Work & Service

Canaan on Earth

Deuteronomy 11:10-12

… work and honesty; they look to the source of that river, and they trace it to a fountain of human erection graced by a statue of labour. Ah …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… Let any sinner here, who can say, "I labour," though he cannot say spiritually labour, come on the bare warrant of the word as he finds it written …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… Personal interest in the church, hospitality, generosity, service, etc. Children aiding holy work. Wife useful, etc. Verse 6. Old age blessed when 1. Life has been spent in …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… But what does hinder them? They only labour for a little season, and then they cease to work and begin to faint. But this church had laboured on …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… While they are sleeping, the Heavenly Father is carrying forward his work for them. Or, while they wake and work, the Lord gives to them, and so he …

Evening, December 2

Ec 1:14

… and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had …

Morning, January 18

Heb 4:9

… his constant cry is, “Help me to serve thee, O my God.” If he be thoroughly active, he will have much labour; not too much for his will …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… For His dear sake, I would that I may yet be able to labour more. Such toils as might be hardly noticed in the camp, for the service …

Morning, October 2

Col 1:5

… Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the worker’s brow, and fatigue …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… I have espoused the service as my life’s labour and delight,—a labour for which all my other work is but a platform,—a delight superior even …

Evening, November 14

Ge 29:26

… My soul, what sayest thou, art thou so vain as to hope to break through the heavenly rule? Dost thou hope for reward without labour, or honour without …

Morning, November 10

De 33:27

… It is also for home that we work and labour . The thought of it gives strength to bear the daily burden, and quickens the fingers to perform the …

Evening, September 20

Ec 11:6

… Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let me no longer withhold my hand from a service which requires abundant labour. Sinners are perishing …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… My service among you is so arduous that I can just keep on, at a medium pace, if I have nothing extra to do ; but any additional labour …

On Conversion as Our Aim

… vary it, and let the unconverted sometimes have the chief labour of your preparation and the best service of the day. Do not close a single sermon without …

Preface

… The making of that catalogue would, of course, be no small labour; but, once accomplished, it might be of service to many, and effect more in the direction …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… Brethren, you and I must, as preachers, be always earnest in reference to our pulpit work. Here we must labour to attain the very highest degree of excellence …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… s work which is only man’s; and then I shall conclude by making an exhortation to all my brethren in the faith of Christ, to labour and …

On the Voice

… muscles can work the whole day if their action is alternated with that of others. Whenever, therefore, we hear a clergyman droning through the church service, and in …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… alike thy truthfulness and thy compassion tell us, that thou wouldst still labour if the work were still undone. Oh! if the last thread had not been woven …

To Workers with Slender Apparatus

… soil; they do not expect a locomotive to work without fuel, or even an ox or an ass to labour without food; let them, therefore, give over expecting …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… Oh, what a labour the atonement was to him! It was a work that all the hands of the universe could not have accomplished; yet he completed it …

Weak Hands and Feeble Knees

Isaiah 35:8

… He is weak in active service, and he becomes weak also in wrestling with his God. Hands and knees are the exhibitors of inward power. Now, there are …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… weariness of the flesh; but ours is more than mental work—it is heart work, the labour of our inmost soul. How often, on Lord’s-day evenings …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… the truly pastoral and important work of seeing candidates and enquirers at the T^ibernacle ; and in no part of his service was Mr. Spurgeon more happy and …

The Well-Beloved's Vineyard

… What a fruitful hill we are living in as regards labour for Christ! Each one of us may find work for the Master; there are capital opportunities around …

The Story of God’s Mighty Acts

Psalm 44:1

… SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. “We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days …

A Typical Week’s Work

… first work, every Monday, was the revision of the Lord's-day morning's sermon. This was always a labour of love, yet it was a labour ; and …

Question 49: Which is the fourth commandment?

… Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… is something to cheer the printers, and all of us who labour in that good work. A country friend wrote to me, this week, " Brother Spurgeon, keep your …

Morning, May 28

Ro 8:30

… Wait awhile, and that weary head shall wear the crown of glory, and that hand of labour shall grasp the palm-branch of victory. Lament not thy troubles …

Morning, January 12

1Co 3:23

… Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and …

Evening, May 4

1Pe 1:23

… Just as some judicious tutor of princes might labour to beget and foster in them a kingly spirit and dignified behaviour, finding arguments in their position and descent …

Morning, August 21

Pr 11:25

… Our strength for labour is hidden even from ourselves, until we venture forth to fight the Lord’s battles, or to climb the mountains of difficulty. We do …

Evening, September 17

De 1:38

… Gabriel would not have been half so well fitted for the work as Moses. A brother’s sympathy is more precious than an angel’s embassy. The angel …

Morning, March 5

1Th 5:6

… his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep. Labour to impress thyself with a deep sense of the value of the place to …

Evening, June 27

1Co 7:20

… Turn to the Bible, and you will find the most menial forms of labour connected either with most daring deeds of faith, or with persons whose lives have …

Morning, July 7

1Th 5:25

… Brethren, our work is solemnly momentous, involving weal or woe to thousands; we treat with souls for God on eternal business, and our word is either a savour …

Morning, June 17

Ps 12:1

… Workers in heavenly labour may thus obtain grace in time of need. Seeking sinners, in doubts and alarms , may offer up the same weighty supplication; in fact, in …

Evening, January 2

Is 41:1

… Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the hidden treasures …