Preaching & Ministry

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… heathen might have been compelled to pay tithes for the support of the ministry and Apostle-ship. By the help of imperial prestige and patronage, nominal professors of …

Apart

Zechariah 12:12-14

… There is some particular sin in the minister's household which makes it proper that his family should mourn apart. Or, it may refer to the family of …

The Men that “Sell the Books”

… On one of these occasions, the beloved President referred in detail to the various branches of the colporteurs’ work, — preaching the gospel, conducting Sunday-schools and Bible-classes …

"My Garden"—"His Garden"

Solomon 4:16

… come to me and tell me of souls that were saved through my ministry 20 years ago. I heard, the other day, of one who was brought to …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… The text says, "He that waits upon his master shall be honored." Suppose I, as a minister, know something to be God's will, yet, nevertheless, attend to …

God's Providence

Ezekiel 1:15-19

… IN my preaching, I am constantly talking about Providence, so I thought it would be well to devote a whole sermon to explaining what I believe are God …

Our Lord's Heroic Endurance

Hebrews 12:3

… Even early in His ministry He had to endure this. At the very first sermon which He preached in the synagogue of His own town, was he received …

Secret Sins

Psalm 19:12

… You may say that I am puritanical in my preaching; God will be puritanical in judging in that great day. I may appear severe, but I can never …

Strange Ways of Love

Hosea 2:14

… And when he lay a-dying, he said to the minister, "Sir, I have made a plaster for my wound, but it will not stick." He turned over …

The Sages, The Star, and The Savior

Matthew 2:2

… You become accustomed to sit through such a part of the service, to stand and sing at such another time, and to listen to the preacher with an …

'Mr. Moody's Text'

Isaiah 12:2

… and not be afraid." I desire always to do this as God's minister. I have not always done it, I am sorry to say, yet I wish …

Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

John 18:40

… They could not have observed Him during the three years of His ministry without saying, "Never lived there such an unselfish soul as this." They must have known …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… have heard of a minister who preached for several years before he was converted, and when converted he became a very earnest preacher of the Gospel. But one …

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… Yet see what honor God puts upon His servants, because she says it was but a little after she passed them—you must go beyond the minister a …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Oh! well did the poet say,— “When any turn from Zion’s way, Alas! what numbers do!” No trial is greater to the true minister than the apostacy …

The March!

Numbers 10:35

… that such a prayer as this would well befit the tongue of a minister who lands as the first herald of the Cross in some barbarian land! My …

A Threefold Slogan

Luke 10:44

… and could say conscientiously, "My own hands have ministered to my necessities," yet preaching was the one thing he pursued as his life-work. He was a workman …

Fear Not

Revelation 1:17

… God guided the minister that day—the Word came with power and that man wept till he found the Savior! Never give up your husbands, good women, for …

Justice Vindicated And Righteousness Exemplified

Romans 3:24-26

… And where this is left out in any man's ministry, you very soon find there are more spiders than hearers, and very soon the place which might …

A Sermon of Personal Testimony

Deuteronomy 32:47

… No true minister ever trifles with the Truth of God he proclaims. I have preached the Gospel, now, these 30 years and more, and some of you will …

Death—a Sleep

1 Thessalonians 4:13

… I shall never see you again!" "What, never, Minister? Never hear your voice again?" "No, never! Unless you are in Christ now, farewell forever!" O poor Soul, what …

The Way Everlasting

Psalm 139:24

… Our following the wrong way will lead them to the wrong and we shall become a ministry of evil unto them if we choose evil unto ourselves. More …

God of the Hills and God of the Valleys

1 Kings 20:28

… a Whitfield and not help a poor local preacher holding forth upon the green? Will He assist the earnest minister who addresses thousands and desert the simple girl …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… I thank Him, thank Him humbly, but yet most joyfully for all the help and assistance given in studying and preaching the word to these mighty congregations by …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

Psalm 97 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher SUBJECT. As the fast Psalm sung the praises of the Lord in connection with the …

Christ's Prayer and Plea

Psalm 16:1

… But, instead of preaching upon it as I would have done had time permitted, I will merely give you a few notes upon it, and then you can …

The Great Emancipator

Exodus 4:22

… I could not sleep last night." No, the frogs were his bedchamber! The true preacher finds his hearer sometimes saying, "I will never go again. Wherever I am …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… But, what hard work it must be for a minister or a Sunday school teacher to go on preaching and laboring positively without success, or with so little …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… I have sometimes heard and read sermons in which the preacher said that a Christian ought to rejoice that his judge is his friend. There may be no …

The Stern Teacher

Galatians 3:24-26

… If the preacher preaches a contorting sermon, the Law says, "This is not for you. You have nothing to do with that. You are under my government, not …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… Although He still uses the ministry of the Word, for which we are thankful as for a candlestick which we trust may never be taken out of its …

All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… As I neared the chapel, I perceived that someone was in the pulpit preaching—and who should the preacher be but my dear and venerable grandfather! He saw …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… Gospel, that one soul God had given me as a fruit of my ministry made me so happy that I was ready to leap out of the body …

The Fruitless Vine

Ezekiel 15:1-2

… And while I am preaching on it, let the words go round to each one, and let the minister, and let his deacons, and let his hearers all …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… Many and many have come to these pews to listen to your minister, who had never been here but for her calm, beautiful, unobtrusive, holy life—and the …

Our Lord's Transcendent Greatness

Micah 5:4

… I see but little of it at present, but, still, He must be great unto the ends of the earth! Hard hearts will melt before the preaching of …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… Jesus comes in the preaching of the Gospel. There is never a Gospel sermon preached but it is, in fact, Jesus coming with open arms of love to …

The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves

2 Corinthians 5:5

… Up and down it he would walk when preparing his sermons, and always on Sundays when it was fair, he had half an hour there before preaching. To …

Pride the Destroyer

Habakkuk 2:4

… Bunyan said on one occasion—after he had done preaching, a Brother came to him and said, "You have preached an admirable sermon." "Ah," said Bunyan, "you are …

Three Crosses

Galatians 6:14

… There had not been in all his ministry any doctrine that he extolled more highly than that of "Christ crucified." Nor any experience that he touched on more …