Work & Service

The Pleiades and Orion

Job 38:31

… I am sure this Church was in about as bad a plight as we could well suppose for the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit to work in …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… These are arguments for song service which men who love true piety, real pleasure, and strict propriety will not despise. Please to praise, for praise is pleasant: praise …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… Let us work for Jesus while we can work for him. As to thinking we can undo the effect of our idleness by the spasmodic effort of our …

Fourfold Satisfaction

Jeremiah 31:14

… And their service, viewed from one special point, is that of priests. Christ has made all of us who believe in Him to be kings and priests unto …

What Had Become of Peter?

Acts 12:18

… Grace makes man active! God has been diligently at work with you—now you must diligently work together with Him. 5-7. Add to your faith virtue; and …

Grace and Glory

Psalm 84:11

… Half-hearted worship is dreary work. It is like a blind horse going round in a mill. But when the heart is in the service, we feel, then …

'The Blood of the Testament'

Hebrews 9:19

… I could gladly wish that you all labored after Eternal Life until your strength failed, and that you might then rejoice in Him who has finished the work …

Early Wedded Life

… Medhurst, who was the first to receive training for the work. From so small a beginning sprang the present Pastors' College, with its splendid record of service both …

The King Passing Over Kidron

2 Samuel 15:23

… Wait and let Him have His time, and the good work around you, and the work within you will prove to be successful after all! Just at this …

Ancestry and Genealogy

… SMILES, one of the ablest authors of our time, has produced a work upon the Huguenots [ The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland. By …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… In the 10th chapter, at the 3rd verse, he appealed to Him thus, "Is it good unto You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work …

Who Should Be Baptized?

Acts 8:37

… Further, imagine that there are two workmen, to both of whom the king gives the command, "Set to work and mend that window." One of them says, "I …

Under His Shadow

… Continuance of repose and joy is purchased for us by our Lord’s perfected work. Under the shadow she found food; she had no need to leave it …

Communion With Christ And His People

… The fellowship of service is exceedingly honourable, when we and Christ work together for the same objects; the fellowship of suffering is exceedingly instructive, when our heart has …

The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

… But believe me, it is not so! If the work of Grace is really worked of God in your soul, it will last through your whole life! And …

The Power of Christ's Name

Acts 3:16

… He was no amateur Savior, but He was commissioned of the Father and He received of the Father all that was necessary for the accomplishment of the work …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… He has not cast away His people whom He did foreknow, and He never will! Has He put His hand to the work of their salvation? He will …

Christ Loosens From Infirmities

Luke 13:11-13

… This woman, too, must have been very unfit for active service. Little of household duty could she perform, and that with pain. And as to public acts of …

The Great Cross-bearer and His Followers

Mark 15:20

… Death should be part of the usual curriculum, the close of the day's work, the entrance into harbor which ends the voyage. It is well to feel …

The Free-agency of Christ

Mark 8:22-26

… Possibly you went with the great crowd that gathered to hear some notable evangelist and, after the public service, you went into the enquiry-room, as you heard …

Mourning For Christ

Zechariah 12:10

… Men may persuade and even inspired Prophets may warn without effect, but when the Lord puts His hand to the work, He never fails! As soon as He …

The Soul's Best Food

Isaiah 55:2

… can do much more work than it could otherwise have done! Sunday school teachers are apt to think, "We cannot attend a weeknight service—we must be thinking …

Jesus In Our Midst

John 20:19

… Luke's picture of it shows us the contending emotions at work in the breasts of the assembled Brothers and Sisters, for Luke was a physician and accustomed …

A Strange Yet Gracious Choice

Psalm 135:4

… Make it a part of your service. Praise Him because you are His servants. Praise Him because He accepts your service. You ought to be first in sounding …

Guests for the Royal Feast

Matthew 22:8-10

… the very last to dream of being excused from further service—they are wedded to the work forever! I would to God that you who have been unsuccessful …

The Lowly King

Zechariah 9:9

… He became actually obedient; having put on the livery of service, he executed the lowest office. Never scullion in a king's kitchen did menial work so thoroughly …

Pride Catechized and Condemned

1 Corinthians 4:7

… When he persecuted the saints of God he did it ignorantly, in unbelief, and thought he did God service; and all his life long for him to know …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… Besides, your contrition of heart is the work of the Holy Spirit and where the Holy Spirit is at work, there God the Father loves to be! Don …

Preaching for the Poor

… It was no dull work to hear this King of preachers, he was too much in earnest to be dull, and too humane to be incomprehensible. I believe …

"The Ark of His Covenant"

Revelation 11:19

… He has not gone abut the longest way to do His work, but He has done it in the wisest and most prudent manner, all that was for …

Deadness and Quickning

Psalm 119:37

… But I do say this—if a man, calling himself a Christian, should live for mere frivolity—if to him life should be all play and no work …

Redeemed Souls Freed From Fear

… I WAS lamenting this morning my unfitness for my work, and especially for the warfare to which I am called. A sense of heaviness came over me, but …

Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten

Isaiah 49:16

… We cannot add anything to His Atonement—that work must forever stand as complete and unique—but there are other forms of service in which He engaged in …

"Jesus Only" —a Communion Meditation

Mark 9:8

… You can work and earn your own living. But now suppose a case. Suppose there is a man somewhere on the face of the earth who can say …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… To the Chief Musician, He who had the leadership of the Temple service was charged with the use of this song in public worship. What is everybody's …

Revelation and Conversion

Psalm 19:7

… He knows that the work that has saved him is the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ and that he has not to add even one thread …

Precepts and Promises

John 12:26

… If any man serves Christ, his service will be most like his Lord's when he does, as nearly as he can, what Christ did. He is your …

The Covenant Promise of the Spirit

Ezekiel 36:27

… Lo, there comes One into the matter who will not fail, with whom nothing is impossible! And He begins His work by saying, "I will put My Spirit …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… Where Divine Grace has worked a great work its memory lingers. As it is written, "You will have a desire to the work of your hands." In this …

Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:15

… Only fulfill Your work in me and then Call me, and bid me answer, 'Here am I.' 'My child, the sign I waited for is given. Your work …