Revival

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… so, what shall we do?" The Lord used that plural pronoun to the awakening of the preacher who had not been converted though he thought he had been …

The Dream of Pilate's Wife

Matthew 27:19

… Never give them up, never despair of awakening them. If my ministry, your ministry and the ministry of the blessed Book should all seem to be nothing, God …

Our Urgent Need of the Holy Spirit

Romans 15:13

… if we are to be the means in the hand of God of awakening dead souls. II. Next, it is one of the peculiar offices of the Holy …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… Do you remember the days of your first awakening, when you had only sufficient life to mourn and lament that you had so little? The first sense of …

Heart Disease Curable

Isaiah 61:1

… Try strong exercise." This is all very well, for the body may need strengthening or purifying or awakening or resting, but if the secret of the disease is …

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… They must have a revival meeting once a week at least! If they do not get a grand display quite so often, they begin to fall dreadfully back …

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… The Spirit has refined you, in a measure, by what you have suffered, by awakening and convincing you; but the true refining shall come to you in another …

The First Resurrection

Revelation 20:4

… But I have chosen this topic because I believe it has practical bearings, and may be made useful, instructive, and awakening to us all. I find that the …

"Am I A Sea, Or A Whale?"

Job 7:12

… I awoke in the morning and my first act for many a day was to read a chapter of the Bible, or a page of some awakening book …

Sentence Of Death, The Death Of Self-trust

2 Corinthians 1:9

… a God's acre, a sleeping place where myriads lie waiting for the awakening trumpet! We, too, may expect to sleep with them and, therefore, we must not …

The Candle

Matthew 5:15

… their wretched condition of lukewarmness! I hope you will be the means of awakening them and bringing them nearer to Christ. How often a place which appears undesirable …

Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God

Psalm 65:11

… Certainly there are many among you between whom and myself there might pass a telegraphic glance awakening glad memories. You have brought to me one after another souls …

"Christ First, Me Last—Nothing Between But Love"

Galatians 2:20

… text explained, as to feel its gracious influence moving over your spirit and awakening in your heart happy memories of gratitude for blessings received. I. Our first division …

Divine and Human Ordination

… I detest the dogma of apostolic succession, and dislike the revival of the doctrine by delegating power from minister to minister. “(2.) I believe in the glorious principle …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… May God bless this solemn warning to your soul's awakening! There is a bright side to this great Truth of the Divine nearness. If God is not …

Everyday Religion

Galatians 2:20

… was "despised and rejected of men." Your faith ought to help you by awakening your gratitude for deliverance from a far worse drudgery. You did for Satan things …

God's Fire and Hammer

Jeremiah 23:29

… It has also the effect of paining and awakening. You put your finger in the fire and you will know that it burns! You lay your hand upon …

God of the Hills and God of the Valleys

1 Kings 20:28

… I feel a dreadful indifference stealing over my spirit—where shall I find awakening and enlivening?" I answer, you will find help to overcome your sin just where …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… And however much you may be at ease, there shall come a rough awakening to your slumbers and the shrill sound of the archangel's trumpet shall be …

Hearing With Heed

Mark 4:24

… going to use the text in another sense, namely, as a word of awakening to you who are hearers. I do not think that I need to say …

The Widow of Sarepta

1 Kings 17:8

… are directed by Grace, though they are nothing more than moralizing, restraining, or awakening operations. When I came to preach, this morning, I did not know who may …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… That kind of worshipping which lies in the subduing of the will, the awakening of the affections, the bestirring of the whole mind and heart and the presentation …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… spirit, have already been awakened—let them take heed of trifling with their awakening! After that earnest sermon, or after reading that stirring book, you began to pray …

None But Jesus

John 3:18

… me.” But he says, “Lord, I am a sinner, save me.” Not his awakening, but his sinnership is the method and plan upon which he dares to come …

Refuges of Lies and What Will Become of Them

Isaiah 28:17

… OVER against amazing mercy, the Holy Spirit sets awakening judgment. The acceptable year of the Lord is also the day of vengeance of our God and the sentence …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… And now we are prepared to take the further step, raised by THE FIFTH QUESTION, namely, that an awakening should be the result. "If a trumpet is blown …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… not enough to take away the loved one, without at the same instant awakening the affections which were so rudely to be shocked? Isaac was very rightly beloved …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… No great and lasting revival of religion can be granted us till the professed lovers of Jesus prove their affection by coming out from an ungodly world, being …

Stewards

… To raise a revival by suppressing truth, is dealing deceitfully; it is a pious fraud, and our Lord wants no profit which might be supposed to come by …

On the Choice of a Text

… on the new text that came to me, and the other traced his awakening to the latter part, which was occasioned by the sudden darkness. Thus, you see …

On the Voice

… Indeed, the very exceptional use of the phrase ‘an awakening discourse,’ even by those most familiar with such matters, conveys the implication that the great majority of pulpit …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… On one of his visits, after the great revival, when preaching in Exeter Hall, from Amos ix. 13, — " Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman …

The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements*

… I add, that the most remarkable times of the revival of religion, in this part of the United Kingdom, immediately succeeded times of the greatest apostasy, when ‘truth …

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound? Does any one object that music is very useful for awakening …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… threw her on her side, tumbling and crashing everything that was moveable, and awakening the passengers to a consciousness that they were in imminent peril. Everyone on board …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… I had a glorious revival on Saturday and Sunday. When I can do anything, I am not quite so dead. Oh, what a horrid state! It seems as …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… For myself, I will rejoice; the devil is roused, the Church is awakening, and I am now counted worthy to suffer for Christ’s sake… Good ballast, father …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… We beseech all Christian people, who long for a revival in the midst of our churches, to pray for this young man, whom we do earnestly hope the …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… It would not be amiss if there could be a revival of holy talk in the churchyard and the meeting-yard. I like to see the big yew …

The Sin of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:19

… Unbelief makes you sit here in times of revival and of the outpouring of God’s grace, unmoved, uncalled, unsaved. But, sirs, the worst fulfillment of this doom …