Preaching & Ministry

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… Spurgeon for the Pastors' College and for building chapels for the ministry of brethren trained in that Institution. The Law of Mortmain prevented the carrying out of the …

And Why Not Me?

Matthew 8:2

… Power goes forth with the preaching of the Gospel. The Words of the Lord Jesus are spirit and life—they are in themselves full of authority and we …

Unwillingness to Come to Christ

John 5:40

… There are other preachings, but there is only one true ministry, and the true ministry bears witness concerning Christ. There are other supposed ways of salvation, but they …

The True Lineage

Luke 11:27

… She was a poor ignorant soul who, perhaps, had never listened to any preaching before—and certainly had never listened to such preaching as that of Jesus Christ …

Meeting Of Our Own Church

… We do not look up to one minister called a bishop, or to some other person called an archbishop. The Church has its own bishop or pastor; it …

Jesus Near but Unrecognized

Luke 24:16

… I remember a minister who was talking to a poor bedridden woman who was under a grievous cloud, and she said, "Sir, I do not think I have …

Christ's Ambassadors

2 Corinthians 5:20

… First, every true minister of Christ is engaged upon royal business. He is doing business for the King of Kings, the great Lord of All! He does not …

The Seven Sneezes

2 Kings 4:35

… We are not examining them for the ministry—we are only looking for evidences of spiritual life—to apply to them the tests which would be proper enough …

Refusing to Be Comforted

Psalm 77:2

… comfort you, where no minister will labor and travail for your soul's salvation, where you shall sit under a dry and lifeless ministry, or perhaps under none …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… Brethren, I do feel with regard to myself, and therefore, when I speak of others I speak not uncharitably, that the reason of the nonsuccess of the ministry …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… God calls to the sinner to turn, but turn he never will unless there is something more than the call! By the public ministry, by sickness, by the …

How To Meet the Doctrine of Election

Matthew 15:24

… I do not think that any minister has ever told you so, but if you have ever gathered from any ministry under Heaven that there is no hope …

Observing the King's Word

1 Kings 20:33

… through something that the preacher shall say under the gracious guidance of Your Holy Spirit!" I do not think there will be much preaching in vain when hearers …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… Men do not like to be always preaching the same thing., There are Athenians in the pulpit as well as in the pew who spend their time in …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… Nearly 20 years ago our ministry commenced in this city under much opposition and hostile criticism—the preacher being condemned on all hands as vulgar, unlearned, and, in …

The Lord Leading—David Following

2 Samuel 5:24

… Even before the preacher enters his pulpit, he may get out of order for preaching. Poor man that he is, something may happen to him that may quite …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… preaching, as Eutychus did under the lengthy discourse of Paul. Neither were any terrified by His looks, as men have been by fierce fanatic leaders—His ministry was …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… To them, preaching is all a farce and, worked up with a few falsehoods of their own, it makes excellent fun for them and causes them to be …

Loyal to the Core

2 Samuel 15:21

… Where else did Jesus go? In the commencement of His ministry He descended into the waters of baptism. Let us follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. At the …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… of the country where the preaching has not been a power to your soul. The very change and novelty of the minister's voice may be helpful to …

A Stir-and What Came of It

Matthew 21:10

… Some preaching is a kind of articulate snoring in which the preacher does not appear to be certain whether he is, himself awake and, therefore, it is not …

Happy Childhood at Stambourne

… The house has been supplanted by one which, I doubt not, is most acceptable to the excellent minister who occupies it; but to me it can never be …

Royal Homage

Revelation 4:10

… But if the Lord will help me to understand Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, I shall be perfectly satisfied to go on preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ …

The Former and the Latter Rain

Jeremiah 5:24

… Any Church that conceives that its ministry has in it a natural power which guarantees its efficiency. Any Church that dreams that its membership has become so influential …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… And He healed their impotent folk, as if to show that the Christian does well to minister to the sick—that the patient watcher by the bedside may …

Later Literary Works

… Many and many have come to these pews, to listen to your minister, who would never have been here but for her calm, beautiful, unobtrusive, holy life, and …

Sincere Seekers—assured Finders

1 Chronicles 28:9

… tickle your ears, but can never save your soul! Seek a Christ-exalting ministry. Desire to be where your soul will be handled with fidelity and where Christ …

"How Good to Those Who Seek!"

Lamentations 3:25

… There was no gleam of success to gladden his ministry, yet he never flinched! Nobody seemed to believe in him—he was the jest and the by-word …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… And at one meeting, held afterwards, there were scores of persons who rose up to tell of what that ministry had done for their souls by God the …

Loving Persuasion

Acts 28:23

… The preacher comes on this platform neither without his own prayers, nor without your prayers and so we are persuaded that we shall have Divine help! Therefore, O …

Jesus and the Children

Mark 10:13-16

… He is no preacher." Sirs, I tell you that in God's sight he is no preacher who does not care for the children! There should be at …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… I trust that in my ministry I shall never keep back the doctrines of the Grace of God, but I am anxious at the same time with equal …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… Then, mark again, another proof qf the full devotedness of Christ to his ministry namely, that you always see him laboring. The three years of Christ’s ministry …

"Peace in Believing"

Romans 15:13

… every preacher felt that, albeit there are certain things which are sweet and toothsome, which some mouths are always craving, yet the chief business of the minister, like …

A Happy Christian

Isaiah 58:11

… The proper remedies being pointed out, and the Christian being earnestly exhorted to the use of them, I am quite sure that such ministry as describes the unhealthy …

Abraham's Prompt Obedience to the Call of God

Hebrews 11:8

… There have been calls through the living ministry, when the minister has spoken as pointedly to you as if he were a prophet, and you have known that …

The Special Prayer Meeting

Acts 12:12

… Now, Brothers and Sisters, the minister does, as it were, distribute the portions to the people, but if he does not apply to his Master to get them …

Working Out What is Worked In

Philippians 2:12

… I admire it in him." Why, these interchanges of loving estimate are infinitely more Christ-like than for the minister with the large congregation to say, "Brother A …

The Sin of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:19

… But the real reason why God’s people do not feed under a gospel ministry, is, because they have not faith. If you believed, if you did but …

Iconoclast

2 Kings 18:4

… Christian Church are rather the work of the preacher than of the Spirit of God. And therefore when the minister who was the instrument of them happens to …