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An Ancient Question Modernized
Ezekiel 24:19
… After the service, the good old saint said, "I enjoyed your preaching, but I did not enjoy your praying. I did not say, 'Amen,' when you asked the …
SERMON • SERMON 1086Jesus, The King of Truth
John 18:37
… Little enough did He say in His preaching concerning His birthright as the Son of David and a scion of the royal house of Judah, for He shrank …
SERMON • SERMON 2365"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"
2 Chronicles 24:2
… I was very happy, last Sunday night, in preaching as I believe so as to suit the case of one young man of whom I knew but very …
SERMON • SERMON 2268A Question for Communicants
Exodus 12:26
… Then you will be like the woman who said that when she heard a sermon about light weights and short measures, though she forgot what the preacher said …
SERMON • SERMON 3391Preparation for the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:28
… May not the preacher be deceived? May not Elders and deacons, who have been in honor these many years, be, nevertheless, rotten at heart? May not members of …
SERMON • SERMON 2887A Dire Disease Strangely Cured
Isaiah 53:5
… IT is well for the preacher, every now and then, to go back to the very beginning and once again traverse the whole ground of the Gospel, just …
SERMON • SERMON 3064'And It Was So'
Genesis 1:7
… When all flesh had corrupted its way, God repented that He had made man, and sent His servant Noah as a preacher of righteousness to threaten a universal …
SERMON • SERMON 499The Clean and the Unclean
Leviticus 11:2
… May the Lord deliver my ministry from ever being comfortable and flattering to souls that live in sin. I hope you will sometimes have to say, “I must …
SERMON • SERMON 1006Christ Is All
Colossians 3:11
… This labor after flowery speech, this seeking after polished periods and gaudy sentences, what is it but a pandering to the world, and a prostitution of the ministry …
SERMON • SERMON 2664Things Unknown
Jeremiah 33:3
… It is truly consolatory to hear our minister inform us that whatever we ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive." But there the matter ends. And, except with …
SERMON • SERMON 1547Samuel and the Young Man Saul
1 Samuel 9:27
… Try and think that no one is here except the preacher and yourself and that he speaks to you when he speaks. I long this time to do …
SERMON • SERMON 2288The Empty Place—a Christmas Day Sermon
1 Samuel 20:25
… Not long at a time, perhaps, but usually some time or other during the year, this pulpit has had to be empty, so far as the regular preacher …
SERMON • SERMON 3290God's Hand at Evening
Ezekiel 33:22
… you like the minister." But really, dear Friends, that is a very unimportant question—the vital matter is—Did you see Jesus as the preacher sought to lift …
SERMON • SERMON 3185'A Song of My Beloved'
Solomon 2:16
… is to go and hear a faithful minister. Last Sabbath morning, I sat and listened to a very simple-minded preacher in a Wes-leyan Chapel. He was …
SERMON • SERMON 1587Jesus At A Standstill
Mark 10:49
… But Jesus was not an immovable statue of benevolence! He was active and energetic—an itinerant Preacher who never wearied in His circuit. One does not often see …
SERMON • SERMON 2573Unparalleled Suffering
1 Peter 3:18
… I will not attempt to lift the veil where God has let it fall, but I see, in the whole public ministry of Christ, traces of a wonderful …
SERMON • SERMON 2477Darkness Before the Dawn
Solomon 2:17
… myriads who have gone to their eternal rest— and we do not intend preaching anything else until somebody can find us something better—and that will not be …
SERMON • SERMON 2099Concerning the Consolations Of God
Job 15:11
… For the ministry is the same to other saints, the Scriptures must be the same, and the Mercy Seat is not removed. The fault is not in these …
SERMON • SERMON 1713Other Sheep and One Flock
John 10:16
… Christ must have His people, what is the good of preaching?" What would be the good of preaching if it were otherwise? Why, dear Sir, this fact is …
SERMON • SERMON 179The Great Reservoir
Proverbs 4:23
