Work & Service

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… We can always have a deluge if we do not wish for it, but if we fix a service out of doors for next Sunday morning, we have …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… Church, a College for young ministers, which is a work of faith as to temporals, and a labour of love on my part in the highest sense of …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… I will meditate also of all thy work. Sweet work to enter into Jehovah's work of grace, and there to lie down and ruminate, every thought being …

Psalm 135

Psalm 135

… praise labour to excite the like spirit in others. It is not enough for us to praise God ourselves, we are quite unequal to such a work; let …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… It is a great help to a man to find godly work-fellows. If he must needs go a-fishing like Peter, it is a grand thing to …

A Revival Sermon

Amos 9:13

… Notice the activity of labour which is mentioned in the text. God does not promise that there shall be fruitful crops without labor; but here we find mention …

Psalm 105

Psalm 105

… They inherited the labour of the people. In like manner the heavenly Canaan is enjoyed by the saints without any labour of theirs; this inheritance is not of …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… work so many hours in the six days, — really, it is twelve days in six, for what is it better than that when he has two days' labour …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… It deprives me of higher service, and work I love more. This is my only reason for giving it up. With the night and day work in the …

The Heavenly Race

1 Corinthians 9:24

… work “it is in vain to rise up early and sit up late, and eat the bread of carefulness; for except the Lord build the house, they labor …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… The zeal and diligence of the wicked in the cause of unrighteousness might well reprove the languor and tardiness of saints in the work of faith and labour …

“A New Departure”

… If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labour under heaven. If you and I attend …

Later Services at the Music Hall

… We have had special work, special trial, special deliverance, and we ought pre-eminently to be a church, loving God, and spending and being spent in His service …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… of mental labour, — it is a glance at ministers as they are. It is not an easy task; but, then, we go to this work with a two …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… Every interval of relief shall be laid out in His service. The time is short, it must therefore be spent all the more economically ; the work is great …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… When the family returned from the morning service, varied emotions filled their souls. They had never before heard just such preaching; they were bewildered, and amazed, but they …

Psalm 26

Psalm 26

… Faith will work hard for the Lord, and in the Lord's way, but she refuses so much as to lift a finger to fulfil the devices of …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… more joy I found in the happy service. I was also specially sustained under the strain of such constant labour by continual tokens of the Lord's approval …

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

… Here is noble work for him, for the cry of the last Psalm is about to be heard, and the challenge of the foes of Israel taken up …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… What is there which an evil tongue will not say? What misery will it not labour to inflict? And bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter …

The Bliss of the Glorified

Revelation 7:16

… themselves in Christ's service were buried in a cemetery by themselves, it would be a long while before it would get filled. Work hard for Christ. It …

Light. Fire. Faith. Life. Love.

… Labour to be  alive in all your duties.  John Bradford, the martyr, used to say, “I never go away from any part of the service of God till …

The “Down-grade” Controversy Foreshadowed

… I would be sorry to write so much, and expend so much labour, on a work so little calculated to arouse the careless, guide the wanderer, comfort the …

Perfection in Faith

Hebrews 10:14

… his service he could not use unhallowed instruments? The Lord God is so pure that he could not use anything but a perfect tool to work with. “Then …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… in the heat and burden of the day is in the field of labour. You are not orphans, the “Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the …

Sermons — Their Matter

… Their labour otherwise is like to be in vain. Neglect of this course is a main cause that men fall into many errors as they do in these …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… the gospel, and labour on until the more hopeless, the most hopeless, are brought there. Oh! let us gird up our loins for Christian work! believing that if …

Two Coverings and Two Consequences

Proverbs 38:13

… He has discovered that sin has made him naked, and he has set to work to clothe himself. As I shall have to show you presently, he has …

Psalm 19

Psalm 19

… Day bids us labour, night reminds us to prepare for our last hime; day bids us work for God,and night invites us to rest in him; day …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

… and because the variations are too uniform, consistent, and significant, to be the work of chance or mere traditional corruption. That the changes were deliberately made by a …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890

… I am best at work, — my own work. Still, God bless you, and the Master Cutler, and all the good folk ! " Yours heartily, The invitation to tea at …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… He delighteth to undertake strange things; to bring light out of darkness; order out of confusion; to send life into the dead; to heal the leprosy; to work …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… Oh! that there might be a thorough work of the Spirit in your souls, a work of grace that should bring you to Jesus to be rooted and …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… They compass sea and land to injure a saint; no labour is too severe, no cost too great if they may utterly destroy the innocent. Our comfort is …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… If you ever were his, he never will let you sink into hell; but, oh! it will be hard work for you to get to heaven. You will …

In the Sunny South

… I have no task work, and do more voluntarily, as a recreation, than I have often done of obligation. No idle tongues disturb me, or cares molest me …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… Why did Jesus Christ make it his work to restore what he took not away? (a) It was a necessary work, a work which must be done, in …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… above all things we must in our service of song take care that all we offer is with the heart's sincerest and most fervent intent directed toward …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… He often gives the foes of Zion some other work to do, and so gives rest to his church. What a glorious idea is this of Jehovah blocking …

The Memorable Hymn

… This singing of the Saviour also teaches us the whole-heartedness of the Master in the work which He was about to do. The patriot-warrior sings as …