luke-12:35,-matthew-25:1-7-niv

I invite you again, this morning, to open your Bible, if you will, to the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew. We are again this week going back to what is becoming for us a familiar text, this great sermon of our Lord Jesus Christ on His own Second Coming that occupies chapter 24 and 25 of Matthew's g... Read More

HOW TO DEAL WITH CHRISTIANS WHO NEED COUNSEL, REBUKE, ENCOURAGEMENT, OR COMFORT. It is often necessary to do personal work with those who are really Christians, but whose Christian experience for one cause or another is unsatisfactory. I. CHRISTIANS WHO ARE NEGLECTING THE OPEN CONFESSION OF CHRIST. ... Read More

TOPICAL SERMONS IN OUTLINE # THE BIBLE: WHEREIN IT DIFFERS FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS INTRODUCTION. -- The Bible stands absolutely alone. It is an entirely unique book. It is not a book, it is THE Book. Wherein the Bible differs from all other books: I. In its Depth. The Bible is the unfathomable and inex... Read More

Part Second. Directions for managing this War successfully, with some Motives sprinkled among them. Direction First. The Christian must be armed, and the Reason why. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Eph. 6:11). This verse is a key to the f... Read More

Directions for Governing the Appetite Or, Directions against Gluttony Richard Baxter, 1615-1691 The most that is necessary to be said to acquaint you with the nature and evil of this sin, is said before in my chapter, The Sinfulness of Flesh-Pleasing . But something more particularly must be said: 1... Read More

Thoughts on the Christian Life; or, Leaves from Letters Hetty Bowman, 1872 INTRODUCTORY NOTE Under the touching circumstances of the early and lamented death of her who wrote this volume, I cannot refuse a request made to me, that I should write a few prefatory lines. The name of "Hetty Bowman" is n... Read More

Is There a Hell? Archibald G. Brown, September 12, 1869, Stepney Green Tabernacle, London "What shall the end be of those who do no obey the gospel of God?" 1 Peter 4:17 I am free to confess, dear friends, that I never came upon this platform with a greater sense of responsibility weighing upon me t... Read More

Preparedness for the Lord's Coming George Everard, 1868 "And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming." 1 John 2:28 It is the part of true wisdom to look ahead, and, as far as possible, to prepare for that whi... Read More

Waiting and Watching! William Bacon Stevens "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks--they can immediately open the door for him." Luke 12:35-36 "What good is it, my brothers, if a ... Read More