Preaching & Ministry

God's Heart the Source of All Blessing

2 Samuel 7:21

… was constrained, at last, to utter this verdict, "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity." And He had to go back to His God, and find …

How Hearts Are Softened

Zechariah 12:10

… Prayer without desire; praise without emotion; preaching without earnestness—what are all these? Like the marble images of life, they are cold and dead! Insensibility is a deadly …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… afraid, "Lord, I thank You that I am not as other men." The preacher himself, though he might preach humility to you, sometimes gets to comparing himself with …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… They were the words, also, of a preacher, one who could say, "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation...I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation …

On Humbling Ourselves before God

1 Peter 5:6

… I am afraid that from the preacher down to the most obscure member, we may, everyone of us, listen with awe to the injunction, "humble yourselves under the …

Life Proved by Love

1 John 3:14

… I have often told the story of Rowland Hill and the good Scotchman who sat for some time looking at the preacher's face and at the strange …

One More Cast of the Great Net

Joel 2:32

… I hand out the Bread of Heaven and you do not expect poetry from a bakery! When the Apostle Peter was preaching what I may call the inauguration …

The Withered Hand

Matthew 12:10

… man was there! And tonight, dear Friends, it matters very little to the preacher or to the congregation that you are here, if you are some person of …

The Glories of Forgiving Grace

Ephesians 1:7

… Beloved Friends, no one can say that we have before us a theme which is unpractical, speculative and fanciful! No one will be able to charge the preacher …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… child of God? What a narrow way it is! You thought, when the preacher discoursed the other day about Free Grace and dying love, what a glorious highway …

The Underlying Gospel for the Dying Year

Romans 5:6

… We were told to believe in Christ—the preacher might as well have commanded the dead to rise out of their graves! Christ was set before us in …

What is the Verdict?

1 John 3:21

… When you preach, you are preaching that which your soul believes. If I spoke to you, today, about things which I was not quite sure of, it would …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… Study your Bible more! Listen to plain preaching of the Gospel. Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching—where Christ is everything and the …

The Hunger-Bite

Job 18:12

… for all the rest without this is but outward and carnal—and can minister no good to your spirit. May your strength be starved if you are resting …

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

1 John 3:8

… If this distinction is to be thought of in preaching and in public prayer, it should be especially considered in our personal religion. We ought to know whose …

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… The preaching of morality helps but little. Men have been preached at with morality till they have become drunkards and swearers. Vice laughs at the preaching of morality …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… Are not many hungering after novelties, longing for things original and startling, thirsting after the spiritual dram-drinking of sensational preaching, dissatisfied with Christ Crucified, though He is …

The Value and Rank of the Believer

Isaiah 43:4

… Men are never saved by scolding and an angry preacher is not likely to bring many to a loving Savior. We must love sinners so much that they …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… Do not let the preacher mince matters with me. Deliver him from sewing pillows under my armholes and lulling me to sleep. Lord, I would be faithfully dealt …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… said, ‘He stinketh.’ They began to say all manner of evil against the preacher; but the more I stank in their nostrils the better I liked it, for …

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… Do not follow a Church—do not follow any great preacher—pin yourself to no man's sleeve. To the Law and to the Testimony, if men speak …

The Holy Spirit in the Covenant

Ezekiel 36:27

… heart has been shaken by disgrace, shame and contempt, for many a brother minister, of whom I thought better things, has reviled me—and many a Christian has …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… But when God sends His Grace from Heaven, you may know it by this sign—soaks into your soul! Oh, how much of my preaching there is, and …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

Psalm 17 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher TITLE and SUBJECT. A prayer of David. David would not have been a man after …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… Non-success often ties the preacher up so that he can scarcely speak. "You, O Son of Man, behold they shall put bands upon you and shall bind …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… People exclaim against the preacher if he speaks plainly about the vices of the times. "Really, it is shocking," says one, "I do not like to hear such …

The Way

John 14:6

… The way in which I shall make the Clapham Road my way after I have done preaching is by getting into it. And the way in which Christ …

Prayer 2 — Thanks Be Unto God

… O God, our God, let not the teaching of the Sunday school, the preaching of the evangelists, the personal visitations of individual minds, let not any of these …

Election and Holiness

Deuteronomy 10:14-16

… The whole tendency of his Word, the whole tendency of the preaching of the gospel. is to persuade you to turn from sin unto righteousness, from your wicked …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

Psalm 88 Exposition Explanatory Notes and Quaint Sayings Hints to the Village Preacher TITLE. A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah. This sad complaint reads very …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… Seldom he sat down on earth; he said, “I must be about my Father’s business.” Journey after journey, labour after labour, preaching after preaching, followed each other …

Jesus, The Stumbling Stone Of Unbelievers

1 Peter 2:7

… Were not the Jews the chosen people of God? Was not Israel set apart by the Most High? Jesus comes preaching the Gospel to every creature. He sends …

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… Do not let us trace any blessing to ourselves, or to our fellow men, for though the minister of God may be as a conduit to bring us …

Law and Grace

Romans 5:20

… In vain the minister cries, “Repent,” Our hard heart will not melt; in vain he exhorts us to believe; that faith of which he speaks seems to be …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… How often a minister has brought sinners to Christ and fed the flock in his early days! But when the old man grows feeble, they want to get …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… meet in glory to part no more! Till then, I am,— “Your earnest minister, “C. H. Spurgeon.” A little while before the Pastor left home for his holiday …

Love

1 John 4:19

… DURING the last two Sabbath days I have been preaching the gospel to the unconverted. I have earnestly exhorted the very chief of sinners to look to Jesus …

My Comfort In Affliction

Psalm 119:50

… Though experience is a legitimate source of comfort, yet when the sky is dark and lowering, experience is apt to minister fresh distress! If we were to go …

At School

Psalm 143:10

… Search the Scriptures! Many Christians believe what their minister preaches because he preaches it. Do not believe a word of what I preach unless you can find it …

The Death of Christ

Isaiah 53:10

… I may be called Antinomian or Calvinist for preaching a limited atonement; but I had rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom …