Work & Service

Joy, Joy Forever

Psalm 5:11

… Oh, for a touch of flame! Then would they scatter light and thus become of service to their families. "Let them shout for joy." Why not? Let not …

Our Ascended Lord

1 Peter 3:22

… While He was occupied with His holy service, He did not sit down. There were no seats for the priests in the tabernacle—their work was too laborious …

Good Cheer for the Needy

Psalm 9:18

… Patience will yet have her perfect work and the suffering will end when it has accomplished its purpose. You are persecuted and despised, perhaps, but you shall not …

Mary's Magnificat

Luke 1:46

… To work is the stalk of the wheat, but to praise is the full corn in the ear. You and I, Beloved, are living to praise God. This …

Pilate and Ourselves Guilty of the Savior's Death

Matthew 27:24

… Not by words does He save mankind and not by lip service is He to be repaid! Pilate spoke boldly enough and then retreated before the clamors of …

The Profit Of Godliness In The Life To Come

1 Timothy 4:8

… Though his work had no aim beyond this life, and paid no homage to the God of the Gospel, yet even professed Christians will fall at the man …

The Necessity of Increased Faith

Luke 17:5

… With faith I can do all things; without faith I shall neither have the inclination nor the power to do anything in the service of God. If you …

Howling Changed To Singing

Psalm 13:1

… I wonder whether we shall get two such photographs, tonight—some sitting here complaining, who, before the service is over, will go their way rejoicing? God grant that …

Hosanna!

Matthew 2:19

… And though some of them were hurt, yet he noticed how bravely they stood by him through the service. He thought it a token for good that children …

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… Faith is a supernatural work wherever it is found and if we think that we can beget faith in ourselves or others by the use of the fleshy …

How "The Unspeakable" is Spoken of

Psalm 145:6

… Pray that the Holy Spirit may work with the chastisement to produce health and healing to the souls of men. II. Be ready with the second part of …

Love Pledging Fidelity

1 Samuel 18:3

… Or you may know of some part of the work of Christ that needs help that will cost you much self-denial to render. Do it, but tell …

No Tears In Heaven

Revelation 7:17

… Let us pray that tribulation may work patience and patience experience and experience the hope which makes us not ashamed. Let us pray that as the sharp edge …

The Throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:3

… On the other hand, the relish that we have for religious worship and the delight we take in Christian work leads us to think of Heaven as a …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… One alone cannot fulfil the praise, there must be picked choristers under him, whose joyful privilege it shall be to celebrate the service of song in the house …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… After Asa had thus, by Divine strength, won a great victory, he did not, as some do, grow proud of it, but he set to work, in obedience …

Peter After His Restoration

Luke 22:32

… Let us accept remarkable discipline if thereby we are qualified for remarkable service. If by the roughness of our own road we are trained to conduct the Lord …

The Strong One Driven Out By A Stronger One

Luke 11:21-26

… You talk to him about the work of the Spirit in his soul, convincing him of sin, breaking him with the hammer of the Law or by the …

God's Memorial Of His People

Isaiah 49:16

… There has been an ungracious negligence in the service of God. You have not called upon me, O Jacob." 22. But you have been weary of Me, O …

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… We know the work is done. We are sure our shots have told on their armor, when they are driven to return on us their calumnies and the …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… But, let me tell you, there is one point on which all Christians agree and that is concerning the Person, the work, and the blessed offices of our …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… A man may know much about Christ—whose Son He is, what work He came to do, what He is still doing and what He will yet do …

Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blessed"

Psalm 72:17

… The wonderful blessings which are comprised in the work, Person and offices of the Holy Spirit—all these come to us through Jesus Christ, the ever-blessed and …

A Blessed Gospel Chain

John 14:23

… You know that in the Church of England service there are certain places where the clergyman says, "saying after me," so that it is not simply the minister …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… Have no finger in the work, yourself, but leave it all to Him. Commit yourself entirely and absolutely to those mighty hands that molded the heavens and the …

The Blessed Guest Detained

Luke 24:28

… But if it is some greater work, the peril is increased. When Christ said, "It is finished," He opened a river of comfort. But when we exclaim, "I …

"On His Breast"

John 13:23-26

… And sometimes, when I think of this great Church and the College and the Orphanage and the many cares the whole service brings into my heart, I have …

Christ and His Table Companions

Luke 22:14

… and Sisters, are you all consciously Christ's servants? If so, though the service may at times seem heavy because your faith is weak, yet be very thankful …

The Lord's Own View of His Church and People

Solomon 4:12

… Either his office, his work, his nationality, or his peculiar character strikes you in many a man rather than his manhood. But Jesus is the Man, the model …

The Roaring Lion

1 Peter 5:8

… By Him that called me to this work, I will see this battle out and in the name of Him who has been my Helper up to now …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… Holy fear is a work of the Holy Spirit, and woe unto the man who does not possess it! Let him boast as he may, his "feeding himself …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… God help you to fill it well! True intercessors, then, are special gifts from God and when He raises up men or women for this high service, you …

Spiritual Sight and Eternal Life

John 14:19

… the Cross and saw Him die in that dread culmination of His life-work, when He was paying the price of His people's redemption. They stood and …

The Form and Spirit of Religion

1 Samuel 4:3

… The leprosy lies deep within; and unless there be an inward work, no outward work can ever satisfy God, and give us an entrance into Paradise. But before …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… You yourself are conscious that a work of Divine Grace has been worked upon you, whereas you were blind now you see—and you know it! The blind …

"The Offense of the Cross"

Galatians 5:11

… But that method did not work, so the devil now adopts other measures. He found that the more he oppressed them, like Israel in Egypt, the more they …

Praying In The Holy Spirit

… when we have bowed the knee in what we thought to be the service of God, we were actually insulting the God of Heaven by uttering words which …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… Such contemplations will be of the utmost service to you. Our Lord's Words read as if the one hour of which He spoke completely drove into the …

A Little Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:16

… No bishop had ever been upon the spot to consecrate it, no service had been held in the place by way of dedication, and yet when he awoke …

The Curse and the Curse for Us

Galatians 3:10-14

… It says, "continues not." What if a man should have kept the Law, in his own judgment, for many years? His service is not over. Men join our …