Preaching & Ministry

The King’s Highway Opened and Cleared

… Now, this is preaching free grace doctrine. And if any wonder how a Calvinist can preach thus, let me say that this is the preaching that Calvin preached …

Facing the Wind

2 Thessalonians 3:13

… It is not only preaching and praying and going to meetings that are to be commended. These are useful in their place. But doing good consists in taking …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… God prepares the minds of the people for the preacher as much as ever He does prepare the preacher for the people! I ask the Lord to give …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… There is many a man who has said to the preacher, by his actions if not in words, what Felix said to Paul, "Go your way for this …

The Church of Christ

Ezekiel 34:26

… So it is when God makes his people a blessing. “I will make a minister a blessing to one or two; I will then make him a blessing …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… The whole life of Christ—all His preaching upon the mountains, all His fasting in the wilderness, all His travail in birth for souls, yes, all His bloody …

"If There Is No Resurrection"

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

… Notice that the preacher does not make the Gospel. If he makes it, it is not worth your having! Originality in preaching, if it is originality in the …

"My Beloved Is Mine"

Solomon 2:16

… It was upon the text, "Now if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." Now see the difficulty of a poor minister …

Sweet Peace For Tried Believers

John 16:33

… Let us greatly prize this conclusion of the Savior's ministry! It is all the more endeared to some of us by the fact that our Lord finished …

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… you are called to emigrate, or go into the country to a bare ministry where there is nothing to feed the soul. Ah, then, if you have not …

A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families

Genesis 19:12

… Instead of one address from this pulpit, make it a thousand addresses from Christians round about! Let me give you the nail and the hammer by preaching the …

Love's Great Reason

1 John 4:19

… Brothers, for this is every true minister's desire! And you, too, who have been standing in the streets today, preaching at the corners, I hope—no, I …

Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope

Lamentations 3:21

… It is our habit, in our ministry, to avoid extremes as much as possible and to keep to the narrow path of the Truth of God. We believe …

Christ the Overcomer of the World

John 16:33

… I do not think that you can say that of anybody else's ministry, not even of the best and bravest of His servants. We can see, in …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… The preaching of the gospel is the necessity of every age; God grant that our country may never be deprived of it. Even if the Lord should send …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… Bunyan," said a friend where John had been preaching. "You are too late," said Bunyan, "the devil told me that before I came out of the pulpit." Yes …

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… have had among us the preaching of the Gospel and we have earnestly prayed for the blessing. We have gathered about Your minister and we have held him …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… By the way, the sermon was originally my own, and this the preacher acknowledged most freely! But as he preached it, I found myself melted down with the …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… A minister, for instance, thinks, “Well, now, I must not preach all the doctrines of the Gospel. it would not suit my people, there is a great deacon …

Chastened Happiness

Jeremiah 33:9

… Your pastor's ministry cannot be expected to be as fresh and vigorous as it used to be, for upon his head the gray hairs far outnumber the …

The World Turned Upside Down

Acts 17:6

… Wherever they went to preach the gospel, the Jews who opposed them sought to stir up the refuse of the city to put an end to their ministry …

Psalm 148

Psalm 148

Psalm 148 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher The song is one and indivisible. It seems almost impossible to expound it in detail …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

Psalm 96 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher SUBJECT. This Psalm is evidently taken from that sacred song which was composed by David …

Heart-Knowledge of God

Jeremiah 24:7

… It would be hard to give a new eye, or a new arm, but a new heart [intellect] is still more out of the question! All the preaching …

Certain Curious Calculations About Loaves and Fishes

Mark 8:19-21

… We may go forward with the supreme faith that Pentecost has yet to be outdone— that all the mighty preaching of the fathers, when they turned nations to …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… The critics said—and I must quote this because this sermon is very much a personal one—the critics said, when the lad commenced his preaching, that it …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… wert out of Christ ! I had been preaching the other day all the former part of the sermon, as a minister; presently I thought I was a poor …

Startling!

2 Kings 8:12

… If we ever heard a preacher speak of the fountains of the great deep of our evil heart being broken up, we thought he exaggerated. "At least," we …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

Psalm 84 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE AND SUBJECT. To the Chief Musician upon Gittith. A Psalm for the …

The Errand of Mercy

Luke 19:10

… Even the preaching of the Gospel does not suffice to bring them to a consciousness of their condition. Their conscience has become seared and their heart hardened by …

Our Compassionate High Priest

Hebrews 5:2

… Remember that temptation is one of the best books in the minister's library. To be tried, to be afflicted, to be downcast, to be tested—all this …

"Better Than Wine"

Solomon 1:2

… Oh, the love of Jesus Christ in the manger of Bethlehem, the love of Jesus in the workshop of Nazareth, the love of Jesus in His holy ministry …

A Faithful Friend

Proverbs 18:24

… The preacher adopts a sham voice. You hardly ever hear a man speak in the pulpit in the same way he would speak in the parlor. Why, I …

Burden-bearing

Galatians 6:2

… Blessed are those men and women who addict themselves to the ministry of the saints and who seek, wherever they can, to lighten the burdens of life for …

The Seed Upon a Rock

Matthew 13:5

… If anyone else is affected by the preaching of the Word, they may be affected too, or may appear to be so. They are the kind of people …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

Psalm 107 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works SUBJECT. This is a choice song for the redeemed of the Lord (Ps …

The Holy Spirit and the One Church

Jude 1:19

… Nay, further, he might go so far as to become a minister of the gospel, and a successful minister too, and God may bless the word that he …

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,

2 Corinthians 6:2

… I heard the other day of a certain Scotch moderate minister, who being much provoked by a person in his parish, said, "If I were not a minister …

Good Works

Titus 2:14

… Every Christian was sent into the world to be a preacher; and just like every other creature that God has made, he will always be preaching about his …

Pride Catechized and Condemned

1 Corinthians 4:7

… You may use this test concerning any preaching, or teaching that you meet with: if it legitimately and logically leads a man to boast of himself, it is …