Preaching Words

One of the goals of the minister of God is be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear (see 1 Peter 3:15). Our prayer is that this resource material will be a tool that helps you prepare to have an answer of why you believe in hope. “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15

There are lone hearth-fires today, so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. Yes, here's the Bible close by. But there's a heavy mood on that affects one's eyes so. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here, within reach. But somehow we don't realize His presence; it does not seem real. If we would quietly put a foot on the next step up, and then rise up to that foot, we can recognize His presence: it is real. Realizing is blessed, but... rare. It belongs to the mood; to the feelings. It is dependent on weather ...

"Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life; and we believe and are sure [know] that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." S. JOHN vi. 67-69. FEW, simple, earnest, loyal words! Yet they comprise the whole relation of the creature to the Creator, the needs of the creature, the all-sufficingness of the Creator, as revealed in Jesus. Our Lord's discourse had had that sifting character, which Divine truth ever has, when brought in contact with our wills. Two frames of mind there ...