1 Thessalonians 3:8

… On the other hand, if God does not bless the word of His servants, it is like death to them! To be preaching and to have no blessing …

Preaching! Man's Privilege and God's Power

Mark 6:20

… HE PREACHING OF THE WORD hath exceeding power. John commenced his ministry as an obscure individual, a man who led an almost hermit life. He begins to preach …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… That is a fine way of preaching—that of preaching with your feet—I mean preaching by your life and conduct and conversation! That loving wife who weeps …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… the minister, they will not, for they appreciate his ministry. Again, let me say by often being present at the Prayer Meetings you can encourage the minister. You …

'The Ministry of Reconciliation'

2 Corinthians 5:18

"The Ministry of Reconciliation" (No. 2837) A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, JUNE 28, 1903. DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… the Lord under my ministry? Do you know of anyone brought to Christ through my preaching?” My good old friend and deacon said, “I am sure somebody must …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… due time received certain seals which attest his ministry as being the ministry of God. The rightly ordained minister is ordained not by the laying on of bishop …

The Seed Upon Stony Ground

Mark 4:5

… Dear Brothers and Sisters, choose a faithful, testing ministry. Do not look after a smoothtongued preacher who will always cry, "Comfort You, comfort You, my people." You need …

The Soul Winner

… astonished as the preacher him- self; in fact, T know a man who was converted, or at least convicted, under the preaching of a minister of that kind …

Letters concerning Settlement in London

… It is not right to say, ‘ If you mean to be a minister;’ for I am one, and have been for two years as much a minister as …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… There was a young man, who is now a student for the ministry, so extraordinarily ignorant was he of his own Bible, that upon hearing a young minister …

The Widow of Sarepta

1 Kings 17:8

… the chosen preacher and she is the woman who must receive his word. So in all places where my Brothers in the ministry are preaching the Lord not …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

Having often said in this room that a minister ought to have one blind eye and one deaf ear, I have excited the curiosity of several brethren, who …

Faith.

… minister’s faith, is that we believe in  our own commission to preach the gospel.  If any brother here is not assured of his call to the ministry …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… of our Lord's preaching was His remarkable commingling of the excellences which are found separately in His servants. You know, perhaps, a preacher who is admirable when …

On Spiritualizing

… A worthy minister told me the other day that he had been preaching lately to his people upon the nine and twenty knives of Ezra. I am sure …

The Double "Come"

Revelation 22:17

… of men ordained to the Christian ministry who, themselves, do not know what it is to be born again! They are preaching mysteries in which they have no …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… Perhaps there is a very learned man sitting over yonder, and the temptation to the preacher is to say something that shall make him feel that the minister …

Meeting Of The Neighboring Churches

… his ministry might be more than realized. A short time after the site for the building had been secured, he had some conversation with a Baptist minister from …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… Spurgeon’s preaching (harshly, as the friends of the preacher think), we shall consider ourselves bound to take an opportunity of reviewing these discourses. In so doing, the …

Scourge For Slumbering Souls

Amos 6:1

… not a minister of God. If I have preached in such a way that I have found my ministry a light labor. If the preaching of a sermon …

Evangelical Congratulations

Philippians 1:18

… Whereof I am ordained a preacher." Do you see my drift? The preaching, obviously, demonstratively, stands connected with the purpose, which cannot fail—bound up with the Everlasting …

The Charge of the Angel

Acts 5:19

… Feeble as I am, I must do the preaching. Oh, that your Lord and mine may help me and enable me to make full proof of my ministry …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… men for the ministry. Some five or six years ago, one of the young men of our church gave promise of being a successful minister if he could …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… Hallelujah! Now, when the Lord does use a star to be his minister, what is the order of his ministry? We may learn by this enquiry what kind …

Additions to the Church

… of the preacher must lie in his being filled with the Holy Spirit. I fear that many Churches would not be content with a ministry whose power would …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… S., in '^ The Saint and his Saviour^' published in 1857 ANY of my friends are unacquainted with the transactions of the early years of my ministry in London …