Preaching & Ministry

Life In Earnest

2 Chronicles 31:21

… Where is the preacher whom God blesses to the conversion of hundreds in a year? Is he a sleepy, prosaic soul? Does he confine himself within narrow limits …

Am I Clear Of His Blood?

Genesis 4:10

… If I must perish, let me suffer any way but as a minister who has desecrated the pulpit by a slumbering style of ministry, by a want of …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… minister. "She bestowed much labor on us," says the Apostle, or, "on me"—she was one of those useful women who took personal care of the preacher because …

Apostolic Exhortation

Acts 3:19

… To the Christian minister it should never be difficult to speak of Christ; and in whatever position he may be placed, he should never have to ask himself …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… Your ministry may be in the Sunday school, or in street preaching, or visiting the sick, but all true ministry must have rain about it as well as …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… I thank them, but I also envy them ; and would gladly pay a king's ransom, if I had it, for the privilege of preaching this Sabbath. My …

Humility

Acts 20:19

… The Apostle had them all, or rather they were blended together in a sweet mixture in his daily preaching and conversation. I hope this morning to give you …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… the minister very low. The brother most relied upon becomes a traitor. Judas lifts up his heel against the man who trusted him, and the preacher’s heart …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… in measure, injure the preacher. Let your Grace decline and your prayerfulness be restrained and the pastor must feel the loss and his ministry will bear melancholy evidence …

A Silly Dove

Hosea 7:11

… In their prayers you find some sort of comfort and in the ministry of the Word you take delight. You fly like a cloud and like doves to …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… At one time we were told that power lay in an educated ministry. People said, "We must have a minister who knows Greek and Latin! You cannot save …

The Parable of the Ark

Genesis 7:15

… He who would be a successful minister must open his mouth in parables. He who would win the hearts of the multitude must closely imitate his Master and …

The Spiritual Resurrection

John 11:43

… I remember, some time ago, hearing a preacher assert that, though the Scriptures said that men were dead, it meant a metaphorical death—that they were not really …

A Summary of Experience and a Body of Divinity

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

… that ministry far more than any adversaries can do. ‘There!’ says the world, when it detects a false professor, ‘this is what comes of such preaching.’ They judge …

Lame Sheep

Hebrews 12:13

… Those that sit under such a ministry need not wonder how it is that they do not grow in Grace! Yes, and how much ministry there is that …

The Power of Christ's Presence

John 21:7

… I do not think that we can always account for the great success of one preacher and the non-success of another by anything that we can see …

A Gospel Worth Dying For

Acts 20:24

… preaching that I can understand Paul saying, "Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which …

A Voice With Four Messages

1 Kings 19:11-13

… power—and we have hoped by preaching thus—to see our congregations converted. Now, if we have been long in the ministry, and if the Lord has given …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… Gospel preacher, and then what will you do? Still worse may it be with you! The Lord may let you continue under the ministry, and the ministry may …

The Necessity of Regeneration

John 3:7

… It does not much matter whether you remember what I say or what any other preacher says, for we may err, but our text does not err, it …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… be the rule in one's ministry, there would be grave cause to suspect that God was not working within the minister—certainly not in the sense of …

Covenant Blessings

Psalm 111:5

… never feed under a ministry unless he hears the doctrines of Grace and listens to the things of the Kingdom of God. "Our minister preached a fine metaphysical …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… the man who has been preaching for me will be blessed by God to some who have never been converted under my ministry. Sometimes, when I have longed …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… These folks insinuate that the preaching of the practical precepts of the Gospel is in conflict with the Grace of God and is little better than preaching up …

Before Sermon, At Sermon and After Sermon

James 1:21

… So, my Brothers, let us so use the holy ordinance of preaching that we may extract the largest possible amount of gold from the ore. Let us so …

A Double Silver Wedding

… Spurgeon's pastoral silver wedding, — the commemoration of the completion of the twenty-fifth year of his ministry in London. It was felt, by many of his friends …

Cumbered With Much Serving

Luke 10:40

… THE preacher will have one hearer tonight to whom his text will be amazingly applicable—himself! Here we have meeting after meeting and engagement after engagement. We are …

The Only Door

John 10:9

… It is always sweet preaching for me when I feel that I come forth in the name of my Master—when I do not come to tell you …

The Baptist's Message

John 1:29

… It is grand preaching when the preacher can see Christ coming, when he can behold the Throne of Judgment set and can gaze upon the King in His …

Divine Sovereignty

Matthew 20:15

… Behold how God displays his Sovereignty in this fact, that out of the same congregation, those who hear the same minister, and listen to the same truth, the …

The Lord with Two or Three

Matthew 18:20

… You do not meet, tonight, to listen to a certain preacher, but because through that preacher you have been helped to get nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ …

Guile Forsaken When Guilt Is Forgiven

Psalm 32:2

… say? "The preacher was so very harsh. I could not hear a man like that. I want more love." Of course they cannot abide a ministry which reveals …

Prospect—"He Will Keep"

John 17:11

… No ministry of itself can turn a heart of stone into flesh. "You must be born from above." Though the Son of God, Himself, is the Preacher, yet …

The Carpenter's Son and His Relations

Matthew 13:55

… For instance, in listening to a certain preacher, they make up their mind that he cannot say anything that can be beneficial to them—and then they wonder …

The Sinner's Only Alternative

2 Kings 7:4

… going from one place to another to listen to this preacher or that—as though the preaching of the Gospel was only intended to amuse you. How often …

Untitled Sermon

Acts 9:32-35

… I MAY not hope that I shall see you all again, and so, as I have the opportunity of only preaching one sermon to you, I must make …

Rejecters Of The Gospel Admonished

Isaiah 28:12

… which to rend the preacher." Have you not heard folks say in these days concerning a true Gospel preacher that he is always preaching about Sovereign Grace or …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… Men do receive mental impressions under the preaching of the Word; they often get so uneasy that they cannot shake off their thoughts; but alas! their goodness is …

God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

… That is to say, we are to preach as if Christ were preaching. Oh, what a model for the minister! "We pray you in Christ's stead!" I …

Public Meeting Of The Various Denominations

… Why, the ministry of Jonathan Edwards burst upon the people as alarming as the trumpet of doom, terrible as the kindling of the last fires, while the preaching …