Sermons and Biblical Studies

Brethren, we have been born of God and our Christian hope is a valid hope! No emptess, no vanity, no dreams that cannot come true. Your expectation should rise and you should challenge God and begin to dream high dreams of faith and spiritual attainment and expect God to meet them. You cannot out-hope God … Continue reading “HOPE;
HEAVEN: CERTAINTY OF; DEATH: NO FEAR OF”

The Christian church cannot effectively be Christ’s church if it fails to firmly believe and boldly proclaim to every person: “You can be changed! You do not have to remain as you are!” This is a hope held out not just to the desperate drug addict and the helpless drunkard; it is valid for every … Continue reading “HOPE;
CHANGE”

Do you know that one of the things that marked the lives of the original Quakers was their honest handling of the truth? They would not lie and they would not stretch the truth. They would not steal and they would not use flattering words. Someone in history wrote about the lives of the Quakers … Continue reading “HONESTY;
VALUES; CHARACTER; QUAKERS”

It is vitally important that our homes be preserved. A nation is only as strong as its homes. No government can substitute for the ministrations of the family. Federal agencies cannot love and cuddle the baby, not kiss his bruised knee or hear his prayer at the close of the day. Fathers and mothers make … Continue reading “HOME;
FAMILY”

While it is scarcely within the scope of the present piece, I cannot refrain from remarking that the most ominous sign of the coming destruction of our country is the passing of the American home. Americans live no longer in homes, but in theaters. The members of many families hardly know each other, and the … Continue reading “HOME;
ENTERTAINMENT; AMERICA: GREATNESS”

Much of the religious activity we see in our churches is not the eternal working of the Eternal Spirit but the mortal working of man’s mortal mind. That is raw tragedy! From what I see and sense in evangelical circles, I would have to say that about 90 percent of the religious work carried on … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; HOLY SPIRIT: NEED FOR; CHURCH: HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK”

The important thing is that the Holy Spirit desires to take us and control us and use us as instruments and organs through whom He can express Himself in the body of Christ. Perhaps I can use my hands as a further illustration of this truth. My hands are about average, I suppose—perhaps a little … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; HOLY SPIRIT: NEED FOR”

This is a crude illustration, but let me tell you what we did after planting a field of corn when I was a young fellow in Pennsylvania. To save the field of corn from the crows, we would shoot an old crow and hang him by his heels in the middle of the field. This … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; FANATICS; EXTREMES”

For a generation certain evangelical teachers have told us that the gifts of the Spirit ceased at the death of the apostles or at the completion of the New Testament.… The result of this erroneous teaching is that spiritually gifted persons are ominously few among us. When we so desperately need leaders with the gift … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; CHURCH: HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK; CHURCH: SPIRITUAL
CONDITION”

The clear, emphatic teaching of the great apostle is that Christ is the Head of the Church which is His body.… As a normal man consists of a body with various obedient members with a head to direct them, so the true Church is a body, individual Christians being the members and Christ the Head. … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS; BODY OF CHRIST; CHURCH: HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK”