Preaching & Ministry

The Good Ananias—a Lesson for Believers

Acts 9:10

… We remember reading that in a Scottish assembly, a Moderate minister, famous in his day, talked of the proposal to send missionaries to the heathen as the greatest …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

Psalm 34 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove …

A Jealous God

Exodus 34:14

… The minister of Christ should unrobe himself of every rag of praise. “You preached well,” said a friend to Jolin Bunyan one morning. “You are too late,” said …

The Vision of the Field

Ezekiel 36:9

… This Book of Ecclesiastes begins thus—"The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all …

The Well-Beloved's Vineyard

… 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 …

To the Saddest of the Sad

Exodus 6:9

… It is ever so with the preacher of the gospel: if he declares the word of the Lord as he has received it, whether men will hear or …

Under Arrest

Galatians 3:23

… I am sorry that it should be so, but I know that it is so—there is a great deal of preaching that may be edifying to Christians …

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… He does not want the preacher to flatter him. Some do, you know. They must have very pretty words spoken about the dignity of human nature, the universal …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… If we will keep to the preaching that the Lord bids us, we shall not fail in our ministry. 3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according …

Our Youth Renewed

Psalm 103:5

… It is not even private prayer—it is God IN the prayer, God IN the preacher, God IN the ordinance, so that you not only have everything from …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… Oh Sir! It is one thing to have deceived the Elder or the deacon; it is one thing to have misled and to have cajoled the minister; it …

Fearing and Hoping

Psalm 147:11

… Suppose a man is a child of God and a preacher of the Word—and that he possesses peculiar gifts to set forth the Truth of God—let …

Our Glorious Leader

Luke 19:28

… Many a time a man will come up to the House of Prayer, and he has a trouble that has been plowing up and down, and the minister …

Fountains of Repentant Tears

Mark 14:72

… there, in this great throng, one who used to be a preacher of the Gospel, a minister of Christ, and who has turned aside? Such men are not …

First Things First

… I am so in the habit of preaching that almost of necessity my talk drops into sermon form. I have heard a story of a painter of signboards …

The True Christian’s Blessedness

Romans 8:28

… All men are called by the ministry, by the Word, by daily providence, to love God, there is a common call always given to men to come to …

Salvation by Grace

Ephesians 2:5

… deeds on behalf of Israel, have made this the distinguishing characteristic of their ministry—the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace in contradistinction of salvation by works. In Augustine …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… Well, if it is any consolation to you to know it, I know a minister of Christ who the longer he lives, thinks less and less of himself …

The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved

Psalm 127:2

… I have not courted any man’s love; I asked no man to attend my ministry; I preach what I like, and when I like, and as I …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

Psalm 78 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. Maschil of Asaph. This is rightly entitled an instructive Psalm. It is …

Three Important Precepts

Proverbs 23:19

… Go and listen to what it is which you are to believe and, as you hear it, if it is faithfully proclaimed and if the preacher is, in …

Freedom At Once and Forever

Isaiah 61:1

… And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down. In those days, the preacher sat down, and those who listened stood …

A Hard Case

Job 33:14-18

… There is the preacher, for instance. They have heard such strange stories concerning him that they will not listen to him. The very people, too, who profess to …

Kicking Against The Pricks

Acts 9:5

… I cannot afford to lose money and therefore I will abuse the preacher." The guilty conscience cries, "I will pick a hole in the minister's coat because …

God's Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… sea without a shore, an ocean without a bottom—we will keep on preaching for another 1900 years, if the Lord does not come—and we shall never …

Heart'S Ease

Psalm 112:7

… I have long ago said farewell to my character—I lost it in the earlier days of my ministry by being a little more zealous than suited a …

Reasons For Parting With Sin

Isaiah 1:18

… They would be very sorry if they were not able to enter the place where their favorite minister preaches, for he affords them much delight and even when …

A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion

Matthew 21:28-32

… What is the use of such a physician? Of what service is a minister who will truckle to depraved tastes and sinful appetites, and say, “How would you …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

Psalm 35 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Psalm of David. Here is all we know concerning this Psalm …

Mealtime In The Corn Fields

Ruth 2:14

… upon the preacher! How often do we censure where our God approves. We have heard of a high doctrinal deacon who said to a young minister who was …

Sight For Those Who See Not

John 9:39

… faithful preacher of the Word who, in the middle of his sermon, suddenly stopped and cried, "Woe is me! What am I doing? I am preaching Christ to …

The Lord'S Care Of His People

Zechariah 2:8

… Well, perhaps Fox is correct, but still I do not see the connection between his dropping down dead and the language he employed, for many a preacher who …

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… Such thoughts as these, in the times when our heart is much distracted, will be found to minister not merely consolation, but a deep, profound quiet and even …

Fallen Angels a Lesson To Fallen Men

2 Peter 2:4

… There is also a great difference between office and person; therefore, a man may not say, "I am a minister: I shall be kept faithful in the church …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… But instead thereof, the young minister attaches himself to some eminent model, and copies, not only the expressions, but the very tones, the action, nay the whims and …

Restraining Prayer

Job 15:4

… If there is no other person in this Congregation to whom the preacher will speak personally, he feels shamefully conscious that he will have to speak very plainly …

"I and the Children"

Isaiah 8:18

… Just as the minister who brings a soul to Christ is said to be the spiritual parent to such a soul, and is, indeed, instrumentally so, so the …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… Alexander Macleod, the oldest Baptist minister, I believe, in Scotland, told me that he was converted to God, upon the Calton Hill, under Rowland Hill's ministry. He …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… Now it never troubles me how a minister dresses. If he has any peculiar love for a gown, let him get into it; if he has not a …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… Ah! preacher, thy preaching may be all well and good, it may be sound enough and right enough, and it may be even edifying to the people of …