Preaching & Ministry

Let Him Alone

Hosea 4:17

… Many persons entertain the evil notion that preaching sermons and hearing sermons is a light matter. When the occasion is past, the exhortation closed, the congregations broken up …

The Bridgeless Gulf

Luke 16:26

… Our experience is that the preaching of judgment is greatly blessed of God. We have remarked that a very large number of conversions have occurred under those sermons …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… Sunday after Sunday, and weekday after weekday, preaching still, having need to say something fresh continually, and often wondering where it will come from. The preacher is grateful …

Songs of Deliverance

Judges 5:11

… The fruitful lips of the preacher who speaks experimentally, who speaks clearly, who speaks of that which he has tasted and handled of the good word of truth …

The Swiftly Running Word

Psalms 147:15

… The Person, life, death, Resurrection and Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ are the Word which speaks out the heart of God and in His ministry, our Lord …

Cheering Congratulation

Psalm 32:1

… By the ministry of the Holy Spirit, one may hear now, as in days of yore, a voice of Divine Authority saying, "Your sins are forgiven you; go …

Lecture 1: A Chat about Commentaries

… Matthew Henry is Jay writing, Jay is Matthew Henry preaching. What more could I say in commendation either of the preacher or the author? It would not be …

Messengers Wanted

Isaiah 6:8

… The first is the agency of those specially dedicated to the ministry of the Word who give themselves wholly to it—who are able, by the generous effort …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… They do nothing outrageous now—the question is—Are they doing anything? Their minister is an extremely learned man and as polished as a looking-glass. Of course …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… and Sisters think that a minister who reads books and studies his sermon must be a very deplorable specimen of a preacher. A man who comes up into …

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints

Psalm 46:8-9

… If a man loves the ministry, if he can only preach Christ’s gospel in poverty, God bless him in his poverty; if he has to be a …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… The third Testimony came to our Lord in His ministry. He was preaching in the temple when the Father responded to His prayer. Now while I have spoken …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… the man who once could laugh at gospel warnings, and despise the preaching of the minister, now sits down and trembles at every word. The Lord is in …

The Cholera Year in London

… And now, again, is the minister’s time; and now is the time for all of you who love souls. You may see men more alarmed than they …

False Justification and True

Job 9:20

… The preacher turned to one of the members of the church, sitting in the left-hand gallery and, addressing him by name, he said, "Brother So-and-So …

Come From the Four Winds, O Breath!

Ezekiel 37:9

… Nothing gave me greater comfort, this week, than when I received a note from one saying that, last Thursday night, while I was preaching from the text, "Let …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Spurgeon upon verse 17 is #2409, Volume 41—A GREAT SERMON BY THE GREATEST PREACHER.] I WANT to teach two lessons tonight. The first will be a most …

The Swift Camels

1 Kings 4:20-28

… My dear Brother, you do not occupy the post of a minister or a pastor that you may be respected, but that you may "adorn the doctrine of …

The Mighty Power Which Creates And Sustains Faith

Ephesians 1:19-23

… I see no human power that can help you—in vain the minister, in vain the preaching. Your damnation is sure, you will go down to Hell and …

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

Psalm 132 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Song of Degrees. A joyful song indeed: let all pilgrims to …

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… Preaching will seem dreadful work to the preacher when he comes to die if he has not been faithful. And it will not seem slight work to you …

Adorning the Gospel

Titus 2:10

… I AM afraid that there are some Christians who would hardly like the best preaching that they could ever have. The best doctrine that could ever be delivered …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… deliver it, but I want none of his preaching." Sometimes, you know, when people are brought to hear a preacher with the view of their being converted, if …

Sealed and Open Evidences

Jeremiah 32:14

… Christian minister keep to his preaching. Yes, but Jeremiah was commanded by God to do this because he was really preaching by what he did! The preacher must …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… Whitefield, when preaching, would often hold up his hands and cry, "Oh, the wrath to come! The wrath to come! The wrath to come!" There is more weight …

David's Dying Prayer

Psalm 72:10

… In a higher and holier sense I preach the crusade to-day, not as a hermit, but as God’s preacher, I come forth to stir you up …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

Psalm 147 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher SUBJECT. This is a specially remarkable song. In it the greatness and the condescending goodness …

The Weaned Child

Psalm 131:2

… I was once conversing with a very excellent aged minister and while we were talking about our attitude and feelings, he made the following confession—he said, "When …

Consolation For The Despairing

Psalm 31:22

… A legal ministry will do it and so, also, will that teaching which bids men look within for comfort—and sets up one uniform experience as the standard …

A Bit of History for Old and Young

Genesis 48:15

… What a meeting we had! Mark this! He was preaching in the theater! His preaching in a theater took away from me all fear about preaching in secular …

God's Care of Elijah

1 Kings 17:4

… Ah, God knows how to make our enemies to minister to our good, both temporally and spiritually. Once in old Popish times, a good woman condemned to starve …

Nothing But Leaves

Mark 11:13

… Let the preacher feel the anxiety of the apostle Paul, lest, after having preached to others, he himself should be a castavay; and let my hearers feel the …

By The Fountain

Genesis 49:22

… The wish-wash of today's preaching would have gained the preacher in "the desert" no congregation. But when untold treasures are displayed, saints will come to hear …

The Saddest Cry From the Cross

Matthew 27:46

… A Puritan preacher was standing by the deathbed of one of his members who had been for 30 years in gloom of soul. The good old minister expected …

A Challenge and War Cry

1 Corinthians 15:55-58

… There is many a man who cannot "hear" his minister and the reason may be that God never hears him pray for his minister. 2. And that we …

The Church As She Should Be

Solomon 6:4

… They do not expect their pastor’s ministry to be with power; and if it were attended with manifest effect they would be greatly disturbed, and perhaps would …

The Best Cloak

Isaiah 59:17

… Oftentimes the Christian minister, especially, will pass through a pelting, raging, whirling tempest and hurricane of difficulties. And in such times, unless he is very zealous, he may …

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… This memorial has been seen among the heather on the Scottish hillside where the lightning flash lent its kindly beam to the minister as he read the Sacred …

Christ—The Power and Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 1:24

… brethren in the ministry-when I mark their utter and entire inefficiency of doing aught for God—when I see their waste of time, preaching now and then …

The Good Shepherdess

Solomon 1:7

… I am preaching to myself perhaps a great deal more than to you. I am preaching to my own heart. I feel I have to come, Sunday after …