Preaching & Ministry

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… by the suggestions of angels? At any rate these bright spirits rejoice to minister to the heirs of salvation. Courage! Courage! Warriors of the Cross! March on to …

A Mighty Plea

Psalm 27:9

… First then, dear Friends, let us listen to EXPERIENCE GRATEFULLY TELLING HER TALE, "You have been my help." I, the preacher, can say, and must say, with all …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

Psalm 109 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works To The Chief Musician. Intended therefore to be sung, and sung in the …

Knowing the Lord Through Pardoned Sin

Jeremiah 31:34

… It may be He has spoken through this Book, or through His minister, or by "a still small voice" within your soul—but has the Eternal One ever …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… What are these mantles? Sometimes good men leave their books and sermons [When this discourse was delivered, in October, 1865, the preacher could scarcely have imagined that he …

Consolation In The Furnace

Daniel 3:25

… It were no waste of time for the preacher to spend half-a-dozen mornings in insisting again and again upon the necessity of the Christian being obedient …

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… There was a crowd and something that was being said by the preacher caught his ear and he stood and listened. His companions outside began to be vexed …

Bit and Bridle—How To Escape Them

Psalm 32:8

… The Lord did bless the preacher, once, and he grew so great in his own esteem that he was not bearable to these around him. For the man …

The Faithful Saying

1 Timothy 1:15

… The union of these two feelings in Paul is, by no means, an unusual occurrence among human minds, for you will generally find that the preacher who is …

Christ the Destroyer of Death

1 Corinthians 15:26

… So Christ has spared Death to make him a preacher to His saints. And you know, Brothers and Sisters, that if there had been no death, the saints …

Christ’s Estimate of His People

Solomon 4:10-11

… And then you must attend the means of grace continually; you must listen often to the preaching of the Word; and if you hear a minister who is …

In the Sunny South

… Though the preacher was out for a holiday, he gladly availed himself of the opportunity of conducting the service desired ; and after it was over, he chatted for …

The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God

Romans 8:7

… Yea, more, ye shall bring him to the house of prayer; ye shall make him sit constantly under the clearest preaching of the word, where he shall hear …

God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin

Isaiah 48:8

… Frequently the voice of God's minister has bid you to come to Jesus from the pulpit. And Conscience, a nearer pleader still, if you would but hear …

Hosanna!

Matthew 2:19

… is no more stable than smoke! It may seem good that the Christian minister should be popular, but popularity is lighter than vanity! Once the Savior rides in …

Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh

Solomon 5:13

… But it was a dreadfully dry discourse, she said, and she was foolish enough to go into the vestry and say to the preacher, "My dear Sir, I …

'Until He Finds It'

Luke 15:4

… You remember the backwoodsman who had begun to make a log hut and had not finished before up rode a Methodist minister with his saddlebags? With an oath …

Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church

Zechariah 6:13

… Any company of Christian men, gathered together in holy bonds of communion for the purpose of receiving God’s ordinances, and preaching what they regard to be God …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… a preacher, but they as often delude him. Let him be on his guard and try well, with searching Truths of God and with the untiring preaching of …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… Then did my heart leap with joy! You notice that I am always preaching that Doctrine of Substitution. I cannot help it, because it is the only Truth …

Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope

Isaiah 57:10

… And simple as such a work may seem to be, every truly experienced minister is brought to confess that it needs a Divine art and Omnipotent power to …

The Strong One Driven Out By A Stronger One

Luke 11:21-26

… He will let you go to those places where the minister never attacks the conscience and never cries aloud against sin—for he feels that there his kingdom …

God-Guided Men

Galatians 1:16

… to earn his living as a tentmaker and to be a simple itinerant preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He descended from comparative ease and luxury to …

A Blessed Gospel Chain

John 14:23

… You know that in the Church of England service there are certain places where the clergyman says, "saying after me," so that it is not simply the minister …

The Ever-Living Christ

Revelation 1:18

… Oh, how the Spirit of God is neglected in many sermons! I heard of one preacher, of whom it was said that people who listened to him did …

Fencing the Table

1 Corinthians 11:28

… as a minister, am bound to examine myself because there have been eminent preachers of the Gospel who, nevertheless, have lived unhallowed lives. No preacher may dare to …

The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed

Ezekiel 34:27

… Or, perhaps, which is somewhat worse, their faith as to God rests upon excitement, upon association, upon the eloquence of a favorite preacher, or something of that sort …

Entangled in the Land

Exodus 14:3

… One preacher cries up one thing and another quite the contrary, till young converts cry, "Who are we to believe?" And they stand as if they had come …

A Free Salvation

Isaiah 55:1

… He was preaching in a fair, and he heard a man selling his goods. “Ah!” said he, “as for those people over there, their difficulty is to bring …

A Root Out Of A Dry Ground

Isaiah 53:2

… There remained not even a Jonah to startle, or a Haggai to rebuke! No wise man gave forth his proverbs, nor preacher took up his parable. The nation …

Sham Conversion

2 Kings 17:25

… The preacher ought to preach so that it shall be almost an impossibility for his hearer to be altogether careless. You Christian people should set such an example …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… And when I got in, the preacher read his text—"Look unto Me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth." It was a blessed text …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… HOW IS IT POSSIBLE for the preacher to say too much about faith, or to extol this grace too highly! It is of vital importance, not at one …

The Sojourn in Mesech

Psalm 120:5

… Give me a tongue and let me he a preacher, for the noble army of the Apostles is more noble than the glorious hosts of cherubim and seraphim …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… If he still attends the place where he went before to hear the Gospel, he says that the minister does not preach as he used to do, and …

The Census of Israel

Numbers 16:66

… It was taken scarcely 38 years ago and yet, of the entire group, only I survive! Those associates of the youthful preacher have all gone to their reward …

The Best War Cry

Numbers 23:21

… No bit could be put into their mouths to hold them in, for they went everywhere preaching the Word of God! Of the true Israel it shall be …

Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men

Romans 2:16

… with emphasis—"my gospel." Now let us notice what it was that brought up this expression, "My gospel." What was Paul preaching about? Certainly not upon any of …

The Life-look

Isaiah 45:22

… You have often heard me tell how I had been wandering about, seeking rest and finding none, till a plain, unlettered lay preacher among the Primitive Methodists stood …

Our Service For Christ Never Finished

Luke 17:7-10

… During the last 40 years of his life he was a minister and he said, one day, "I have had two flocks. The first 40 years I fed …