2.) Christ is Precious
      How precious is Christ to the believer in the hour of conviction of sin, when he says, "Your sins, which are many, are all forgiven you." How precious to you in the hour of sickness, when He comes to you and says, "I will make your bed in your sickne ...read more

3.) Greatness of Christ
      "Paul preached the gospel better than I do, but even he could not preach a better gospel," declared C. H. Spurgeon. My Master has such riches that you cannot count them; you cannot guess them, much less can you convey their fullness in words. The ...read more

4.) Yield to the Holy Spirit
      As God He is good essentially . . . . He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills; quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for the skies as a loving nurse fosters her child. . . ...read more

5.) Retaining the Risen Lord
      Yet you would not be so glad to see Him as He would be to see you. He is very dear to you; but He is not so dear to you as you are to Him. . . He loves you more than you can ever love Him. . . . . When we are running on our Master's errands, we m ...read more

6.) A Defense of Calvinism
      The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of ...read more

7.) A New Year's Benediction
      THE apostle Peter turns from exhortation to prayer. He knew that if praying be the end of preaching in the hearer, preaching should always be accompanied by prayer in the minister. Having exhorted believers to walk steadfastly, lie bends his knee and ...read more

8.) A Revival Sermon
      GOD'S promises are not exhausted when they are fulfilled, for when once performed, they stand just as good as they did before, and we may await a second accomplishment of them. Man's promises even at the best, are like a cistern which holds but a tem ...read more

9.) A Simple Remedy
      EVER SINCE THE FALL, healing has been the chief necessity of manhood. There was no physician in paradise, but outside that blissful enclosure professors of the healing art have been precious as the gold of Ophir. Even in Eden itself there grew the ...read more

10.) A Solemn Warning For All Churches
      MY LEARNED AND EMINENTLY pious predecessor, Dr. Gill, is of opinion that the different churches spoken of in the Book of Revelation are types of different states through which the church of God shall pass until it comes into the Philadelphia state, t ...read more

11.) A Woman Which Was a Sinner
      This is the woman who has been confounded with Mary Magdalene. How the error originated it would not be easy to imagine, but error it certainly is. There is not the slightest shadow of evidence that this woman, who was a sinner, had even the remotest ...read more

12.) Confession of Sin
      My sermon this morning will have seven texts, and yet I pledge myself that there shall be but three different words in the whole of them; for it so happens that the seven texts are all alike, occurring in seven different portions of God's holy Word. ...read more

13.) Christ's Prayer For His People
      This prayer of Christ is an ever precious portion to all true believers, from the fact that each of them has an inalienable interest in it. Every one of us, beloved, when we listen to the words of Christ should recollect that he is praying for us; th ...read more

14.) Election
      If there were no other text in the sacred Word except this one, I think we should all be bound to receive and acknowledge the truthfulness of the great and glorious doctrine of God's ancient choice of his family. But there seems to be an inveterate p ...read more

15.) Elijah's Appeal To The Undecided
      IT was a day to be remembered, when the multitudes of Israel were assembled at the foot of Carmel, and when the solitary prophet of the Lord came forth to defy the four hundred and fifty priests of the false god. We might look upon that scene with th ...read more

16.) Exposition of 1 Corinthians 15
      There were people in the Apostles' days who had an idea that there was no resurrection. Paul endeavours refute the idea, and teaches the Corinthians that there was a resurrection from the dead. From the 1st to the 11th verse he proves the resurrectio ...read more

17.) For The Troubled
      IT IS THE business of a shepherd not only to look after the happy ones among the sheep, but to seek after the sick of the flock and to lay himself out right earnestly for their comfort and succor. I feel, therefore, that I do rightly when I make it m ...read more

18.) Faith and Repentance Inseparable
      "Repent ye, and believe the gospel."Mark 1:15 Our Lord Jesus Christ commences his ministry by announcing its leading commands. He cometh up from the wilderness newly anointed, like the bridegroom from his chamber; his love notes are repentance a ...read more

