The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.
Oswald J Smith
The God of Abraham Praise
The Gifts of Christ
I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God’s gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower.
F. B. Meyer
Prayer, an Evidence of God’s Presence (or Absence)
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
Joy versus Happiness
Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can’t see and doesn’t know anything about.
Is Your Preaching Just Clever?
A word to preachers:
“You cannot at the same time show that Christ is wonderful — and you are clever.”
Covenant Prayer
The Church’s Business
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.
God Doesn’t Despise Small Things
Know that God despiseth not small things. He takes notice of the least breathings of our hearts after him when we ourselves can see nor perceive no such thing. He knows the mind of the Spirit in those workings which are never formed to that height that we can reflect upon them with our observation. Everything that is of him is noted in his book, though not in our ours . . . even whilst his people are sinning, he can find something in their hearts, words or ways, that pleaseth him; much more in their duties. He is a skillful refiner, that can find much gold in that ore where we see nothing but lead or clay. He remembers the duties which we forget, and forgets the sins which we remember.
Hot Water Draws the Tea out of the Bag; It Doesn’t Put the Tea in the Bag
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
HT: @revdaveharvey
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