Preaching & Ministry

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… Or if they do not change their denomination they are always changing their minister. A new minister starts up; there is no one, since the apostles, like him …

Satan in a Rage

Revelation 12:12

… speak to him, for your sisterly love will not much longer avail him. Minister, if you would save your congregation by the Spirit of God, seek to do …

Saying Versus Doing

Matthew 21:28-30

… Neither does standing idle minister any comfort to us and, moreover, Satan has already found some mischief for our idle hands to do." We thought that we would …

God's Pupil, God's Preacher—an Autobiography

Psalm 71:17

… and until this time have I declared Your wondrous works." The preacher using the Psalmist's language in the hope that many here will make bold to come …

The Waterer Watered

Proverbs 11:25

… Your minister has journeyed all over the three kingdoms preaching the Word and you have not grumbled at his absence. We have undertaken many enterprises for Christ. We …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… Only tell them that their minister or their brother has killed his wife, and they would believe it immediately, and send out for a policeman: but if you …

Gathering to the Center

Mark 1:45

… Brother minister, friend working in the Sunday school, laborer for Christ in any low district—you may fairly expect that the people will come to Christ—but do …

All Are Guilty

Matthew 27:22

… They seem to make this their chief end—to laud and magnify their own species! The drift of all their preaching is to please men's ears with …

Good News for the Aged

Matthew 20:6

… He came after them in the preaching of the Gospel and they spurned all that the minister said. But when God is determined to save, He does not …

Robbers of God

Malachi 3:8

… Glory is the ambition of many a preacher! One drop of human merit put into a sea of Free Grace preaching will spoil it all. "If by grace …

Freshness

Job 29:20

… I can imagine it to be the duty of the aged minister to retire from the prominent sphere where he has long been the preacher—and I hope …

All the People at Work for Jesus

… Have they not said in acts, if not in words, "That young man is preaching—we wish he would be quiet! He makes such blunders in the Queen …

A Drama in Five Acts

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

… A minister stood his side praying with him; let us trust that his soul found peace with God! But O the terror of his position; well might he …

Faith Omnipotent

Mark 9:23

… Perhaps you are a minister. You have been laboring in a village with very little success. Brother, may it not be that you did not believe that God …

Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company

Luke 2:44

… Payson, the American Divine, a man who walked with God in his ministry. He was out one day with a brother minister who had to make a call …

Intimate Knowledge of the Holy Spirit

John 14:17

… For where the doctrine is not of God, the Spirit of Truth is grieved and He will depart from such a ministry. Except we keep close to the …

A Solemn Embassy

2 Corinthians 5:20

… Though every man will not be blessed by it, the preacher cannot discriminate between those who must and those who will not inherit the blessing. Though only some …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… does not minister Grace unto the hearers. I consider that one of the great lacks of the Church, nowadays, is not so much Christian preaching as Christian talking …

A Song at the Wellhead

Numbers 21:16-18

… the preaching of the Truth of God—often and often does my soul groan out to God that He would give me liberty in the ministry—that He …

Individual Sin Laid On Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… In addition to an early Christian education, I have sat under an earnest Gospel ministry. I have often been impressed. I have been driven to my chamber to …

Rubbish

Nehemiah 4:10

… There is very much rubbish about, Brothers and Sisters! And, therefore, for the present distress, if every minister were to keep to preaching Christ and Him Crucified, and …

An Old-Fashioned Conversion

Job 33:29

… Prejudices against the preacher, or against the denomination are but forms of the same evil—they make men to be as Ulysses was when his ears were sealed …

"Honey In The Mouth!"

John 16:14

… Beloved Friends, I scarcely need say to you, keep the existence of the Trinity prominent in your ministry! Remember, you cannot pray without the Trinity. If the full …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… Still, it is my duty to speak to these, for every word of Scriptural warning should have its tongue in a complete ministry and every condition of soul …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… Let none, therefore, say that the preacher encourages a low state of Divine Grace—he encourages it no more than the physician encourages disease when he tries, by …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… The text, perhaps, was “Thou, God, seest me;” and the minister laid particular stress on the word “me,” so that you thought God’s eye was fixed upon …

The Pearl of Patience

James 5:11

… minister who had been somewhat angered by certain of his people and, therefore, preached from the text, "And Aaron held his peace." It was remarked that the preacher …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… William Olney, whenever he prays for a blessing upon our ministry, always breaks out into thanksgiving to God that all his family have been brought to Christ? There …

The Blessed Christ

Matthew 21:9

… Oh, would to God He were blessed in that respect in this congregation more and more! Preaching becomes very dead work when there are no converts. Sowing is …

Obedience Rewarded

Matthew 28:8-10

… If you can live without preaching the Gospel, live without preaching it, for if God has sent you, you will say with Paul, "Woe is unto me, if …

The Bible

Hosea 8:12

… It may be that Solomon sang canticles of love, or gave forth words of consummate wisdom, but God directed his lips, and made the preacher eloquent. If I …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… Oh, if the minister's blood were wholly cleansed! A perfect minister! What a pulpit! What a power! What a very incarnation of the love of Christ would …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… Many of my brethren, I am sorry to say, preach in such a way that there is no hope of children ever getting any good by their preaching …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… preacher to stand up and cry, "Believe, believe, believe," if he never tells you what is to be believed! There is plenty of this kind of preaching around …

The Fullness of Jesus the Treasury of Saints

John 1:16

… Ah, what a word, "His fullness!" If I had no other text given me to preach from until all preaching should be ended, this might suffice. His fullness …

A Special Benediction

… The human mind, always acting like leaven, had begun to corrupt, even, the Truth of the Gospel, so that where there had once been an unadulterated, unmingled preaching …

"God, and Not Man"—What Does It Mean?

Hosea 11:9

… Go and see what you can do to bring them to Heaven." I do long to see souls saved as one great result of my ministry! But what …

A Word with those who Wait for Signs and Wonders

Luke 11:29

… I trust my minister, but I cannot trust the Son of God exalted in the highest heavens." Why, this is crucifying Him—this is treating Him as a …

Fast-Day Service

DANIEL 9:1-19

… The last year has seen more preaching than any year since the days of the apostles. We are stirring in ragged schools, and in various efforts for doing …

A Worthy Theme for Thought

Psalm 48:9

… of what value is such preaching? I am afraid there is much of that sort of preaching to be heard. One minister said, some time ago, that he …