Preaching & Ministry

Essential Points In Prayer

1 Kings 9:2

… These things should be earnest matters of supplication but not of a sort of indirect preaching and scolding in prayer. It is conduct worthy of the Accuser of …

A Wise Desire

Psalm 47:4

… I remember the case of a minister who most fearfully split on this rock. When a child had been doing something that was far from right a friend …

The Queen Of The South, Or The Earnest Enquirer

Matthew 12:42

… And there are hundreds of others who when they do come, are inattentive under the ministry, or, if they listen, pay no more real attention to it than …

Prologue — Introduction by Dinsdale T. Young

… Decidedly this selection of the great preacher's prayers supplies a want. Many of us have long hoped for such a volume and now we welcome it with …

Negotiations For Peace

Acts 10:36

… It is well when the preacher feels that preaching is no mere display, and is not intended to be an opportunity for him to show how excellent an …

Love's Vigilance Rewarded

Solomon 3:4

… It was under the ministry of the Word that most of us were born to God. It was in the assembly of the saints that we heard the …

Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy

Hosea 6:1-2

… He heard the minister exhort him to trust Christ, and he did it, and that is where he is standing now. He has been brought up out of …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

Psalm 111 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. There is no title to this psalm, but it is an alphabetical …

Invitation to a Conference

Isaiah 1:18

… As they get their solicitor to attend to their legal business, so they would prefer to have their priest, their clergyman, their minister, to see to their spiritual …

May 24 — ONE A MAJORITY!

Joshua 23:10

… The "one man ministry," as certain wise men call it, has been far more used of the Lord than trained bands with their officers. Did all the Israelites …

July 23 — ABSOLUTELY NO REMEMBRANCE

Heb. 10:17

… He counts us worthy, and gives us a ministry; this is the highest and most special proof that He does not remember our sins. Even when we forgive …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… day after day, I have wondered what their idea of true preaching could be! A minister said to me, some time ago, "I am disappointed with my people …

April 24 — CONDITION OF BLESSING

Mal. 3:10

… If there is no temporal meat for God's servants, we need not wonder if their ministry has but little food in it for our souls. When missions …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… Since then you have often stepped in to hear the minister. Not long ago you heard a powerful sermon; the minister spoke as though he were a man …

Sept. 7 — THE REACH OF ALMIGHTY GRACE

Hosea 1:10

… But now, in the same places, from the same ministry and Scripture, we hear a voice, which saith, "Ye are the sons of the living God." Can we …

The Treasure of Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… he, as a faithful minister, could deal very closely with the practical evidences of Christian character. And yet he seems to keep very much on the surface; he …

A Divine Challenge!

Exodus 8:1

… Egypt is still Egypt—the world is still the world—and as worldly as it ever was, and God's purpose seems to be, through the ministry which …

Holiness Demanded

Hebrews 12:14

… If a minister should say "duty" in the sermon, they would look as if they would never hear him again. He must be a dead legalist—a "letter …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Many a man professes to be a Christian, who is nothing better than a baptized worldling, and many a man sets up to be a minister of Christ …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… Our Lord, after showing that He was, indeed, the Messiah, by working miracles in their presence and preaching the Gospel, then said to them, "And blessed is he …

Lydia, the First European Convert

Acts 16:14

… Say at once, "If you do not need any preaching, I do not need to preach to you. I am not so fond of preaching as all that …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… The question was put to her, "Will you go with this man?" So the minister's business is to commend his Master and his Master's riches and …

The War of Truth

Exodus 17:9

… You are a preacher; preach as God giveth you ability, remembering that he requireth of no man more than he hath given to him; therefore, be not discouraged …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… At other times God holds up His people by the ministry of the Word of God. I have often been told that when you have come in here …

The Lover of God's Law Filled With Peace

Psalm 119:165

… have done preaching. If I have honestly preached what I believe to be in God's Word, I am free from all responsibility for my ministry. My responsibility …

The Plumb Line

Amos 7:7

… Then might you say in your despair, "O cursed preacher! O unfaithful minister! You tried to tickle our ears with pleasant things but you left out all allusions …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… May none of us in our churches have to mourn over the ministry, the Sabbath school, the missionary work, the visiting, the street preaching, left to be carried …

The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church

Haggai 2:4-5

… The Spirit of God remaineth among you to aid and assist the ministry which He has already given . Oh, that the prayers of God's people would always …

"Waters To Swim In"

… By our Savior's preaching, a few disciples, some of whom became Apostles, were converted. These were the means of the conversion of a still larger number. But …

Evening, November 29

Ex 35:8

… Whenever our ministry is without unction, what miserable stuff it becomes! nor are the prayers, praises, meditations, and efforts of private Christians one jot superior. A holy anointing …

Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing

Deuteronomy 29:4

… They have also tasted of the Lord's goodness in their own lives—and they have heard His voice in the preaching of the Gospel, for Jesus Christ …

Morning, July 15

Le 6:13

… Have you nothing to pray for? Let us suggest the Church, the ministry, your own soul, your children, your relations, your neighbours, your country, and the cause of …

God's Prison, Warden and Prisoner

… This warden is not the minister. The minister has to preach and assist me, but the minister is not to take care of my soul as though I …

The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind

John 3:8

… Somebody remarked concerning a certain minister that he was a most unfair preacher because he always exhausted the subject and left nothing for anybody else to say. That …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

Psalm 79 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE AND SUBJECT. A Psalm of Asaph. A Psalm of complaint such as …

Redemption and Its Claims

1 Corinthians 6:20

… Sometimes when I have said a humorous thing in preaching I have not asked you to excuse me, for if God has given me humor I mean to …

Evening, July 31

1Ch 9:33

… As mercy did not cease to rule either by day or by night, so neither did music hush its holy ministry. My heart, there is a lesson sweetly …

Morning, August 18

Je 51:51

… How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… than preaching. they lived out the Gospel; and all the men had something to say. They did not leave it as you do to your minister serving God …

The Jeer Of Sarcasm, And The Retort Of Piety

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… One says the minister is a, “yes-no” preacher. Another says he is too high in Doctrine. One will accuse him of being sanctimonious. Another will charge him …