Sermons & Devotionals by Classic Christian Writings

"And I set my face unto the Lord God" (Daniel 9:3). Daniel wrote the above during the Babylonian captivity. When he and his people went into captivity he was 17 years old and neither he nor any of the Jews knew how long the captivity was to last. However, when Daniel saw the shift of power from Bels... Read More

Conclusion of a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival" Conference near Asheville, North Carolina, May 23-27. The most powerful portion on repentance in the whole Bible is Second Corinthians, chapter 7. Paul is writing to the Corinthians a second letter, and he is referring here to a letter... Read More

Continuation of a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival" Conference near Asheville, North Carolina, May 23-27. Some of you pastors know you have people in your church who have never repented. Use the following God-given motives for repentance to move them from where they are to where they ... Read More

Edited from a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival" Conference near Asheville, North Carolina, May 23-27, 2000. Sometimes I’m asked the question, "Why do you preach about revival, and teach about revival, and pray about revival, and write about revival, and talk about revival, and dream a... Read More

Edited from a message delivered at Calvary Baptist Church, Brazil, Indiana, November 16, 2003. Our text for this message is Hosea 10:12: "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you." We... Read More

The Bible speaks of sins of ignorance. So there are sins which we commit of which we are not conscious. In one of the Psalms there is a prayer to be cleansed of secret or hidden faults: "Who can understand his errors? Cleanse Thou me from secret faults" (Psalm 19:12). There are faults, unlovely thin... Read More

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (Luke 21:36). According to this passage there is only one way in which we can be prepared for the coming of the Lord when He appears, that is,... Read More

In the past century there were widespread and deep movings of the Holy Spirit in Scotland associated with the ministry of the godly and gifted young pastor, Robert Murray McCheyne. The Memoirs of McCheyne, which includes his letters and messages, was compiled and edited by a contemporary, Dr. Andrew... Read More

I once received a letter from one of the most devoted young officers I know, in which he said, “I love holiness more and more, but I am just about discouraged. It seems to me that I shall never be able to teach holiness, for it seems that I get things too straight, or not straight enough.” God bless... Read More

“The inwrought fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16, R.V.). All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet. Before Jesus began His ministry, when grea... Read More

"Son, go work today in my vineyard" (Matthew 21:28). "And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled" (Luke 14:23). It seems to me that no one can study the New Testament without arriving at the conclusion that it is a... Read More

Opportunities for service are to be found in every sphere, and mine was no exception. I shall only mention one case now that gave me great encouragement in seeking conversion even when it seemed apparently hopeless. God had given me the joy of winning souls before, but not in surroundings of such sp... Read More

"Speak the truth in love" is the scriptural injunction (Ephesians 4:15). As easy as it seems we often see how difficult it is to obtain this balance. We so often become censorious or compromising. Some "contend for the faith" as they call it, quoting Jude 3, with bared fangs and upraised paws. The C... Read More

Paul says, "Our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." The true ministry is God-touched, God-enabled, and God-made. The Spirit of God is on the Spirit-filled preacher... Read More

The second coming of Christ and the end of the age are not subjects for idle curiosity. The hope of Christ’s return is no escapist clause. It’s not an out for Christian complacency, not an alibi for noninvolvement. To the contrary, it’s a spur to holiness, to evangelism and to obedience. It’s a moti... Read More

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers," shines as a bright luminary in the sky of Church History. Certainly the word revival must come to mind as we consider such a life and labor owned by God with such phenomenal success. Without doubt his success was the fruit of revival, and his doctr... Read More

The main body of our Lord’s teaching, and the clearest of all His instructions on practical living, are embodied for ever in the "Sermon on the Mount" (Matthew, chapters 5-7; Luke, chapter 6). And His whole revelation in the sermon is based on a studied contrast of the Church’s grace with Israel’s l... Read More

The prayer of Daniel which appears in the ninth chapter of the Book is one of the most precious segments of Holy Writ. It is simply loaded with jewel upon jewel of truth for the believer. O, the richness and the depth and the great value and the tremendous benefit for us as saints to examine careful... Read More

Stewardship is not an appealing topic to many. We trust that if you are one of the “many,” you will not cast this issue aside. Rethinking your stewardship can add joy and peace and reward to your Christian life. To be reminded and to accept the fact that all that we are and all that we have, have co... Read More

“We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” (1 Tim. 6:7). Says missionary Elwyn Davies: “In spite of the old saying, no one is really born with a silver spoon in his mouth. People are just born. The children of the wealthy and of the poor are just born. However m... Read More