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A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted
Psalm 31:22
… The children of God delight in doctrinal preaching and in practical preaching—but I believe that nothing is so sweet to them as experimental preaching by which we …
SERMON • SERMON 3002The Best Thing in the Best Place
Psalm 37:31
… The preacher said, "Here we have the best thing—'Your Word.' In the best place—'have I hid in my heart.' For the best of purposes—'that I …
SERMON • SERMON 1846The Purging of the Conscience
Hebrews 9:13
… I felt, when preaching upon it, that I had not reserved due space for the latter and more important part of the text—it is my purpose to …
SERMON • SERMON 1583Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan
Exodus 33:14
… Think them over and use them as food for your souls—with them you may well be content even if the preacher's lips should be shut up …
SERMON • SERMON 1790Receiving the Holy Spirit
Acts 19:2
… your children shall be taught of the Lord." To be taught of the minister is nothing—but to be taught of the Lord is everything! It is only …
SERMON • SERMON 1930Is It True?
Daniel 3:14
… If their minister, or some other leading person were taken away, their back wall would be gone and they would fall to the ground. In some cases the …
SERMON • SERMON 1573Bad Lodgers and How To Treat Them
Jeremiah 4:14
… And if the minister does speak pointedly, they say, "I do not think he has any right to talk in that way. People should be charitable." Is it …
SERMON • SERMON 2186Our Expectation
Isaiah 53:10
… yet an old man, as some suppose from the many years of my ministry, but I am often looking forward to that blessed morning when all the sacred …
SERMON • SERMON 2545The Greatest Folly in the World
Romans 3:11
… I shall leave you to judge who is nearer the truth—a good and faithful preacher of the Lord in the days gone by—or the refined flatterers …
SERMON • SERMON 933Angelic Studies
Ephesians 3:10
… vehemently sets forth the yearnings of his heart in the exercise of his ministry, "to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from …
SERMON • SERMON 366The Silver Trumpet
Isaiah 1:18
… It was a preaching that was meant for the worst of men! Look at that parable of the feast, "Go you into the highways and hedges." Go and …
SERMON • SERMON 2850The New Song and the Old Story
Psalm 96:1-3
… I remember a criticism upon a certain minister's prayers. It was reported, in the newspaper, that he uttered the finest prayer that had ever been offered to …
SERMON • SERMON 86Unimpeachable Justice
Psalm 51:4
… is my minister looking down reprovingly on me, and saying, ‘Sinner, I warned thee.’” If thou art lost, it is not for want of preaching; if thou art …
SERMON • SERMON 291A Christmas Question
Isaiah 9:6
… It reminds me of the history of a godly man named Simon Brown, a minister in the olden times in the City of London. He became so extremely …
SERMON • SERMON 306Resurgam
1 Corinthians 15:35-38
… Take another—one used of old by that mighty preacher, Chrysostom—there is an old house, a straight and narrow cottage, and the inhabitant of it often shivers …
SERMON • SERMON 3440Attention!
