Preaching & Ministry

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… There is one thing which we all of us too much becloud in our preaching, though I believe we do it very unintentionally—namely, the great truth that …

The Blood of Christ's Covenant

Zechariah 9:11

… But a minister who does not preach the Gospel and who does not live the Gospel, mocks the soul's eternal thirst! Whatever I may be, God grant …

The Only Road

John 14:6

… I am thankful to hear the practical preacher who preaches the precepts, but I do not believe in his preaching without Christ. He will get into legal bondage …

Fever and Its Cure

Luke 4:38

… I know just such women whose very life is to minister to others. Happy Peter to have such a mother-in-law! Happy mother-in-law to have …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 2:12

… Preaching made easy! We shall be favored, one of these days, with preaching machines—we have already got down to hearing machines. The mass of our hearers is …

Chiding and Cheering

John 14:9

… Preacher, teacher, visitor—may any of them find their labor of love and irksome toil, when beset with difficulties and consumed with sorrows? The young minister encountering tastes …

A Timely Expostulation

Luke 24:5

… Ah, and it is very easy for some of you to think too highly of the minister. It is possible when you have received spiritual quickening and have …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… The feebleness of the minister is no barrier to the carrying out of God's purpose, nor is the hardness of the human heart any impediment to the …

"Take Heed, Brethren"

Hebrews 3:12

… Brothers and Sisters, the watchword for every one of us is, "Take heed." You are an old Christian, but "take heed." You are a minister of the Gospel …

Remember!

Deuteronomy 15:15

… preaching of modern times is as an olive tree beaten till not a trace of fruit remains. Let it not be so with us, but let the preacher …

Boldness at the Throne

Hebrews 4:16

… I recollect, at this moment, a venerable minister who has long gone to Glory. I heard him make almost his dying speech. He had been blind for many …

High Doctrine And Broad Doctrine

John 6:37

… My own preaching has been such that young and old in equal proportions have attended it and in equal proportions they have been saved. However old you may …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… For, "If Christ is not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain. You are yet in your sins" ( 1 Cor. 15:14 , 17 …

The Throne of Grace

Hebrews 4:16

… We sometimes hear persons commended for preaching well, but if any shall be enabled to pray well, there will be an equal gift and a higher grace in …

Simple But Sound

John 9:25

… DID it ever strike you how wonderfully calm and collected our Lord must have been at this time? He had been preaching in the Temple, talking to a …

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

Joel 2:25

… Her godly, gracious husband, a minister of Christ, had laid out his heart to cheer her but she had refused to be comforted. And yet to my great …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… It was not the oratory of the preacher. It was not the earnestness, even, of my pleading teacher or friend—but the hand of God as clear in …

Guests for the Royal Feast

Matthew 22:8-10

… The preacher of the Gospel is "a sweet savor of Christ in them that are saved, and in them that perish—to the one he is a savor …

Psalm 124

Psalm 124

Psalm 124 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Song of degrees of David. Of course the superfine critics have …

A Solemn Warning for All Churches

Revelation 3:4

… EXCITED! preaching too much! when souls are lost. Why should it come to pass that one man should be perpetually labouring all the week, while others are lolling …

Self-Delusion

Luke 13:24

… O Friends, your preaching, praying, almsgiving, tract distributing—unless Divine Grace is in you—only help you in your delusion, and make it the more difficult to arouse …

The Deep-Seated Character of Sin

Jeremiah 17:1

… It is constantly dunned into our ears by the preacher. We cannot turn over a page of Holy Writ without meeting with it. What is sin? How few …

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… I thank my God always on your behalf, for the Grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ Paul is a great preacher of Divine Grace …

Rare Fruit

Isaiah 57:19

… They need a new minister every now and then, for they consider their lack of prosperity to be the minister's fault— and then they need a fresh …

God'S Witnesses

Isaiah 43:10

… You, most of you, know that I am incessantly engaged every hour in the week either in preaching the Gospel or in endeavoring to discharge the multifarious duties …

Converts, and Their Confession of Faith

Isaiah 44:5

… If we have His Presence, even the ordinary minister's preaching will suffice for great blessing to the hearers. But without that Spirit, the ordinary preaching will become …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… I have heard of one in the backwoods of America who was unloading his furniture, and while doing so up rode a Methodist minister. ‘Confound you,’ said he …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… birth? Fie upon us if there mingles a tinge of pride with our ministry, or a taint of self-laudation with our success! When we see Jesus, our …

Till We Meet Again

Revelation 22:21

… It was one of the churches that would not have any minister—a Church where they all spoke as they pleased—to whom Paul said, "God is not …

The One Foundation

1 Corinthians 3:11

… Neither can a Church be created by a mere union to a minister. It is most good and pleasant to see Brethren dwelling together in unity—it is …

A Door Opened In Heaven

Revelation 4:1

… I read a story the other day of an elder of a Scottish Church, who at the elders' meeting had angrily disputed with his minister until he almost …

The Duty of the Present Hour

Hosea 10:12

… The preacher can truly say that it is a desire which grows on him and absorbs the whole strength of his soul—the desire that you should be …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… How often ought people to recollect this when they hear a true Gospel sermon! George Herbert says, "Judge not the preacher—he is your judge." And very often …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… He ought not to be hearing a Calvinistic minister in the Morning, and saying, that is good, and then going in the evening to hear an Arminian minister …

John's First Doxology

Revelation 1:5

… Welch, a minister in Suffolk, that he was often seen to be weeping, and when asked why, he replied that he wept because he did not love Christ …

Sovereignty and Salvation

Isaiah 45:22

… The minister rose in his pulpit, and, as I have done this morning, read this text, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the …

The Eternal Truth of God

Psalm 100:5

… Spurgeon down at Stambourne, in Essex, a poor minister. He stands in need of five pounds." "Oh," said another, "don't send him five pounds. I will add …

Jesus Christ Himself

Ephesians 2:20

… When we have done preaching Christ we had better have done preaching—when you have done teaching in your classes Jesus Christ Himself, give up Sunday school work …

Love Thy Neighbour

Matthew 19:19

… Beloved, it is as much the business of God’s minister to preach man’s duty, as it is to preach Christ’s atonement; and unless he doth …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… I would now refer to "a preacher of righteousness, " "a good minister of Jesus Christ." Outline of a Sermon entitled "Attachment to Life, "preached by Joseph Hughes, M …