Church Sermons

Nearly all the chapters and the title of the book, was given to me one afternoon in June, 1896, while traveling on the train from Toronto to Detroit I have not been able to put into the book all the things that I had hoped to, and have had to write out many of the chapters at intervals, amid other pressing labors. Amid the multitude of books in recent years on Christian holiness, most of them treat of the human side, explaining sin, consecration, faith, and religious duties. A very few of them treat mainly of the Divine side, of the perfection of the Divine nature; and I know of none that ...

Advent to Epiphany is the first volume in the From Text to Sermon series designed to help pastors and their flocks better understand the rhythm and purpose of the Christian calendar. As Christians, we view time from a different perspective than the rest of the world. We may use the same seconds, minutes, hours, dates, and days, but we view the meaning and purpose of history and the future by considering God’s actions through the children of Abraham and through His only begotten Son, Jesus of Nazareth. Certain events in the Bible, though over two thousand years old, provide the key to ...

This little book is sent forth with the earnest prayer that God may make it a blessing to all who are longing for a better apprehension of Christ and what he may be to them. There is no claim made in it to literary excellence; if any one should read it in search of this, he will find much in it to criticise. This is not in any sense a discussion. I have no contention with the brother who may differ with me; I only long to exalt Christ. The words were first spoken with a desire that they might be used of God to lead some one into closer fellowship with our Lord, and, now that they are to be ...

“CHRIST IS ALL.”—Col. iii. 6. My text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. What a multitude of religions there are in this poor wicked world of ours. Men have taken it into their heads to invent various systems of religion, and if you look round the world you will see scores of different sects; but it is a great fact, that while there are a multitude of false religions, there is but one that is true. While there are many falsehoods, there can be but one truth— real religion is therefore ...

Only He who made our hearts fully understands them; and no one but the Son of man who is the Son of God can be touched with the feeling of all our infirmi¬ties, having been in all points tried as we have been tried. But whoever has had any experience of trials, suffering, sorrow, bereavement, and has been divinely helped to profit by that experience, can hope to be of service in words of sympathy to those similarly tried and troubled. It is the heart which bleeds with its own sorrows which can go out in living sympathy toward another bleeding heart; and it is the hearts that have gained ...

Seven Letters to Seven Churches, Seven Messages to Pastors and Churches from the Book of Revelation is a compilation of sermons preached at the Concord Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, IL. The sermon series focuses on the seven letters to seven churches documented in Revelation 2-3. In Revelation 1:11, Jesus instructs John to write, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, ...

In 1900, Mary Baker Eddy offered this timeless message to members of her growing First Church of Christ, Scientist. In it, she encourages right thinking, right acting, and right working, along with unselfishness, charity, receptivity, and obedience to God.

"Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world." John xviii: 36. These words were spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ under circumstances perhaps the most critical, and certainly among the most astonishing of all, in which, as Man, He was ever found. He was stand ing, a prisoner, before Pilate; the Lord of Heaven before the representative of the greatest Empire on earth. Pilate had reason to think that He had been meddling with the politics of Judea. He questioned him accordingly as to a suspected intention of in terfering between the government and the people, of taking sides with one of the...

As a preacher, you are the response of Heaven to the cry of your city!Clarify your calling, strengthen your character, and develop your craft as a preacher.In this book, Samuel Deuth, the author of the best selling book, Following Jesus, shares from his 20+ years of preaching and ministry leadership experience.Whether you're just beginning in ministry or you've been following the call for years, this book will stir and encourage you in three specific areas that are the building blocks of your ministry role.This book from Samuel Deuth, is packed with powerful and practical training to help ...

BRILLIANTS ¬ Selected from the Writings of C. H. SPURGEON *** ¬ The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time, but using every hour for the highest ends. *** So sweet are the comforts of the Lord, that not only the saints themselves may sing of them, but even the heavens and the earth may take up the song. It Cakes something to make a mountain sing; and yet the prophet summons quite a choir of them. Lebanon, and Sirion, and the high hills of Bashan and Moab, he would set them all singing because of Jehovah's grace to His own Zion. May we not also make mountains ...

