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To Souls In Agony
Psalm 116:3
… He would have looked to his minister, but he knows that if he did, he would be disappointed. He finds emptiness written upon every creature so far as …
SERMON • SERMON 2079Man Unknown To Man
Proverbs 14:10
… I once knew a minister who had never suffered pain or illness in his life. I was unwell in his house and he most kindly tried to sympathize …
SERMON • SERMON 415The Fullness Of Christ—Received!
John 1:16
… He said in his heart, "Alas! I cannot go with you, for I am no preacher and I have done nothing for my Master." His heart was ready …
SERMON • SERMON 2998The Rule of Christ
2 Samuel 23:4
… Very often, a cloud of words is only like a cloud of dust and explanations of faith often minister confusion rather than edification. There is Jesus Christ—will …
SERMON • SERMON 1422The Chief Physician and the Centurion's Servant
Matthew 8:7
… Why should he trouble the Master to leave the crowd and to cease preaching, to come and attend to his servant? He is grieved to think that he …
SERMON • SERMON 508Comfort To Seekers From What The Lord Has Not Said
Isaiah 45:19
… Oh, may God give us His Holy Spirit, that while I am preaching, comfort may be given to many troubled hearts. I. First, then, BY THE NEGATIVE. It …
COMMENTARYPsalm 137
Psalm 137
Psalm 137 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher Other Works This plaintive ode is one of the most charming compositions in the whole …
SERMON • SERMON 2039Crossing the Jordan
Joshua 1:10
… Some of God's very poor and tried people are occasionally so full of faith and courage that they try to cheer up their minister. The children instruct …
SERMON • SERMON 412God'S First Words To The First Sinner
Genesis 3:9
… I tempered the winds for you; I clothed the trees with fruit for your nourishment; I made all things minister to your happiness. Where are you? I asked …
SERMON • SERMON 2030Moses—His Faith and Decision
Hebrews 11:24-26
… There is the pleasure of anticipation, there is the pleasure of enjoying it and there is the pleasure of thinking it over afterwards." "Yes," said her minister, "I …
SERMON • SERMON 32The Necessity of Increased Faith
Luke 17:5
… They did not say to themselves, “I will increase my faith,” they did not cry to the minister, “Preach a comforting sermon, and increase my faith,” they did …
SERMON • SERMON 2859The Lions' Den
Daniel 6:20
… He is prime minister of the greatest monarch of the age, yet he abhors the idolatry of the heathen and maintains his allegiance to him who rules in …
SERMON • SERMON 2363Comfort and Constancy
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… We might be jaded if God did not minister Divine consolation to us while we served Him. Moreover, I am sure that we would never do the work …
CATECHISMQuestion 72: How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
Ps 19:7; 1Th 1:6; Ro 1:16
… How is the Word made effectual to salvation? A The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting …
SERMON • SERMON 1201Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther
Esther 9:1
… Haman was prime minister of the far-extending empire of Persia, the favorite of a despotic monarch who was pliant to his will. Mordecai, a Jew in the …
SERMON • SERMON 2860Owl or Eagle?
Psalm 102:6
… No hand can heal a broken heart save the Divine hand that made it The minister's words cannot heal your wounds. The Holy Spirit alone can pour …
SERMON • SERMON 552Do You Know Him?
Philippians 3:10
… The next morning you are attended by servants who guard you from evil and minister to your good. Day after day, week after week, your wants are supplied …
SERMON • SERMON 3228'Oh, How He Loves!'
John 11:36
… is regarded by many with supreme contempt! Not long ago a professedly Christian minister said that he did not care a penny about baptism! If he belongs to …
SERMON • SERMON 1249Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family
Ephesians 3:15
… Take a steady look into the invisible, and the text, I think, sets before us something to gaze upon which may minister comfort to us. The saints in …
SERMON • SERMON 2322When Can We Find Comforters?