Matthew 17:5
… They will hear the preaching that sets forth the precious Doctrines of Grace and the sweet promises of the Covenant with very great delight, as I hope we …
SERMON • SERMON 257The Scales of Judgment
Daniel 5:27
… I may bring my witnesses with me; I may bring my minister and the deacons of the church to give me a character, which might be thought all …
SERMON • SERMON 1015The One Thing Needful
Luke 10:42
… I desire not to be troubled about my preaching, nor to be cumbered about anything beneath the sun, but to leave all these, as he would have me …
SERMON • SERMON 2449The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ
John 12:26
… my servant." Well now, if I, as a Christian minister, become a teacher of philosophy instead of a preacher of the Truths of the Gospel. If I receive …
SERMON • SERMON 1027The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People
Nehemiah 8:10
… Quaint George Herbert has said— “Praying’s the end of preaching.” Might he not have gone further and have said, praising’s the end of praying? After all …
SERMON • SERMON 3539Fine Pleading
Psalm 106:4
… If You call me, Lord, to minister to this great people, as my day is, so may my strength be. As You have dealt with others of Your …
SERMON • SERMON 2337The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient
Matthew 9:2-7
… I remember an old woman who went to hear a minister of a certain creed that she did not like, though he preached uncommonly well. And when she …
SERMON • SERMON 3160The Call of 'Today'
Hebrews 3:7
… An aged minister, an excellent man, came into my vestry and shook my hand and said, "I have got this letter which I would like you to see …
SERMON • SERMON 2549Luminous Words
1 Peter 4:1-3
… And even what the preacher says, though perfectly pure, may raise before the mind some impure thought, some unhallowed act. It is a blessed thing for a man …
SERMON • SERMON 1486The Shame and Spitting
Isaiah 50:6
… a living word which the preacher delivers fresh as the manna which fell from heaven. The word should come from the minister like bread hot from the oven …
COMMENTARYPsalm 22
Psalm 22
Psalm 22 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Work TITLE. "To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar. A Psalm of David." This …
SERMON • SERMON 6Sweet Comfort for Feeble Saints
Matthew 12:20
… As for a minister of the gospel, he is of some service; as for a deacon of the church, he is of some use; as for a Sabbath …
SERMON • SERMON 2495Defiled and Defiling
Haggai 2:13
… the preacher proclaimed the mercy of God, so I am going to live in sin." Brute beast are you to talk like that! Another says, "the minister told …
SERMON • SERMON 457Religion—a Reality
Deuteronomy 32:47
… or rather sink you to hell, as the performances of the best ordained minister under heaven. Ceremonies in themselves are vain, futile, empty. There are but two of …
SERMON • SERMON 2754Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations
Hosea 2:14
… I seemed to be shut in by a black wall while the minister's eyes appeared to be looking down into my soul. I believed that the good …
SERMON • SERMON 1290Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence
Proverbs 14:26
… It was the custom of the Court preacher to present the king with something on his birthday and Latimer presented Henry VIII with a pocket handkerchief with this …
SERMON • SERMON 150India’s Ills and England’s Sorrows
Jeremiah 9:1
… I have never dreaded your frowns; I have been in weariness oftentimes, when I should have rested, preaching God’s Word. But what of that? That were nothing …
SERMON • SERMON 3062The Spirit's Office Towards Disciples
John 16:14
… When Luther's preaching began to tell upon men, you could hear plowmen at the plow-tail singing Luther's Psalms. Whitefield and Wesley would never have done …
SERMON • SERMON 56Heaven
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
… At other times we have been entranced with the voice of the preacher, and with the remarkable sayings which he has uttered; we have been charmed by his …
SERMON • SERMON 90Men Chosen—Fallen Angels Rejected
Hebrews 2:16
… Some may rail at this doctrinal preaching, and they will go out and call me an Antinomian. I will not be at all particular about that, so long …
SERMON • SERMON 2572Fellowship With Christ
1 Corinthians 10:16
… He is in an open field and he is preaching to the people with hands uplifted and with an earnestness that makes him eloquent. Look! He has concluded …
SERMON • SERMON 160Light at Evening Time
Zechariah 14:7
… use, when I go to the house of God the minister seems to be like Moses, only preaching the law to me—he never seems to have a …
SERMON • SERMON 611Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest
Zechariah 3:1-5
… Yet, notice where it is that Joshua stands to minister. It is before the Angel of Jehovah. You and I can never stand to minister before Moses, the …
SERMON • SERMON 17Joseph Attacked by the Archers
Genesis 49:23
… Tiplash, a very fine intellectual preacher, who, in one of his flights of oratory, said, “O Virtue, thou art so fair and lovely, if thou wert to come …
SERMON • SERMON 3344Unanswered Prayer
Psalm 22:2
… If, for instance, a Christian minister asks that he may win souls in order that he may gain reputation and fame as a useful and successful Evangelist for …