Preaching & Ministry

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… the preacher to stone him and put him to death! Now, dear Friends, if you have brought some relative or friend to listen to the minister and the …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… Spurgeon would have thrown many of them, unanswered, into the waste-paper basket ; but his kind heart prompted him ever to minister to the pleasure and profit of …

'Feed My Sheep'

John 21:16

… In this ministry, a humble, godly, ill-educated man with a great, warm, heart will be blessed far more than the large-headed man whose heart is a …

The Feast of the Lord

… We have heard of some in these days who are always preaching a glorified Christ. We wish them such success as their ministry is likely to bring; but …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… When the Church is in this state, her converts are plenteous! Then her teaching and preaching are with power and the Truth of God pushes down its adversaries …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… easy matter to be a minister of the Gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. My Brothers in the ministry, I feel this to be only …

The Power of the Risen Savior

Matthew 28:18-20

… by the foolishness of preaching to accomplish His Divine purposes—not because of the power of preaching, nor the power of the preacher, nor any power in those …

Conversions Desired

Acts 11:21

… Did you ever hear of a minister whose preaching leaned towards Unitarianism but what the congregation, sooner or later, began to diminish? Though many such preachers have been …

Reform

2 Chronicles 31:1

… Praying is the end of preaching. Reformation, conversion, regeneration—these are the ends of the ministry, and a holy life should be the result of your devout worship …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… This should be the position of every minister. We ought to be examples of wrestling prayer. How I wish that you could realize more fully the work allotted …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… If a Church of England minister preaches the Gospel in your neighborhood better than the Baptist minister does, do not go and hear the Baptist! And if you …

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… Though it may be the same preacher and the same preaching of the same doctrines, yet the results are very different—to those who have a part and …

Eyes Opened

2 Kings 6:17

… It is well for a minister, when he is preaching, to sometimes say, "Friends, so much as this I think I do know, but there are some things …

What Meanest Thou, O Sleeper?

Jonah 1:5-6

… If there be an empty place of worship in London, it is generally the preacher’s fault; and, in nine cases out of ten, you will find that …

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

… minister, but (which is most remarkable) the very mistake of forgetfulness of a minister hath been improved by Providence for this end and purpose. Augustine, once preaching to …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… Master Henry Smith—an old preacher at St. Paul's Cross, preaching upon the text—"As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that you …

Soul Saving Our One Business

1 Corinthians 9:22

… First, then, Brothers and Sisters, WHAT WAS PAUL'S GREAT OBJECTIVE IN HIS DAILY LIFE AND MINISTRY? He says it was to save some. There are ministers of …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… I have aimed in my ministry constantly to preach, as far as I can, the whole of the Gospel rather than a fragment of it. Therefore those Brethren …

A Promise for the Blind

Jeremiah 31:8

… keep on preaching, preaching, preaching, or read, read, reading their good-for-nothing manuscripts—and yet there is no increase to their churches! The minister is here in …

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… So in the preaching of the Gospel—if the minister declares the whole Truth of God, certain persons will say, "I cannot receive that"—not because it is …

Grace Preferred to Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:31

… that Milton had been a preacher. I often thought what a grand thing it would have been if Shakespeare had been a minister. With his wonderful versatility of …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… Only give us a minister preaching Christ, and a people who will serve their God, and feel it to be their pleasure to devote themselves and their substance …

Faith's Way of Approach

Romans 10:17

… I need to be saved"—then if the preacher is what he should be, the man or woman cannot go away disappointed! If the minister does not preach …

The Minstrel

2 Kings 3:15

… the preacher who preaches the gospel most simply and most forcibly. Perhaps you say, ‘I have been listening to a very clever minister, a very intellectual minister, and …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… Perhaps you have planned in your mind that God will raise up an extraordinary preacher whose ministry will attract the multitude, and while he is preaching, God the …

The Joy of Harvest

… I heard that a soul had found peace through my youthful ministry. I had been preaching in a village some few Sabbaths with an increasing congregation, but I …

'To You'

Acts 13:26

… Our Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, confined His personal ministry almost entirely within the bounds of Palestine and He bade His disciples begin the preaching of the Gospel at …

The Deceived Heart

Isaiah 44:20

… Are you not, you think, a member of the Church—then why should you be asking yourself any searching questions? When the minister is preaching specially to you …

Sleep Not

1 Thessalonians 5:6

… preacher! Lost, though you sometimes resolve to be saved! We are praying for you daily, but you,—you are asleep! What do you, while we are preaching but …

Secondhand

John 18:34

… Yet the Lord sometimes uses even a preacher who does not, himself, understand the Truth he proclaims. I know a man who went and heard a certain minister …

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… Yet, mark you, the end of their ministry has been answered after all. For what is the end of the gospel ministry? Some will say it is to …

Effects Of Sound Doctrine

Matthew 24:24

… The word, "elect," recurred so frequently in conversation and was so mixed up with all their preaching, with all their assembling together, and with all their Church acts …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… I fear that in the case of a great many, their religion is dependent upon externals in respect of a faithful and earnest ministry. I have noticed, several …

Christ Precious to Believers

1 Peter 2:7

… A Welsh minister who was preaching last Sabbath at the chapel of my dear brother, Jonathan George, was saying, that Christ was the sum and substance of the …

Gospel Missions

Acts 13:49

… the Irish hooted me?” “What!” he says, “is this a preacher?—what a small edition of a minister he must be, to be sure!” “Oh! but they threw …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… The village should! not be unknown to fame, for the records of the Baptist Church prove that Rowland Hill first exercised in Waterbeach his gifts as a minister …

Knowledge Commended

Daniel 11:32

… To what end is the ministry ordained but this—"For the edification of the saints." Are we not called teachers? That preacher who does nothing but excite the …

Difficulty in the Way of Believing

… under a ministry which sets him forth clearly and constantly. Few remain unbelieving under a preacher whose great subject is Christ crucified. Hear no minister of any other …

God's Firebrands

Zechariah 3:2

… Toplady, who was an exceedingly popular, and he certainly was a highly evangelical preacher, and happened to be preaching in the town where the man lived, he said …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… Shirley Hibberd, who very ingeniously made the most of a comparatively small area, so that it formed a still more delightful retreat for the oft-weary preacher and …