Work & Service

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… Like those earnest Methodist miners, we have one life of usefulness, of service, of affliction, of temptation; one life in which to glorify God on earth in blessing …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… If God makes men strong to labor so that their labor is their delight and the service of God is a very recreation to them, it ought to …

The Minstrelsy of Hope

Psalm 67:6

… They were stout-hearted and strong, and willing enough for labor, and well they needed all their strength and more. One stalwart laborer was named Industry—consecrated work …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… His Father’s service is his element. He is never happy when he is out of it. He casts his whole being, his whole spirit, into the work …

'Stewards'

1 Corinthians 4:1

… earnest in the service of the Lord Jesus and that our people may also be alive! A minister must give himself wholly to his work. I have read …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… You bid me do what is far beyond my power." Then they bid him work, crying, "You must press forward, be in earnest, agonizing, labor!" "But," says he …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… Master's service, but never weary of it—springing to the collar when the load was far too heavy for your single strength. Ready to labor, or ready …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… I have a good sphere of labor here, but I want to do more, if possible. There is a great field, and the laborers must work with all …

Attention!

Matthew 17:5

… We do not labor "to comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths." God speaks to dull ears. Though His accents are far more sweet than …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… For that let us pray; let us continually labor for it, and seek it of God. 3. One more work of the Spirit, which will especially manifest his …

Our Sympathizing High Priest

Hebrews 5:7-10

… The Lord sets us a service proportioned to our strength, but what a service was exacted of the Son of God! Ours is a lightened burden, but the …

Resurrection for the Just and the Unjust

Acts 24:15

… be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." It might …

Christ's Motive and Ours

2 Corinthians 8:9

… My sermon from these two texts will be on the motive which inspired Christ's redeeming work and the motive which should inspire our service for Him. He …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… his service and there would be nothing on the table for the wife and children. It is God that gives us our bread, however hard we work in …

Regeneration and the Holy Spirit

… they labor in vain that build it. It is certain that no man who believes in Jesus will ever find that the Holy Spirit refuses to work in …

The Three Hours' Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… He raises His triumphant shout and, "It is finished" kindles, like a torch, the lamp of day once more, and earth is glad, for salvation's work is …

The People's Christ

Psalm 89:19

… They have no idea of what it is to labor for their daily food. They have a very faint conception of what a rise in the price of …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… it is easy work to tell a man the truth, but if he will not be convinced your labor is lost. We pity the poor blind, we cannot …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… perhaps if he had a higher genius he might disdain the work, and so the Ragged School would be without its excellent teacher. There are little spheres, and …

Meeting Of The Neighboring Churches

… As they surveyed that splendid structure—the largest sanctuary which had ever been reared by such churches as theirs to the service and Glory of God—they were …

The Suffering Christ Satisfied

Isaiah 53:11

… he does not have the result, the full result of his labor, above all such labor—labor even unto death? If a man does not achieve by his …

God's Glory and His Goodness

Exodus 33:18-23

… I suppose of many here present it is true that when called by the Master to great labor or deep affliction, you have been conscious of the same …

A Timely Expostulation

Luke 24:5

… You will endure the labor, but not receive the reward. You will suffer the burning of the fire, but not be enlivened by its cheerful warmth. "Why seek …

Paul's Persuasion

Romans 8:38

… For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… It is a stupendous work—a work to which only the Deity is equal! God alone creates or re-creates the soul of man! You look in vain …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… to me." True, but God is not unfaithful to forget your work of faith and labor of love. "Ah, Sir, but I am dreadfully poor." Yet you have …

The Prodigal's Return

Luke 15:20

… He has almost effected it; but he never had such an Herculean labor to attempt before; for now some temptation comes upon him so strongly that it is …

Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine

Ephesians 5:18

… Dear Brothers and Sisters, whether you are preachers, or teachers, or parents, or persons engaged in the service of God in your ordinary labor—if you want strength …

Facing the Wind

2 Thessalonians 3:13

… You perceive the Apostle had been speaking of some who would not work—"working not at all," he says, and he commands them that they should labor and …

The Only Atoning Priest

Hebrews 10:11-14

… even as Christ set apart himself, dedicated to God's service, and separated from sinners. As the work which began at regeneration is continued and carried on in …

Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target

Psalm 130:7

… I labor to believe that I am forgiven. I desire to be saved. I want to know that I am saved." This is looking for the fruit, when …

God, the Husband of His People

Jeremiah 31:32

… Our second sin, probably, is that we have been negligent in His service. It is the wife's joy to please her husband and unkindness or negligence from …

Thrice Happy Day!

Haggai 2:19

… some service for God which lies upon your heart, I pray you to remember your Lord's words and to imitate His prompt action, "I must work the …

A Sore Grievance

Jeremiah 50:6

… When afflicted in body, distressed with severe labor, or reduced to poverty, we might as well try to find rest on the sea, or on a bed of …

Harvest Men Needed

Matthew 9:37

… labor—they must off with their coats and go at it in their shirt-sleeves—I mean they must doff their dignities and get to Christ's work …

A Clear Conscience

Psalm 119:6

… way to blessedness! Nor can we serve the Lord in this active work unless we labor in all things to mind His will and walk according to His …

Meeting Of Our Own Church

… He had permitted them to labor heartily and unanimously in the work, and He had opened the hearts of His people generally throughout the land to help them …

Messages to Sinners and Saints

Isaiah 30:15

… the Covenant God in Heaven! It is by the way of the Person, work and merits of the Incarnate Son of God that you must climb into His …

The Mighty Arm

Psalm 89:13

… time, to His own glorious work, no good can come of all your toils— "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Having …

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… These men were made to labor to exhaustion. They had to work in making bricks and, as you well remember, they were denied the straw so necessary to …