Preaching & Ministry

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… I never did come upon this platform desiring that my ministry might be blessed to you months after you had heard the sermon! I trust I have prayed …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… There have been many who have been won from drunkenness by hearing the preaching of God’s Word even under myself, and those persons have been ready to …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… And when they spoke to their friend, the minister of God, they felt that they could tell him their trials and troubles, for he had felt the same …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… What will be his horror, when he finds himself cast out and hears the Lord Jesus say, "I never knew you." Your minister knew you! The deacons knew …

The Resurrection of the Dead

Acts 24:15

… But the main difference I observed was in the subjects of their preaching. Surprised I was when I discovered that the very staple of the preaching of the …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… When the soul is made to feel its barrenness and utter death and ruin—this is the finger of God! Do not speak of the minister. It was …

The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness

Ephesians 5:11

… And, believe me, there is nothing more awful than for any minister of Christ to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness by keeping back any part …

'Marvelous Things'

Psalm 98:1

… Yet remember that if it had not been so, there would have been no effective preaching of the Gospel and, this night, unless the Holy Spirit is here …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… Almost everything that the minister of the Gospel enjoys or endures will be found to be sent to him for the elect's sake, that he may know …

The Priest Dispensed With

1 John 5:10

… For the preacher there is a niche, for, "how can they hear without a preacher?" But the priest with his authority as an interpolator, like the fifth wheel …

More Room for More People

Luke 14:22

… There is—there must be room! Judging by my own experience, I say that the minister can generally feel when God is saving the souls of his hearers …

Bochim—Or, the Weepers

Judges 2:4

… It was a great Preacher and it was a great sermon! And yet there was not a great ingathering. Read the sermon through and note that though it …

The Prayer of Jabez

… Do not put in any ifs or buts.” “Woman,” said the minister, “it may be you will live to rue the day that ever you wished to set …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… The people to whom I am referring really listen to what the preacher has to say. They are attentive and they seek to retain in their memories the …

A Delicious Experience

Hebrews 4:3

… The faithful minister of God should be like the parent birds, who, when their young are old enough for flight, sometimes drive them from the nest to make …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… The preacher cannot tell you what it is to receive Christ. Human language is not adapted to convey to the mind this deep enigma, this matchless secret. We …

A Welcome for Jesus

Luke 8:40

… When Jesus took ship and crossed over to the other side of the sea, "the multitude welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him." Minister of Christ …

God's Handwriting Upon David

1 Chronicles 28:19

… Now, dear Friends, the hardest thing in the world is to give a man understanding! It is our duty, in our preaching and teaching, to make things very …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… Ah, there is no cure for some forms of distress but to go straight away to God! The scandal of our ministry is the despondency that we cannot …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… Because we reject not the ministry which God has appointed, to take up with some newly-devised scheme, by which everyone is to instruct his brother, forsooth therefore …

Psalm 4

Psalm 4

Psalm 4 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. This Psalm is apparently intended to accompany the third, and make a …

Two Loving Invitations

John 1:39

… the true preacher of Christ declares, "I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And my speech and my preaching was not …

The Christian’s Heaviness and Rejoicing

1 Peter 1:6

… I believe that through the first years of his ministry, although he might have suffered some heaviness, he usually passed over his troubles like a ship floating over …

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:2

… than make it plain and be earnest, but for all that the best ministry that ever was, or ever could be, will be unsuccessful in a measure; yea …

Quiet Musing!

Psalm 39:3

… And if this man should be a preacher, he will preach with holy power! His heart being hot, his words will burn their way into his hearers' hearts …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… church and how much of the savor of Christ there is in that ministry! It is an evil thing for a child of God to be enchanted by …

A Call to the Unconverted

Galatians 3:10

… the thought that thou art sitting in a chapel, and hearing a minister who is preaching to a large congregation. Think thou art sitting in thine own house …

The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves

2 Kings 4:38

… I call such things barking, but preaching the Gospel is biting. The surest remedy for false doctrine is preaching the Truth of God. Christianity is the cure for …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God." As far as our Lord's personal ministry among the Jewish people was concerned, it …

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… We shall look at the text carefully, and I think we shall notice in it several things which minister comfort to seeking sinners. Jesus Christ has appeared once …

The Door

John 10:9

… The Apostle does not merely mean preaching from the pulpit, but preaching anywhere and anyway—making known the Gospel by any means! It is in that way that …

Death and Life in Christ

Romans 6:8-11

… When the Lord shall be pleased to restore to his Church once more a fervent love to Christ, and when once again we shall have a ministry that …

Love's Birth and Parentage

1 John 4:19

… I was told by a venerable Brother some little time ago a story of our famous preacher, Robert Hall. He charmed the most learned by the majesty of …

Knowing and Doing

John 13:17

… If men would listen to the preaching of the Gospel but half as well as they listen to sweet music, there might be hope of its being a …

Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:9

… These sermons are publicly being read on this very Sabbath in hundreds of places where a minister cannot be found. These sermons God has blessed to the conversion …

Three Texts, But One Subject— Faith

Psalm 57:1

… IT is the preacher's business to endeavor to make plain to the people the meaning of the word, FAITH. Inasmuch as salvation comes by believing, it is …

The Spur

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… What a difference there is in preaching! Words may be uttered in a lukewarm manner and produce no result, while by another preacher nothing better shall be said …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… May the Holy Spirit make this a very practical discourse by causing you to follow her till you gain the blessing as she did! The preacher is very …

"Verily, Verily"

John 5:24

… by the gift of the Holy Spirit and by constantly fulfilling, in the ministry of Christ's Word, the promises which He made unto us in connection therewith …

What Christians Were and Are

Ephesians 2:3

… hear it mentioned, but a bloodless theology is a lifeless theology, and a ministry that can do without mentioning the blood of Christ has no power to bless …