Sermons and Biblical Studies

The Church in America suffered a greater loss than she has since discovered when she rejected the example of good men and chose for her pattern the celebrity of the hour. 1 Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:7; 3 John 9 The Set of the Sail, 17.

So it is today in the church of Jesus Christ. There are still disagreements among the people of God. There were in Paul’s day, and there are now. There are many imperfections among us. There are existing conditions that ought not to be there—but they are. On the sea that night long ago, the disciples … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INVINCIBILITY; TRIALS: STORMS; SECOND COMING: HOPE FOR”

Let me say that those who would come forward to bury the faith of our fathers have reckoned without the host. Just as Jesus Christ was once buried away with the full expectation that He had been gotten rid of, so His church has been laid to rest times without number; and as He disconcerted … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INVINCIBILITY”

A great deal can be learned about people by observing whom and what they imitate. The weak, for instance, imitate the strong; never the reverse. The poor imitate the rich. The self-assured are imitated by the timid and uncertain, the genuine is imitated by the counterfeit, and people all tend to imitate what they admire. … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INEFFECTIVENESS; WORLD: IMITATION OF; CELEBRITIES”

Did you know that the often-quoted Jean-Paul Sartre describes his turning to philosophy and hopelessness as a turning away from a secularistic church? He says, “I did not recognize in the fashionable God who was taught me, Him who was waiting for my soul. I needed a Creator; I was given a big businessman!” None … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INEFFECTIVENESS; SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL”

Unquestionably there is not another institution in the world that talks as much and does as little as the church. Any factory that required as much raw material for so small a finished product would go bankrupt in six months. I have often thought that if one-tenth of one per cent of the prayers made … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INEFFECTIVENESS; PRAYER: UNANSWERED; HYPOCRISY”

Dispositional sins are fully as injurious to the Christian cause as the more overt acts of wickedness. These sins are as many as the various facets of human nature. Just so there may be no misunderstanding let us list a few of them: sensitiveness, irritability, churlishness, faultfinding, peevishness, temper, resentfulness, cruelty, uncharitable attitudes; and of … Continue reading “CHURCH:
INEFFECTIVENESS; CHURCH: SPIRITUAL CONDITION; SIN: CONSEQUENCES OF”

I find three basic requirements God makes of the body of Christ if it is to do His final work—His eternal work. First, Christian believers and Christian congregations must be thoroughly consecrated to Christ’s glory alone. This means absolutely turning their backs on the contemporary insistence on human glory and recognition. I have done everything … Continue reading “CHURCH:
HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK; SERVANTHOOD; CELEBRITIES”

I find three basic requirements God makes of the body of Christ if it is to do His final work—His eternal work.… A second important requirement if the believing church is to be used in God’s ministry is prayer and the response God makes to our prayers uttered in true faith.… No matter what our … Continue reading “CHURCH:
HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK; PRAYER: NECESSITY OF”

I find three basic requirements God makes of the body of Christ if it is to do His final work—His eternal work.… Actually, it will be such prayer and the meeting of God’s conditions that bring us to the third requirement if God is to fulfill His ordained accomplishments through the church. I speak of … Continue reading “CHURCH:
HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK; HOLY SPIRIT: SPIRITUAL GIFTS”