Preaching & Ministry

A Suitable Watchword

Psalm 12:1

… Harrington Evans—perhaps a very model preacher, one who spoke very sweetly of Christ. A Brother was telling me today that he remembers hearing Mr. Evans say that …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… through the will of God." No man will ever be fit for the ministry of the Word unless he is called to it by God. This also will …

The King Feasting in his Garden

Solomon 5:1

… our older Brethren in the Church remember times of trouble, times when the ministry was not with power, when the gatherings on the Lord's-Day were joyless …

A Sermon for a Winter's Evening

John 18:18

… It is a great thing for a preacher to be able to feel that his hearers know what he has said to them. We cannot always say that …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… In fact, sometimes, "if anything is felt, it is only pain to find I cannot feel. "Yet I have been fed under the ministry. I have had many …

Jesus Calling

Matthew 11:28

… Not to doctrine, ordinance, or ministry are we to first come, but to the personal Savior. All laboring and laden ones may come—He does not limit the …

Out Of Egypt

Matthew 2:14

… Egypt, for He was no Egyptian! He did not come to exercise a ministry among the Egyptians. He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house …

Who Found It Out?

2 Kings 7:3-7

… I know that such persons do come under my ministry in extraordinary numbers. I shall know that they are here before next Sunday, for I shall hear from …

Perfect Restoration

Zechariah 10:6

… There was an hour when I stood on praying ground and pleading terms with God, and when the preacher, as best he could, pleaded with me, in God …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… Do not let any preacher be to you what Ezekiel was to the people of the age in which he prophesied. The Lord said to him, "You are …

Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners

1 Kings 20:31-34

… I know that you have attended this Tabernacle ever since it was built and listened to our ministry for years. But boast not of that! Away with that …

Under The Apple Tree

… and want to feed on it for myself, I generally get thinking about preaching upon the text, and what I should say to you from it. This will …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… Pray, also, that He may abide with me and with all my Brothers in the ministry. And may we all, in yonder world of rest, glorify Him who …

Solomon's Plea

1 Kings 8:53

… Solomon was certainly able to have found words of his own, for the royal preacher was wise and sought out acceptable words. Yet he preferred the words of …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… If I were only allowed to offer one request to you it would be this—"Brethren, pray for us." Of what use can our ministry be without the …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… What if in this congregation I am learning to proclaim my Master's Glory to myriads of worlds! Possibly the preacher who is faithful here may yet be …

A Business-Like Account

Philippians 3:7-9

… Saul the Rabbi, the intense Pharisee, he became Paul the convert and the preacher of the faith which once he destroyed, those things which had seemed very splendid …

The First Note of My Song

Psalm 103:3

… I would to God that all of you that hear me would seek personal forgiveness at this moment! Do not think of the preacher, or the heavy style …

How God Comes to Man

Genesis 3:8

… said, "Where are you?" One of the great mistakes in connection with all preaching is that so many hearers will persist in lending other people their ears. They …

Questions and Answers Concerning Zion

Isaiah 14:32

… It is a very hopeful thing when you, my Brothers in the ministry, get an attentive audience to listen to you. Mind that you always give them something …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… teaching of theological professors! A man might spend a century under the best ministry, or in the best school that ever existed on earth and yet, at the …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

Psalm 53 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher TITLE. To the Chief Musician. If the leader of the choir is privileged to sing …

The Tent Dissolved and the Mansion Entered

2 Corinthians 5:1

… and building up saints—and he was fully resolved to keep to the ministry which he had received. He argues with himself that his most dangerous course would …

Walking in the Light of the Lord

Isaiah 2:5

… I felt then that I must go on preaching, for this was a seal, set to my commission, for which I blessed the Lord day and night. I …

The Gladness of the Man of Sorrows

Psalm 45:7

… When he entered upon his public ministry, sorrows in troops beset him, so that the countenance once fairer than the children of men, became more marred than that …

"This Thing Is From Me"

1 Kings 12:24

… I hope the net result of our ministry will not be like that of the famous leader who, with his troops, marched up a hill and then marched …

Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?

John 1:50

… Was not this the first time that our Lord had been actually proclaimed as King since He had come into His public ministry? Was not this the answer …

Two Good Things

Psalm 119:71

… all Your works." My first text, as far as it relates to a preacher, shows how he is taught it in private. "It is good for me that …

Something Worth Seeking

Matthew 6:33

… Many of the Apostles brought to a knowledge of the Truth of God more souls than their Lord did by His personal ministry. He was pleased, after the …

When Should We Pray?

Luke 18:1

… upon Him. "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint" in their ministry for God, in their service on behalf of the souls of their brethren. They …

The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven

Luke 24:36-44

… The preacher went on to describe the way in which the man of God had ascended to Heaven at the moment of death—his spirit fashioning for itself …

The Exceeding Riches of Grace

Ephesians 2:7

… He held it forth that the same results would follow in all ages from the preaching of the same Gospel with the same power from Heaven and, therefore …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… I must confess I did not take this text with the view of preaching from it as it stands, but from a light which breaks out of it …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… sin and, more than that, He counted him worthy— putting him into the ministry—so that this very man could afterwards say, "To me, who am less than …

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… So was it also in Samaria—"When they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… It was memorable discourse indeed, with Jehovah himself for the preacher, and the whole human race and the prince of darkness for the audience. It must be worthy …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… believe that some of you, our Church members, have no care whether our ministry is blessed or not? Am I to believe that you continue members of a …

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… Then the preacher may bid Sinai thunder with all its mighty peals. God Himself may be heard in judgments loud and terrible! But, while the forests bow and …

Why Are We Saved By Faith?

… Why do men attempt to gain salvation by other means? An old preacher says, "A silly servant who is bidden to open a door, sets his shoulder to …

The Sprinkling of the Blood of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:6

… I am well aware that some persons cry out, "The preacher continually talks about blood and, this morning, from the first hymn to the last, he has brought …