Preaching & Ministry

God Is With Us

Romans 8:31

… s minister and he counts it foul shame to stoop to any man! He takes for his motto, Cedo nulli, "I yield to none," and preaching God's …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… They want a comforting ministry! They want to hold on to the promises! My dear Brother, it is most probable what you want is neither. You need to …

Preaching in the Open Air

It can be argued, with small fear of refutation, that open-air preaching is as old as preaching itself. We are at full liberty to believe that Enoch …

'The Blood of the Testament'

Hebrews 9:19

… The blood which Moses called "the blood of the covenant" or, "of the testament," was of the utmost importance in the ministry of the tabernacle, for IT WAS …

Freedom Through Christ's Blood

Zechariah 9:11

… Each of these is a one-legged ministry! We must have two legs to our ministry and, like Peter, "testify and exhort saying, Save yourselves from this untoward …

Experiences after Conversion

… So I went to that same Primitive Methodist Chapel where I first received peace with God, through the simple preaching of the Word. The text happened to be …

The Unkept Vineyard—or, Personal Work Neglected

Solomon 1:6

… The text is spoken in the first person singular—"They made me." Therefore let the preaching, tonight, be personal to you, dear Friends—personal to the preacher, first …

A Caution to the Presumptuous

… May my Master arouse such, while in preaching I endeavour to go to the core and root of the matter. For a little while I will expatiate upon …

The Lord's Chosen Ministers

Luke 10:21

… It is an easy thing to become a preacher, or a teacher, an evangelist, or what not—but are our names written in Heaven? As Christ would have …

The True Aim of Preaching

Acts 13:38

… PAUL'S mode of preaching, as illustrated by this chapter, was first of all to appeal to the understanding with a clear exposition of doctrinal Truths of God …

The Second Time

Acts 7:13

… Then I went to another place where the minister was preaching some intellectual doctrine of which I could make neither heads nor tails. So I went in vain …

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… God makes the preacher whom He sends to be the source of so much good, or the channel of so much good, for by his preaching comes the …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… If God does not bless the ministry upon which they attend, it does not concern them one half so much as a rise in the price of wheat …

Belief in the Resurrection

Mark 16:6

… But true preaching, soul-saving preaching, the Spirit's voice speaking through man—this is miracle working! You know, my Brothers, there are some who cannot preach—they …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… No one minister, no 20 ministers, no elders, if there were a hundred, no deacons, if there were a thousand, could ever fulfill all the ministries of the …

Two Essential Things

Acts 20:21

… man till he was renewed by grace through the preaching of Mr. Wesley, and became a mighty preacher, and the author of that glorious hymn, "The God of …

A New Creation

Revelation 21:5

… Thus He gives power to the ministry. There were 3,000 new creations in one day when Peter preached the Gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… They that were persecuted went everywhere preaching the Word. They might have tarried at home, perhaps, and been corn in the garner, but persecution broke down the door …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… He who finds the ministry an easy profession shall find the flames of Hell no pleasant resting place. Oh, there may be some of you in whose name …

Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit

Galatians 5:5

… It would be a grievous fault in any preaching if it did not ascribe honor to the Holy Spirit, nor could we too severely rebuke any ministry which …

The Rule of Grace

Luke 4:27

… His ministry was so attractive that thousands thronged to hear Him, glad to catch the accents of His instructive tongue, but He never for a moment sought to …

Jesus Christ Immutable

Hebrews 13:8

… We do not pray enough for the ministry. The Gospel ministry is peculiarly the gift of the Ascension. When He ascended on high He received gifts for men …

Christ, the Glory of His People

Luke 2:32

… You know, Beloved, this is a trying point with many of us, for I am afraid that sometimes we even get to glory in our ministry—and if …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… This young man became a minister and an Evangelist. He was a preacher of such a sort that we should have been glad to have heard him. God …

The Withering Work of the Spirit

Isaiah 40:6-8

… The withering before the sowing was very marvellously fulfilled in the preaching of John the Baptist. Most appropriately he carried on his ministry in the desert, for a …

'In Remembrance'

1 Corinthians 11:24

… When did He not suffer? What sorrows were crowded into the three years of His public ministry! His life was one of constant suffering and then at the …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

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

The King's Mowings

Amos 7:1

… When a certain great man suddenly died in the ministry, I remember, in my young days, an old preacher saying, "I must preach better than ever I did …

The Arrows Of The Lord'S Deliverance

2 Kings 13:19

… A Revelation of Christ might have been given to every man without a single minister. But did He choose to do it? No, my Brethren, He did not …

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… Providence may have placed us where the ministry is instructive and established—and then our foot stands in an even place. I have known some shepherds of flocks …

Heaven and Hell

Matthew 8:11-12

… Whitefield, when you were preaching, you told us that Christ would take in the devil’s castaways, and I am one of them,’” and that was the means …

A Program Never Carried Out

Luke 15:20

… We will say, "Benjamin." However, he was not a Jew, but one day there called upon him a venerable Israelite who fell at once upon the minister's …

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… That eminent Puritan preacher, Mr. Thomas Dolittle, was once teaching the catechism to the children of the congregation, as was the custom of the Puritans on Sunday. He …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… Come, Holy Spirit, to help the preacher! Come, Divine Comforter, to troubled hearts and give them rest in Immanuel! Immanuel is a grand word. "God with us" means …

The Form of Sound Words

2 Timothy 1:13

… We have men who in the morning hear a Calvinistic preacher, and say, “Oh, it is delightful;” in the evening they hear an Arminian, and they say, “Oh …

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… When I saw the picture, I thought that it was wonderfully characteristic of a great deal of modern preaching. See Pilate here, Caiaphas there, and the Jews yonder …

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… They have read a story of some famous minister who stained his character and they believe that all ministers are mere pretenders. They hear of Mr. Liberal, who …

The God of Peace and Our Sanctification

Hebrews 13:20

… As Jacob would not let the angel go until He blessed him, so we should not cease from preaching or writing in the name of the Lord until …

Jericho Captured

Joshua 6:2

… Justus Jonas and others of whom he said were infinitely greater and more wise than himself. "But," said Martin, "I do not, therefore, alter my style of preaching …

True Worship

Psalm 50:14

… I have not any minister—nobody to speak unless he believes the Spirit moves him. We all sit still. Many times we sit still the whole morning. We …