Preaching & Ministry

"The Ark of His Covenant"

Revelation 11:19

… Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood; and without …

True and Not True

John 9:31

… to my prayers, always anchored me fast! On one occasion, in my early ministry, I mentioned this circumstance when I was addressing some Sunday school children in a …

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… so many years, or even because we have sustained a long and useful ministry, we are therefore beyond gun-shot of the enemy, or without necessity to seek …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… Since that you have often been called under the ministry. Our sermons have not been all shots wide of the mark, but sometimes a hot shot has burnt …

The Last Message for the Year

John 6:37

… Oh, it is heart-breaking work to keep on preaching Christ to sinners who will not come to Him, holding up Christ before eyes that see no beauty …

The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People

Mark 15:23

… In His preaching He had been accustomed to say, "Verily, verily," and here He is, even on the Cross, still the same Preacher, for there was such assurance …

All Comers To Christ Welcomed

John 6:37

… from the eternal Throne of God—but if it is not so, our preaching is in vain—and your faith is also in vain. See what would follow …

The Friend of God

Isaiah 41:8

… I have sometimes wished that I had nothing else to do but to dwell with God in prayer, praise and preaching. If it were not for the thousand …

Your Personal Salvation

1 Peter 1:9-12

… To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things which are now reported to you by them that have preached …

Young Man! A Prayer For You

2 Kings 6:17

… On this occasion, I can truly say that I am praying much more than I am preaching. While I am standing here before you, I am also bowing …

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… They had not the proper gifts and qualifications for the ministry, but they felt that they must preach—so they have strived very hard, but at all points …

A Simple Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… To what purpose are fine speeches in the Gospel ministry? Sicknesses are not healed by eloquence! It was an ill day in which rhetoric crept into the Church …

The Believer's Heritage of Joy

Psalm 119:111

… Rowland Hill, having determined to give to some poor minister a hundred pounds, sent him £5 and wrote in the envelope, "More to follow." To his surprise, at …

Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

Jeremiah 31:18

… Now sin, as the preacher talks of it, is to most of you like a painted lion. But when a man feels it in his own soul as …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… If you only know Him by the ear through the preacher, what good will it do you? You are sick and there is the medicine—you can interpret …

The Healing of One Born Blind

John 9:32

… It is very humbling, sometimes, to a preacher who thinks, "Well, I did preach a pretty fair sermon that time," to find God does not care a pin …

One Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:12

… Our Lord Jesus has completed the atoning sacrifice and the justifying righteousness by which lost men are saved—happy is the preacher of such tidings and blessed are …

The Maintenance of Good Works

Titus 3:3-8

… The preacher is preaching up works instead of Divine Grace." What? Do you dare to say that? I will meet you face to face at God's right …

Where Is the God of Elijah?

2 Kings 2:14

… as, "Where is Jehovah, Himself?" Brothers and Sisters, we love beyond expression the ministry of God's Word—it has been unspeakably precious to our spirits! By it …

Our Gifts and How To Use Them

2 Timothy 1:6

… use your powers of utterance in His cause. "But I am not a minister!" What do you mean by that? Do you find anything in Scripture about clergy …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… For the preacher of Christ to be honest and fearless, and to speak unpalatable Truth is right in God's sight. But to gloss over the great facts …

Heaven's Nurse Children

Hosea 11:3

… still, but, under a gracious word that he sent to us, through the ministry, or by some other means, he lifted us up, and we began to feel …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… According to our Lord's testimony, the preaching of the Gospel to the poor is as great a proof of His Messiahship as the raising of the dead …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… by the falling away of a false professor, or the failure of the ministry in any place, let us give Him all the more honor, ourselves, and in …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… There is so much feeble preaching, mere twaddling, and so little declaration of the Gospel with power. But I do not know that I will pray that prayer …

The True Priesthood, Temple and Sacrifice

1 Peter 2:4

… This is to be your function and ministry always and in every place. You are an holy priesthood not only on the Lord's Day when you come …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… that is connected with the Savior ought to play its part in our ministry, yet this is the master theme. The atoning work of Jesus is the great …

The Perpetuity of the Gospel

Luke 21:33

… First, I am sure that it has a relation to the preacher. My text innately concerns me and all who are called to be ministers of the Gospel …

Strong Faith

Romans 4:20

… I remember once speaking of my own trembling, when preaching, and a venerable Brother said to me afterwards, "I do not think, dear Pastor, that you were right …

"All of One"

Hebrews 2:11-13

… not as to outsiders, but as to "brethren." He had one way of preaching to the crowd and He had quite another way of privately talking to His …

A Word in Season

Job 22:29

… And at a funeral, what an opportunity the Christian minister may often have, and not the Christian minister only, but any of you! When God's great minister …

The Glory of Our Strength

Psalm 89:17

… very people, if they are the Lord's people—do not need "intellectual preaching" at all! They have enough work for their intellect on the other six days …

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… with his fierce temptations and, if possible, destroy Him before He began His ministry! But that young Christ, freshly anointed of the Spirit, was more than a match …

Peace—a Fact and a Feeling

Romans 5:1

… If it is so, my hearers shall be the gainers, for all my strength has been and always shall be laid out in my ministry. I am right …

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… A preacher who is great at spiritualizing has well said on this verse, ‘The straight stalk, standing up erect from the earth, its flowers as high from the …

The Secret of Failure

Matthew 17:19-21

… The minister, also, can get into a way of preaching that is almost like a parrot repeating by rote what it has been taught to say. This will …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… He says—"Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it." Do we not remember how, when their public ministry …

The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace

John 1:14

… Our Lord's ministry is not truth alone, nor grace alone; but it is a balanced, well-ordered system of grace and truth. The Lord Himself is in …

A Greater Than Solomon

Luke 11:31

… Proverbial wisdom cannot match His sayings, nor can ‘The Preacher’ rival His sermons, and even the divine Song itself would remain without a meaning’an allegory never to …

A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter

James 1:12

… He cast everything into the crucible and he brought out of it, not gold, but ashes! "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity." This is the …