Preaching & Ministry

A Home Question

… All class-preaching is. I take it, fundamentally wrong. We preach the gospel to every creature, and the Christian minister knows nothing of rich or poor, of young …

The Leading of the Spirit, The Secret Token of the Sons of God

Romans 8:14

… If ever a preacher's spirit and teaching legitimately lead you to the conclusion that you may view the damnation of your fellow men with complacency or indifference …

Paul As a Pattern Convert

1 Timothy 1:16

… What a privilege it must have been to him to be permitted to preach the Gospel! I should think sometimes when he was preaching most earnestly, he would …

Two Ancient Proverbs

Proverbs 29:25

… There are Brothers who ought to be preaching, but who are not because they are afraid of men. And some who ought to go and visit the poor …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… for gold, so is a man to his praise." A Christian minister may go on preaching very earnestly and God will help him, though everybody opposes him. But …

Faith—life

Habakkuk 2:4

… THE fact that these words are so frequently found in the Word of God is a sufficient justification for often preaching from them. There seems to be, among …

Psalm 29

Psalm 29

Psalm 29 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher TITLE. A Psalm of David. The title affords us no information beyond the fact that …

Watching For Christ's Coming

Luke 12:37

… proper business, which was the preaching of the Gospel and the healing of the sick. We find, in these days, that the minister of the Gospel is asked …

Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ

John 5:44

… They dared not say that his ministry was altogether of man, and consequently they were posed by the Savior's question, "The ministry of John, was it from …

The Nail in a Sure Place

Isaiah 22:23-25

… a Christian country, from the lips of one who had attended a Gospel ministry? Her confidence was built upon the mere fact of her having attended to an …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… I will no more shine upon that church, and no more bless that ministry.” Let us feel our unworthiness, it will be a good preparation for earnest prayer …

An Infallible Sign Of Revival

Isaiah 2:11

… and there should not be abundant conversions in the School and in the ministry and everywhere around our borders. Should such a time of dearth ever come to …

Cheering Words and Solemn Warnings

Isaiah 3:10

… During nearly all the term of my ministry in London I have had the privilege of knowing a dear Friend in Christ Jesus to whom my heart has …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… of a preacher who walked to a chapel, within ten miles of this spot, and preached in the morning, and walked back again; he also preaching in the …

Peace at Home, and Prosperity Abroad

Psalm 147:14

… The most erudite minister may instruct the people; the most earnest preacher may plead God's cause with men, but if he bath not with him a band …

Watching to See

Habakkuk 2:1-4

… could see how our minister mesmerizes the people all round the gallery every Sunday! They can sleep soundly enough after he has been preaching a little while." Now …

The Tender Pity of the Lord

Psalm 103:13

… I am sure if any of you have been converted through my ministry, you have been converted through a very imperfect one. While I deeply regret my imperfections …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

Psalm 77 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. It was meet that another leader …

God Glorified By Children's Mouths

… The enemy dreads nothing so much as witness-bearing to the Gospel, for he knows that it pleases God, "by the foolishness of preaching to save them that …

Your Own Salvation

Philippians 2:12

… The longer I live the more I feel that if God do not make me faithful as a minister, it had been better for me never to have …

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity

Job 27:10

… His passions were stirred by the preacher, and fermented by the contagious zeal of the solemn assembly. But now a damp cold mist obscures his view chills his …

A Sermon For Spring

Solomon 2:10-13

… And for some time during his sound and solid ministry it was a good and profitable season, and the Church was multiplied and built up. But again, even …

The Holy Road

Isaiah 35:8

… Is there to be an open door from the pulpit to the theater? Are men to go from exercising the sacred ministry to the playhouse? Time was when …

Homage Offered to the Great King

Psalm 72:15

… First, I think, Jesus daily shall be praised as long as there is a Christian ministry. There have been professed ministers who have never exalted Christ at all …

The Captive Savior Freeing His People

John 18:8

… Another poor trembler has been sitting under a legal ministry, and he has been told that if he would be saved he must keep the Commandments. He has …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… Elisha, then, was the President of a College for young men who were being trained for the sacred ministry of God. They had grown so numerous that they …

Idolatry Condemned

1 John 5:21

… Such a man must have strange views of honesty—and so has the minister who goes into a pulpit and addresses people when he knows that he does …

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

Psalm 87 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. A sacred hymn …

The Mission of the Son of Man

Luke 19:10

… After having been trained up religiously in our Midst, they turn aside; they give up all outward regard to the worship of God, the ministry of the gospel …

"Is God In the Camp?"

1 Samuel 4:7

… his character, for the fidelity of his preaching, for his power in prayer, for the blessing that rests upon his ministry in the conversion of sinners—but he …

The Glory of Grace

Ephesians 1:6

… For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of …

Christ's Testimony Received

John 3:33

… We often hear persons say that there are crowds attending such a ministry, the people block up the gangways, they fill every seat and the preacher is very …

Christ the Seeker and Savior of the Lost

Luke 19:10

… They say that we ministers lift the sinful into the most prominent place and give them the preference above the moral and excellent in our preaching. This is …

The Well-beloved's Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1

… Blessed and happy is the man who is called to the Christian ministry, for this service has brought more Glory to Christ than any other! You, beloved Friends …

The Throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:3

… This is not preaching. I have been merely holding up the text and trying to suggest thought after thought as the Glory of my Lord's kingdom occurred …

Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded

Matthew 6:31-33

… When a crowd gathers to hear anyone preach, surely it is not the preacher's business to feed his congregation as well as teach them! Yet Jesus thought …

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… elect, in advance of the more tardy followers of the Lamb! If any minister of Christ dares to be too bold, too plain, too honest for the common …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… The Psalmist was a preacher, and it was quite right that he should sometimes make himself his congregation. The preacher who neglects to preach to himself has forgotten …

The Greatest Exhibition of the Age

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Welch, a very devout minister of the Gospel in Suffolk, who was found weeping one day. And when he was asked by a brother minister why he wept …

Nearer and Dearer

Solomon 5:2-8

… To the undefiled, Jesus says, "Open to Me." Oh, I am ashamed, this morning, to be preaching from such a text! Ashamed of myself most of all, that …