Nahum 3:7
… IT is the business of the Prophet of God and of the minister of Christ to seek comfort for those who are in distress. "Comfort you, comfort you …
SERMON • SERMON 2968'His Great Love'
Ephesians 2:4
… Do not some of you remember that loving Sunday school teacher and the earnestness with which she pleaded with you? And that godly minister and how he seemed …
SERMON • SERMON 538Caleb—The Man For The Times
Numbers 14:24
… You have got a minister down there but he wants to do a little more good than you like him to do. Now mind what you think. Stand …
SERMON • SERMON 1248The Choice Of A Leader
Luke 6:39
… Some take a guide because, as I have said before, he is appointed by authority—he happens to be the parson of the parish, or the family minister …
COMMENTARYPsalm 65
Psalm 65
Psalm 65 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher TITLE. This title is very similar to many we have before studied. To the Chief …
SERMON • SERMON 476Citizenship In Heaven
Philippians 3:20
… A certain minister collecting for a Chapel, called upon a rich merchant, who generously gave him fifty pounds. As the good man was going out with sparkling eye …
SERMON • SERMON 2320The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity
Romans 1:7
… It is a happy thing when a minister feels that he has nothing to do with anything else but the Gospel—that commands all his thoughts, all his …
SERMON • SERMON 1179Forty Years
Deuteronomy 2:7
… upon the creature, nor practices policy to win his way. "Ah," said a minister to me, "if I were to preach in your bold style I should lose …
SERMON • SERMON 2857God's Goodness Leading to Repentance
Romans 2:4
… Young Man, what say you to hauling down the black flag and running up the blood-red Cross tonight? You may yet be a minister of Christ—perhaps …
SERMON • SERMON 1992Song for the Free—Hope for the Bound
Psalm 107:14-16
… The minister wants me to go down and do it." I answered, "Yes. By all means go! If you can sing the Hallelujah Chorus, alone, don't throw …
SERMON • SERMON 491Our Stronghold
Proverbs 18:10
… to be trimmed, one foolish woman said, "Ah, you see, according to the minister's own confession, these Christians are as bad as the rest of us, they …
SERMON • SERMON 2272Longing To Find God
Job 23:3
… If you will only hear a faithful Gospel minister attentively, it will not be long before you find God. If you go to hear a man merely because …
SERMON • SERMON 2771Peter's Fall and Restoration
Luke 22:61
… I am sure that if Peter had been the minister of a neighboring Baptist Church and had died, and I had been asked to write his biography, I …
SERMON • SERMON 2946A Procession of Cross-bearers
Mark 10:21
… but whoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whoever of you will be the chief, shall be servant of all. For even the Son …
SERMON • SERMON 920Backsliding Healed
Hosea 14:4
… Note well that the Lord does not say in the text, "My Word shall heal their backsliding," or, "I will send My minister to heal their backsliding." He …
SERMON • SERMON 3190Christ in Gethsemane
Mark 14:32
… We afterwards discovered that he was a brother minister whom we were glad to invite to join our little company. If you want to be alone, you can …
SERMON • SERMON 2640Comforted and Comforting
2 Corinthians 1:3
… Hence, the minister of Christ, if he is to be of much use in God's service, must have great trouble. "Prayer, meditation, and affliction," says Melanchthon, "are …
SERMON • SERMON 1032The Two Yokes
Jeremiah 28:13
… Service and sovereignty blend here, as when Joseph became Prime Minister of Pharaoh he was lord over all the land of Egypt. To serve God in very truth …
SERMON • SERMON 590The Backslider'S Way Hedged Up
Hosea 2:5-7
… If one minister reels from the pinnacle of honor and is dashed upon the rocks beneath, so may another. I want to make a personal application of this …
SERMON • SERMON 2562Cries From the Cross
Psalm 22:1
… you—one who loves you even as you love yourself! I, as His minister, say to you, in God's name and in Christ's place, "Be you …
SERMON • SERMON 1379The Magnanimity of God
Job 36:5
… Yet another replies, "I can understand God's saving a man who afterwards becomes an eminent minister or a gifted missionary. But if He were to save me …