… you will go on well enough. “O,” saith the preacher, “I am weary of my work in preaching; I have little success; I find it a hard toil …
COMMENTARYPsalm 101
Psalm 101
Psalm 101 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Psalm of David. This is just such a psalm as the …
SERMON • SERMON 44Repentance Unto Life
Acts 11:18
… I have often thought it was a very beautiful instance, showing the power of penitence which a pious minister once related. He had been preaching on penitence, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1888The Blood of Sprinkling
Hebrews 12:24
… they take away that which is its life and speech? Unless the preacher is evermore preaching this blood, and sprinkling it by the doctrine of faith, his teaching …
SERMON • SERMON 2951With or Without Shedding of Blood
Hebrews 9:22
… Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood; and without …
SERMON • SERMON 2037The Rule of the Race
Hebrews 12:1
… Oh, I talk to you now about being with Him and how soon this may be realized in the most literal sense! During my ministry in this place …
SERMON • SERMON 517The Rainbow
Genesis 9:16
… As a preacher of righteousness he understood well enough that on grounds of justice he had no claim upon the Most Holy God, and he would not venture …
SERMON • SERMON 2183A Gracious Dismissal
Luke 7:50
… Yes, I think that I shall go a little further and say that I think the Savior, then and there, dismissed her from that high ministry which, for …
SERMON • SERMON 2921An Old-fashioned Remedy
Psalm 107:20
… If you who are hearers have a choice in the matter, frequent a ministry that is full of Scripture. You are more likely to get a blessing, there …
SERMON • SERMON 2021Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward
John 1:50
… He would "come and see." How many there are who make objections but they will not "come and see"! They have heard concerning a certain preacher, perhaps, such …
SERMON • SERMON 2419Repentance after Conversion
Psalm 51:17
… What a powerful preacher a mother is to her boy! What an influential preacher is a father to his son! What a mighty preacher one workmen may be …
SERMON • SERMON 1349Faith Purifying the Heart
Acts 15:9
… It may be that their failure in this direction sours them and sets them upon opposing the Gospel ministry. At any rate, they are a set of theorizers …
SERMON • SERMON 2805'Life for a Look'
Isaiah 45:22
… The ministry of the Word— and the Inspired Word as we have it recorded in this Book—these are precious things. But they are only like the porch …
SERMON • SERMON 1725Imitators of God
Ephesians 5:1
… Holiness is true preaching and preaching of the most successful kind. What a support it is to the preacher when he has a people around him who are …
SERMON • SERMON 1302Good Cheer For Outcasts
Psalm 147:2
… The minister of Christ may appeal to them, but he will appeal in vain. And Providence may warn them, by the deaths of others and by personal sickness …
SERMON • SERMON 1261Sow To Yourselves
Hosea 10:12
… Pray God to forgive the preacher his mistakes, but do not follow him. Pray to "sow to yourselves in righteousness." Receive the Truth of God and only the …
SERMON • SERMON 232Perfection in Faith
Hebrews 10:14
… Oh! I delight to think that although in preaching the gospel I am in my own estimation and in yours rightly enough, imperfect; yet when God makes use …
SERMON • SERMON 699Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus
Romans 8:3
… He pursued it by day in His ministry and by night in His prayers. He lived to smite it and he died to destroy it! And now in …
SERMON • SERMON 1255How To Converse With God
Job 13:22
… A missionary, some years ago, returning from South Africa, gave a description of the work which had been accomplished there through the preaching of the Gospel. Among other …
SERMON • SERMON 1288Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus
John 6:53-56
… that Jesus claims to be, "meat indeed." Do you ever attend a ministry where the preacher preaches anything and everything but Christ? Do you get fed? Well, if …
SERMON • SERMON 328True Prayer—True Power!
Mark 11:24
… because the one is praying, and the other is preaching. Allow me to quote what an old preacher said upon the subject of prayer, and give it to …