Preaching & Ministry

Ask and Have

James 4:2

… But still, there stands the fact—public worship is almost deserted in some places, the ministry has no rallying power about it—and those who put in an …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… Lift high the Cross, then, preacher! Lift high the Cross, Sunday school teacher! Here, and here only, righteousness meets with peace, embraces man and man embraces his Brothers …

The Pleading of the Last Messenger

Mark 12:6-9

… I dare not live as a preacher of my own inventions! I dare not die as a preacher of my own thoughts, or of the thoughts of other …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… I believe we may even rightly employ it in the preaching of God’s word. I know this, I always intend to use it; and if by a …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

Psalm 50 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Psalm of Asaph. This is the first of the Psalms of …

The Heavenly Singers and Their Song

Revelation 5:8-10

… This redemption is the ground of their distinction—"You have redeemed us to God by Your blood." I heard one, the other day, say of a certain minister …

Later Sermonettes

… still living, who were among “the boy-preacher’s” first hearers, must be continually diminishing. Even their reminiscences of his preaching would be necessarily very incomplete after so …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… ministry, itself, is like a "wagon" in which to bring men to Christ. I have often thought to myself, when I have been going home after preaching, "I …

God's Writing Upon Man's Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… A certain minister, preaching from the text, "Your Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against You," had three heads to his sermon …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… Without, then, attempting to prove that, let us drive onward towards the practical issue; for, after all, practice is the end of preaching; or, if ye will have …

The Old Man's Sermon

Psalm 71:17

… I EXPECT, during the present week, to have the pleasure of preaching at Kettering, to celebrate the centenary of the ministry in that place of Mr. Toller and …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890

… Spurgeon's correspondence that it may appropriately be followed by some specimens of the letters which he wrote at various periods during his long ministry. Many have already …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… You love me, I know you do and you dare not leave my ministry! You cannot leave it though it is often a heart-searching ministry to you …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… The true servant of God in his ministry dares not prophesy smooth things to unconverted men and women. He is the bearer of glad tidings to such as …

Thoughts on the Last Battle

1 Corinthians 15:56-57

… suppose another character—a minister. He has stood before the world, proclaiming something which he called the gospel. He has been a noted preacher; the multitude have been …

Holy Water

John 4:14

… Savior! Such a man will follow the Lamb though every preacher should die and every outward ministry should be struck dumb. The indwelling power of the Holy Spirit …

Future Punishment A Fearful Thing

Hebrews 10:31

… The complete ministry leaves no revealed Truth of God unuttered, but looks for a blessing upon the Word as a whole. The themes of mercy need, in order …

Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved

Jeremiah 8:20

… A preacher whom God sends will often feel more care for the souls of men than men feel for themselves or their own salvation. Is it not sad …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… The minister cannot be always preaching; two or three hours, may be, in a week, he spends among his people in the pulpit, holding the glass of the …

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… ministry upon such enjoyments as these, which concern the experience of the child of God; but I fear they make it the main object of their preaching, to …

The Best Bread

John 6:48

… You have heard about them, I dare say, but the preachers of them cannot have the delight in preaching their new gospels that I have in preaching the …

The Drawings of Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… These people said, "Lord, Lord," and, in addition, pleaded their prophesying or preaching in His name. All the preaching in the world will not save the preacher if …

"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon

John 21:15

… In the act of preaching the Gospel, all are fish that come to the net—the sorting of the good from the bad is to be done another …

The Infallibility of Scripture

Isaiah 1:20

… we should have no justifiable motive for preaching our lives away, if we have not this message. The true preacher, the man whom God has commissioned, delivers his …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… And when congregations were not given to slumber, even under such long discourses, the preacher had ample time not only to dilate upon the doctrine of his text …

A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing

2 Corinthians 12:11

… His ministry is now more solid and full of experimental teaching—an ungenerous race of hearers do not say that his preaching has become weighty, but they complain …

Have You Forgotten Him?

Genesis 41:9

… By the love of souls, aid me in my great anxiety to supply the needs of the age with a ministry called of God to preach His Truth …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… Christ Himself is the essential Word and the preaching of Christ Jesus is the operative Word. We receive Christ actually when God's power goes with God's …

Prefatory Note

… Though there is here the special, personal appeal to his own men, the subjects dealt with concern the whole Christian ministry at home and abroad, using the term …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… When a certain Church, which holds with mutual edification and no ministry, is yet not quarrelsome towards those who love the ministry of the Word! When, in fact …

The First Recorded Words of Jesus

Luke 2:48

… ways." We say, sometimes, when preaching, "I felt that I got fairly into the subject," and you, yourselves, know when the preacher is really getting into it. Often …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… Paul compares the preaching of Christ to a sweet-smelling savor. Now, you cannot say to a perfume, "Be quiet! Do not load the air with sweets. Do …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… My friends, I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… Some persons even pray to those who are around them, like the preacher of whose prayer the remark was made that, "it was one of the finest prayers …

A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart

Hebrews 3:13

… I am fearful that even preaching against sin may have an injurious effect upon the preacher. I frankly confess, my Brethren, that there is a tendency with those …

Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men

Matthew 9:27-30

… They were insatiable for sight! Their earnest cries took Him off from His preaching. He paused and listened while they said, "Son of David, have mercy on us …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… rejoice because your names are written in Heaven." Success in the ministry is not the Christian minister's true reward—it is an earnest—but the wages still …

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… I believe the confession of the most of God's children will be such as gives the glory to the Gospel, and not to the preacher's skill …

A Song, A solace, A Sermon and a Summons

Psalm 136:1

… A woman, the worst woman in the town, seeing the crowd, thought she would push into the Kirk to listen to the English minister. He was preaching from …

A Mournful Defection

John 6:67

… His own preaching constantly sifted His hearers. Some were blown away because they were but chaff. They did not really believe. By the ministry of the Gospel, by …