I want someone who knows the difference between the duties of a chef and a gardener serving my meals! In the process of providing a healthy and appetizing repast, there is the need for pitchforks, dirt, and compost–but not on my dinner table! In the same way there is a substantial difference between the energy […]
Tell me, was it not God who commanded by Moses that no image or likeness of anything which was in heaven above or which was on the earth should be made, and yet who caused the brazen serpent to be made by Moses in the wilderness, and set it up for a sign by which […]
In the true sermon there must always be passion. But the passion must be something that is created by no conscious effort. It must come out of what we are declaring, and out of our consciousness of it. Half the sermons today–may I be forgiven if I am cruel–are failing because they lack the note […]
“And when they had lifted their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only” (Mt. 17:8). The last words will suffice us for a text, “Jesus only.” When Peter saw our Lord with Moses and Elias, he exclaimed, “Master, it is good to be here,” as if implying it was better to be with Jesus, […]
God cares for His people through gifted men* speaking His truth. It is true that those who publically preach the Word of God have an obligation to deliver the highest quality ministry to the best of their God-given ability. It is also true that listeners have an equal obligation to listen to the best of […]
“The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” And what were they called before that? It was nearly twenty years after the commencement of the Christian movement before this name was invented. Our text says, “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” They were called disciples before they received the name of Christians. You […]
“The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good” (Ps. 34:10). One might have pardoned David at such a moment in the wilderness of his life if some cloud of doubt or despondency had crept over his soul. But instead of that his words are […]
“We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done…That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they […]
Preaching has a place in Christianity which it has in no other religion. If it is true that preaching is the product of the church, it is also true that the church is the product of preaching. For the church did not spread in its earliest centuries through the sword or with the backing of […]