In this book, you will learn about discerning evil to protect yourselves from deception, manipulation, or the result of selfishness. We can protect ourselves from others using the Holy Spirit to guide us. Scriptures will be shared to show how this works. Also discussed will be the behaviors of hypocrisy and condemnation. People respond against us through jealousy, fear, or intimidation even if it is not warranted. We’ll talk about how to discern those behaviors too.

The audiobook 104 Fantastic Children's Sermons is an excellent resource for youth leaders, pastors, and parents. The sermons were written by longtime pastor and novelist Joe C. Ellis. This book would also work well for homeschooling Bible lessons or bedtime listening for parents who want their children to hear scripture-based stories on a regular basis.

For many pastors and church leaders, ministry is an exhausting, frustrating, and even fruitless endeavor. Driven by programs and cultural trends, churches are competing to stay relevant and effective in a hostile world. What if there were a better way - a way of rest and of power - the way of abiding?

“When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.”—ST. John viii. 10, 11. IT is a singular fact, that the authenticity of this passage, the inspiration of it, has been frequently denied. I believe it is not at the present time received among the Greek Churches, although it was usually adopted among the Latin Churches. Calvin doubted its inspiration, Beza, and many of the most eminent ...

BELOVED FRIENDS AND BRETHREN, I cannot reach your hearts, I know well. It is not in me,—it needs the finger of God. But I can set before you my earnest wishes for every class among you, and I will do it, the Lord being my helper. Bear with me if I say things that sound sharp and hard. Set it down to my anxiety for your salvation;—I mean it all for your good. I write none other things but what I have gathered from the Bible, and as such I commend them to your consciences. Consider what I say, and the Lord give you understanding in all things. I grant you may be quick and clever about the...

Mary Baker Eddy's "Message to The Mother Church for 1901" offers insight into the nature of God’s infinitude; Christ; the pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist; medicine; and other topics relevant to the practice of Christian Science today.

Even in the desert, God is present. Even in uncertainty, the Spirit leads. In Honoring Our Past, Embracing Our Future, Rev. Harvey Hill offers a moving and insightful collection of sermons commemorating the 100th anniversary of Saint David’s Episcopal Church in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Spanning over a decade of ministry, this volume captures pivotal moments in the life of the church—from the fresh hope of Hill’s early sermons in 2011, through the profound challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the joyful reflections of the centennial year in 2025. With warmth, clarity, and ...

There are about seven million Jews in existence in all the nations of the earth. They are living in almost every land under the sun. They excel all other people in being despised. There is not another race or people that is in such a sense a benefactor of the human race as they are, and have been. There is not another people under the sun that is treated so like despicable miscreants as they are, and have been. For two thousand years they have experienced hatred and contempt and persecution. They are an extraordinary race by their faults, by their virtues, and by their long experience. They...

Gentleness is a beautiful quality. It is essential to all true character. Nobody admires ungentleness in man or woman. When a man is harsh, cold, unfeeling, unkind, and rude and rough in his manner, no one speaks of his fine spirit. When a woman is loud-voiced, dictorial, petulant, given to speaking bitter words and doing unkindly things, no person is ever heard saying of her, “What a lovely disposition she has!” She may have many excellent qualities, and may do much good, but her ungentleness mars the beauty of her character. No man is truly great who is not gentle. Courage and ...

I have published this little volume very much in self-defense. Some years ago I delivered a lecture on "Eccentric Preachers," and a reporter's notes of it were published in one of the newspapers. These, like all such things, were mere pickings and cuttings, and by no means the lecture itself. Gentlemen of the press have an eye to the amusement of their readers, and make selections of all the remarkable anecdotes, or odd sayings, used by a speaker, and when these are separated from their surroundings the result is anything but satisfactory. No man's speeches or lectures should be judged of ...