Whitefield’s “Sermons”
A quick note: Lee Gatiss has edited George Whitefield’s Sermons in two volumes for Crossway. The two hardbound volumes are available from Amazon for £37.79 at the moment, but the…
Jeremy Walker
The clown in the pulpit
The Scottish preacher and theologian Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon on “The necessity of the Spirit to give effect to the preaching of gospel,” declared: How little must the presence…
Worrying news from West London
Troubling reports are filtering through from the United Kingdom’s capital. Apparently, there are concerns about a group of children, approximately seventy in number, suffering from a so far unexplained trauma.…
The Great God Entertainment
A few days ago I was at the home of a mentor. I happened to be in a chair which I suspect he may use for some of his reading.…
The humility and jealousy of the Holy Spirit
I remember hearing the story: a gathering of ministers in a place that had known God’s blessing in an unusual degree in time past, grieving over the present low state…
“Grace abounding! Oh the sweetness”
8 7. 8 7 (Sussex) Grace abounding! Oh the sweetnessOf those words to sinful hearts.Trace the stream of heavenly mercyThat on darkened Calvary starts. Kings dispensing earthly splendoursCannot match our…
A Puritan preacher remembered
Dr William Bates preached the funeral sermon of Thomas Manton. When we read how he described his departed friend, we understand why it is reported that Bates would weep whenever…
Why?
“Why was I made to hear Thy voice, And enter while there’s room,When thousands make a wretched choice,And rather starve than come?” So asked William Cowper. And so might each…
A closing plea
How would you close a sermon? How would you bring to an end a sermon in which you were pleading for sinners to receive God’s great pardon for sin? Here…
Back to the world of dreams
I return from a welcome holiday (during which the growing murmur of delight at the prospect that I might have been banished, or for some other reason no longer be…