Preaching & Ministry

The Betrayal

Luke 22:47

… Judas was a preacher; nay, he was a foremost preacher, “he obtained part of this ministry,” said the Apostle Peter. He was not simply one of the seventy …

The Saint and the Spirit

John 14:17

… minister in the Lord's House as the sent servants of the Master of the household. Then, in Jesus Christ's three and a half years of ministry …

Satan Departing, Angels Ministering

Luke 4:13

… come to minister to Him? Did He go home and stay there and begin to sing of His delightful experiences? No, we find Him preaching directly afterwards, full …

The Blind Man'S Earnest Cries

Mark 10:47

… The preacher is responsible for the faithfulness of his preaching, but hearers also are responsible for the earnestness of their hearing! May God grant that your responsibility may …

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… When I was preaching in Wales this week, I could not but observe the power which attended the ministry, when there was a living congregation and an earnest …

God's Gentle Power

1 Kings 19:11-13

… You are to call into the Christian ministry a brother that shall do greater than you have, you shall light as greater candle shall your own. Oh! what …

Spiritual Gleaning

… get back again to the despised minister and pick up what his field will yield you. That is a sorry ministry which yields nothing. Go and glean where …

Who Should Be Baptized?

Acts 8:37

… IT is not my practice to preach what people commonly call "baptizing sermons." It is very seldom that I even mention the subject of Baptism in my preaching …

An Encouraging Lesson From Paul's Conversion

Acts 9:13-16

… God has been pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. This is the era of instrumentality— Christ bids His disciples go into all the …

A Fatal Deficiency

Romans 8:9

… The preacher has prayed that he may be helped to discourse upon the text. Let each hearer pray that what shall be rightly said may also rightly affect …

An Exciting Enquiry

Matthew 21:10

… the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of Him. I am sure no minister will ever repent of …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… another preacher with heavier tidings is sent to summon them to judgment! The damned in Hell who heard the Gospel—oh, say not that the minister's toil …

Joy in Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… 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 …

A Revival Sermon

Amos 9:13

… If it were not for this doctrine, I wonder where the ministry would be. Old Adam is too strong for young Melancthon. The power of our preaching is …

A Witness and a Partaker

1 Peter 5:1

… If the atoning sufferings of Christ are left out of a ministry, that ministry is worthless. "The blood is the life thereof," is as true about sermons as …

Christ and His Co-workers

Mark 16:20

… do not come in that way, but God works with the minister while he is preaching. If he does not take his sermon and read it, he is …

Christ's Love for His Vineyard

Solomon 8:12

… I would not dare to be a minister and you would not dare to be church officers unless we felt that it was before Him. In your different …

Without Christ—Nothing

John 15:5

… And what comes of it where it is held up to the people? Why, by-and-by there are not enough people to support the ministry! Empty benches …

Enquirers and Converts

… We cannot play at preaching ; we preach for eternity. We cannot feel satisfied merely to deliver sermons to senseless throngs, or to the most attentive crowds. Whatever smiles …

Concern For Other Men's Souls

Romans 9:1-5

… that he who was so ardent a persecutor should become so fervent a preacher! His conversion is one of the proofs of the Divinity of Christianity. The study …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… days of John Newton, an earnest preacher, a famous evangelist, not to add a sweet poet. Almost a model for the ministry was John Newton, but once a …

Compassion For The Multitude

Matthew 14:17

… There are some congregations to whom it would be far better if they had no preacher at all—for, having a minister who is not ordained of God …

Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service

Mark 15:21

… You live in a village where there is no Gospel preaching—preach, yourself! You are in a backwoods town where the preaching is very far from being such …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… He could give them a very accurate account of the time when the rain would descend and yet they were not converted by his preaching, neither did they …

A Prayer for the Church Militant

Psalm 28:9

… Talking this day with a Brother in the ministry—one who has been many years a preacher—he was telling me that he had been to the British …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… If the true minister is kept and made to hold fast his integrity, there should be constant gratitude to God on his behalf. If the minister is kept …

The Student's Prayer

Psalm 119:27

… You must know the doctrinal and the practical—and you must know the experimental—he is no preacher of any value who cannot tell the way of God …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… about preaching and, as He preached, He was training others to also preach—"the twelve were with Him." I think that whenever there is a successful ministry, there …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… ministry to astonish people but to impress their hearts, changed His subject, and charged with tremendous vigor upon their consciences. For if men will only give the minister …

Work For Jesus

Matthew 21:28

… Do not go and play the preacher! Do not go and play at exhorting people at the corners of streets, or even play at giving away tracts. "My …

The Hexapla Of Mystery

1 Timothy 3:16

… One of the visitors to this place lately said, "I am willing to be a Believer if the preacher can persuade me." Very likely, but no preacher can …

Our Lord's Preaching

Isaiah 61:1

… was with a special view to His preaching. Such honor does the Lord of Heaven and Earth put upon the ministry of the Word that, as one of …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… When the minister preaches with power and the hearer's heart is touched, the devil says, "Wait for a more convenient season." Thus the arch enemy pours his …

Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation

Romans 3:25

… The preacher, standing here as he does today before this immense assembly, knows that without God's looking upon the ministry, it will be vain and void. How …

Election-its Defenses and Evidences

1 Thessalonians 1:4-6

… The power that is in the Gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher, otherwise men would be the converters of souls. Nor does it lie …

Harvest Joy

Isaiah 9:3

… where the preacher could preach upon anything except the Gospel of Christ? Where you might hear about anything except the precious blood of Christ? The minister would be …

The True Position Of Assurance

Ephesians 1:13

… The great end, it seems to me, of the preaching of the Gospel is just this—the preacher should always be aiming so to preach it that he …

Wanted, A Guest Chamber!

Mark 14:14

… I have heard thoughtless or critical talkers say, "If God works out His purposes, then there is no need for preaching or any other means." Ah, simpleton that …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… voice of God.” Whether it is by his own agency, or a minister’s preaching, the Word, which is quick and powerful, cuts to the sinner’s heart …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… Do not, I beseech you, play with it, or trifle with it, for whoever the preacher may be, however humble the instrumentality, if it is instrumentality that is …