Work & Service

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… I would not discourage you, but I would have you feel how great a labour lies before you, and how impossible it will be unless you are girt …

Watch-Night Service

Psalm 90:1-22

… If he rises early in the morning, and sends some into his vineyard to labour, he does not send them before they should go—before there is work …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… But Jesus is greatly displeased with any who shall say about the work, “It is too hard; it is impossible.” My brethren in Christ, labour for souls of …

The Necessity of Ministerial Progress

… For God’s sake, let us know how men are to be saved, and get to the work: to be for ever deliberating as to the proper mode …

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… This should be our morning's work. Should there not be the morning song? This should be the evening's work. Let it be our vespers to bless …

Lecture 2: On Commenting

… Book is of immense service to him. If any are jealous lest the labour should injure their constitutions, let them remember that mental work up to a certain …

The Preacher’s Power, and the Conditions of Obtaining It

… in its proper proportions, is no small work for such feeble creatures as we are. In this grand, yet delicate labour, we have to persevere year after year …

A New School of the Prophets

… Wales, is still spared to labour for the Lord at Hope Baptist Chapel, Canton, Cardiff; and he has kindly written for this work a fuller and more accurate …

Later Literary Works

… It will address itself to those faithful friends, scattered everywhere, who are our well-wishers and supporters in our work of faith and labour of love. We feel …

Preface to the Second Series

… Rogers, compares my Friday work to the sharpening of the pin: the fashioning of the head, the straightening, the laying on of the metal and the polishing have …

The Pastors' College

… desires us to pursue this labour of love. We need, at least, 100 pounds every week of the year. Since our service is gratuitous in every sense, we …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… soon you and I will be laid aside from our service! Our grave is preparing; is our work done? If mine be accomplished, I tremble as I think …

Mr. Spurgeon as a Literary Man

… Calvinism, then, is the spiritual meat which enables a man to labour on in the ways of Christian service ; and, though ridiculed as a hump by those who …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… Their faith is firm and strong; they have much love to the Redeemer; they are engaged in some delightful work, and the Holy Spirit attends that work with …

God's Gentle Power

1 Kings 19:11-13

… But you say, "What is his command then? What is the work of God-this great work that God commands? This is the one gospel precept, "Believe in …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… That breaking up of the day, I have no doubt tends, after all, to shorten the hours of labour ; but there is work to be done in the …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… See there, he dies, and it is a master work to die. But is his death mine? Yes, I die in Christ. He rises. Mark him startling his …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… This all nations need, but many of them do not know it, desire it, or seek it; our prayer and labour should be, that the knowledge of salvation …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… Let us keep to the work of this present sowing time, and find strength in the promise which is here so positively given us. Here is one of …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… Man, indeed, goeth forth to his work and to his labour till the evening; but alike as he goes forth in the morning, and as he returns in …

Christ’s Prayer for His People

John 17:15

… Therefore, stop here, and work and labour. My dear friends, I had intended to preach from the other half of the verse, but that is quite impossible, the …

Stewards

… at the door; we must work with all our might. We must not be eye-servants except in this sense that we labour in the Lord’s presence …

Individuality, and Its Opposite

… as we have; if the work be true and honest, we ought neither to censure others nor to condemn ourselves because our labour is after its own kind …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… it is far more his work than ours he will secure it immortality. When we have withered like grass our holy service, like gold, silver, and precious stones …

Psalm 28

Psalm 28

… Heart work is sure work; heart trust is never disappointed. Faith must come before help, but help will never be long behindhand. Every day the believer may say …

The Incarnation and Birth of Christ

Micah 5:2

… However, I wish there were ten or a dozen Christmas-days in the year; for there is work enough in the world, and a little more rest would …

The Long Illness

… the Lord's service under the shadow of an impending calamity which threatened to add still greater solemnity to the memorial character of the work. About that time …

The Call to the Ministry

… A warm and earnest desire to be employed in this service. I apprehend the man who is once moved by the Spirit of God to this work, will …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… That our oxen may be strong to labour ; so that the ploughing and cartage of the farm may be duly performed, and the husbandman's work may be …

Blessing on the Printed Sermons

… Also please pray that this work of publishing the sermons here may abundantly prosper. Wishing you every success and happiness in your noble work, Yours truly. The four …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Concluded)

… Unless I go to the North Pole, I never can get away from my holy labour. “Now to return to you again, I have had day-dreams of …

Cheer Up, My Comrades!

2 Chronicles 35:2

… the service of thy house! ‘Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; establish thou the work of our hands: yea, the work of our …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” Yet I …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… We do not buy wines in England to carry them to France, spices in France to carry them to the Indies; so for labour and work, repentance and …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… Be sociable and cheerful and all that, but labour to accomplish something. Why should you sow the wind, or plough a rock? Consider yourself, after all, as being …

Varying Voices–Pro and Con

… And I will also say that, whenever God is pleased to raise up a man by individual power to move the world, or to work any reform. He …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… Unto his work and to his labour until the evening. He goes not forth to sport but to work, not to loiter but to labour; at least, this …

Psalm 108

Psalm 108

… It is not a cursory work. Man's thoughts naturally labour with a great inconsistency; but meditation chains them, and fastens them upon some spiritual object. The soul …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… So far as this occasions Sunday work, I regret it ; but I have no more to do with it than you have. I have never been in any …

The Absent Pastor’s Care for his Flock

… Bartlett, “With constant thanksgiving, I remember your work of faith and labour of love; and I pray the Lord to sustain you, and make you still a joyful …