Preaching & Ministry

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

Psalm 116 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works SUBJECT. This is a continuation of the Paschal Hallel, and therefore must in …

The Heart Of Flesh

Ezekiel 36:26

… Ask the Lord to make your minister faithful to you, allow him to use the lance to open the wound and cut out the proud flesh. Yes, ask …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… I remember what an old preacher once did when visited by one of his members who said he feared he gained no good, for his memory was bad …

A Bad Excuse Is Worse Than None

Luke 14:18

… If the preacher's sword should be too sharp for you and make your conscience bleed, the Evil One has a Satanic plaster with which he very soon …

The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus

Luke 22:19

… It was not a ceremony that required a minister or a priest. When Believers were together they broke bread in memory of Christ—any two or three of …

My Last Letters from Mentone

… But, alas ! each year, some part of the holiday time at Mentone was overshadowed by what appeared to be an inevitable illness, when the dear preacher was laid …

A Woman's Memorial

Matthew 26:13

… Perhaps we are preaching with a sincere desire to do good to our fellow-men: so far so good; but even that is not so grand a motive …

Morning, November 27

Zec 3:1

… But this high priest is said to be “ standing before the angel of the Lord,” that is, standing to minister. This should be the perpetual position of every …

The Sixth Beatitude

Matthew 5:8

… I remember preaching, once, in a country town just about harvest time—and in commenting on the fact that some farmers would not let the poor have any …

Jerusalem the Guilty

Luke 13:33

… His words moved many— souls were converted under his ministry, souls that shall make glad the angels of God throughout eternity! He comforted the saints and many disciples …

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… Somehow or other, we feel knit together by such ties of love! Last Sabbath I went into a place where the minister gave us the vilest stuff that …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… Now, it is at all times exceedingly difficult for the preacher either to speak or to write upon this subject; it demands the strictest care to keep the …

Fragrant Spices From the Mountains of Myrrh

… She is “all fair.” Her ministry, her psalmody, her intercessions, her alms, her watching, all are admirable to Him, when performed in the Spirit. Her faith, her love …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

Psalm 38 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. A Psalm of David, to bring remembrance. David felt as if he …

God's Will About the Future

James 4:13-17

… You do not obey your parents, young man, and yet you are going to be a minister, are you? A pretty minister will you make! As an apprentice …

“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”

1 Corinthians 15:19

… A minister of Christ going to visit a very, very poor man, gives this description. He says, “I found him alone, his wife having gone out to ask …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… Mack, who was a Baptist minister in Northamptonshire. In his youth he was a soldier and, calling on Robert Hall, when his regiment marched through Leicester, that great …

Warning and Encouragement

Genesis 27:38

… Our minister does not try to make a display of oratory—he always aims at preaching to our hearts. I know that he wants to bring me to …

Psalm 54

Psalm 54

Psalm 54 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works TITLE. To the Chief Musician on Neginoth. The music was to be that …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… A minister said to me last Thursday evening what I have often felt to be true—"We had need make coming to Christ very plain, for many people …

Expiation

Isaiah 53:10

… If he had not completed his work of penalty-suffering, he would have been left in the tomb till now; our preaching would have been in vain, and …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… he has become a real profligate, I am very glad the minister spoke so sharp about that. As for me—there now; I don’t care about your …

Jesus, the Example of Holy Praise

… if it is not true that there is no preaching in Heaven? What if Christ is the Preacher there, speaking as never man spoke and forever instructing His …

The New Heart

Ezekiel 36:26

… when he would have me listen to the sound of the ministry, I would not. And when I heard, and the tear rolled down my cheek, I wiped …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… The great weapon of the Christian religion has been the public preaching of the Word, nor would I disparage it, but it will never evangelize the nations unless …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… You will say I am preaching a "sermon to the young" without giving notice of it, but it is also a sermon to parents. There is a supposition …

Prayer-Its Discouragements and Encouragements

Matthew 15:23

… I'll go and offer myself to the minister to be prayed for by the members and I shall get some fun out of them." He went and …

No Illusion

Acts 12:9

… May the Lord put the embers together and fan them with His breath and make them blaze again! And then our ministry shall be sent down from Heaven …

Under His Shadow

Psalm 91:1

… There is a way of preaching in which a great Divine has evidently displayed this vast learning and talent—and there is another way of preaching in which …

The Garden Of The Soul

Matthew 26:36

… Having fought Satan at the first in the wilderness, on the threshold of His public ministry, our Lord now finds him at the last in the garden as …

Holy Song From Happy Saints

Isaiah 5:1

… My Brothers and Sisters, if you happen to be members of a church divided against itself, where the ministry appears to be without power, where there are no …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… For that love of God which is the work of the Spirit of God, he brings mere natural affection for a minister and he says, "There, that will …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

Psalm 23 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works There is no inspired title to this psalm, and none is needed, for …

Is It Nothing To You?

Lamentations 1:12

… What do you see where this atoning Sacrifice is left out of the preaching? Why, very soon, empty places of worship, for the people soon find that there …

Memories of my Father

… I should like you to preach; but it is best that you pray; many a preacher has proved a castaway; but never one who has truly learned to …

More Than Conquerors

Romans 8:37

… The Christian workman at the shop testified, and the Christian minister (and these were many in those days, for all men ministered according to their ability) stood in …

Private and Confidential

Psalm 25:14

… I believe that this is especially the case with the ministry of the Word. I have sometimes been very sharply taxed about this matter. I was, a few …

Lowly Service

Numbers 4:24-26

… I have often thought of what He said when His disciples slept, not when He was preaching, but when He was doing even more than that—when, in …

"Two Immutable Things"

Ezekiel 16:8

… DURING this last summer I took a little journey into the country, as I had an opportunity of preaching and visiting in the region where I lived as …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

Psalm 24 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Work Title. A Psalm of David. From the title we learn nothing but the …