19.) A "Prayer Tip" from Charles Spurgeon
      I like to open the Bible and pray, "Lord God, let the words leap off the page into my soul; make them vivid, powerful, and fresh to my heart." "How are we to handle this sword of 'It is written'? First, with deepest reverence. Let every word tha ...read more

42.) Christian Liberality
      Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. (Psalm 41:1) To think about the poor and let them lie on our hearts is a Christian man's duty; for Jesus put them with us and near us when He said, "The poor ye h ...read more

43.) A Completed Sacrifice
      And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering: and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. (Leviticus 1:4) If by that laying on of his hand the bullock became the offerer's sacrifice, how much more shall Jesus become ...read more

44.) Care of Our Feet
      He will keep the feet of his saints. (1 Samuel 2:9) The way is slippery and our feet are feeble, but the Lord will keep our feet. If we give ourselves up by obedient faith to be His holy ones, He will Himself be our guardian. Not only will He charge ...read more

45.) He Acts on Honest Confession
      He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which divas right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. (Job 33:27-28) This is a word of truth, gathered fr ...read more

46.) God Routs Fear
      Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. (Numbers 23;23) How this should cut up root and branch all silly, superstitious fears! Even if there were any truth in witchcraft and omens, they could not ...read more

47.) Precious Repentance
      And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye hate committed. (Ezekiel 20:43) When we are accepted of the Lord and are standing i ...read more

48.) Tears Shall Cease
      And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Revelation 21:4) Yes, we shall carne to this if we are believers. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. There shall be a new heaven an ...read more

49.) Obedience Brings Blessing
      Observe and hear all these words, which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God. (Deuteronomy 12;28) Though salvation is ...read more

50.) A Heavenly Escort
      And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest. (Genesis 28:15) Do we need journeying mercies? Here are choice ones -- God's presence and preservation, In all places we need both of these, and in all places we shall ...read more

51.) God Always Hears
      My God will hear me. (Micah 7:7) Friends may be unfaithful, but the Lord will not turn away from the gracious soul; on the contrary, He will hear all its desires. The prophet says, "Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. A man ...read more

52.) Never Despair
      But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. (Malachi 4.2) Fulfilled once in the first advent of our glorious Lord, and yet to have a fuller accomplishment in His second advent, this gracious word is ...read more

53.) Grow Up
      And ye shaQ go for th, and grew up as calves of the staU. (Malachi <:2) Yes, when the sun shines, the sick quit their chambers and walk abroad to breathe the fresh air. When the sun brings spring and summer, the cattle quit their stalls and seek pas ...read more

54.) He Freely Gives
      He that spared not his nun Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32) I f this is not a promise in form, it is in fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a conglomerate of p ...read more

55.) He Will Return
      I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John 14:18) He left us, and yet we are not left orphans. He is our comfort, and He is gone; but we are not comfortless. Our comfort is that He will come to us, and this is consolation enough to ...read more

56.) Justice Satisfied
      When I see the blood, l mill pass over you. (Exodus 12:13) My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the Lord's sight of it which secures my safety. Even when I am unable to behold it, the Lord looks at it and passes over me be ...read more

57.) Blessing in the City
      If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, blessed shalt thou be in the city. (Deuteronomy 28:2-3) The city is full of care, and he who has to go there from day to day finds it to be a place of great wear and tear. It is full of noise ...read more

58.) Return from Backsliding
      If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. (Job 22:23) Eliphaz, in this utterance, spoke a great truth, which is the summary of many an inspired Scripture. Reader, has sin pulled you down? Have you become like a ruin? Has the hand of th ...read more

59.) Joyful Security
      I quill uphold thee with de right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10) Fear of falling is wholesome. To be venturesome is no sign of wisdom. Times come to us when we feel that we must go down unless we have a very special support. Here we have i ...read more