Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Blogging
1. Win Where You Are “Did you ever notice,” asked an old lady, as she smiled into the troubled face before her, “that when the Lord told the discouraged fishermen to cast their nets again, it was right in that same old place where they had been working all night and had caught nothing? If [...]
1. Wise Investment Baylor University is a thriving institution in Texas. The Christian who gave the money for building that school later lost all his property. Men of the world asked him, “Don’t you wish you had the money back that you put into that school?” He replied, “Not at all. It is all that [...]
1. Prisoner Recognizes Sin One day, after a gospel meeting in a prison in Greece, the chief of chaplains of the prisons was discussing with the preacher the wonderful response by the prisoners of Greece to the message of the Gospel: “When you deal with a prisoner, you do not need to persuade him that [...]
1. The Well of Kindness In ancient times in the East, a common practice among tribes at war was to fill each other’s wells. Every well thus rendered useless was a public blessing destroyed. It is like a crime against humanity when a well of kindness in a heart is stopped. The world’s need and [...]
1. See the Wonders of God A preacher wrote: “Last summer I stood looking over a Highland river valley lit with a beautiful sunset, and I marveled at the work of God in nature. I turned to a farmer friend and said, ‘What a privilege it is for you to live amid such beauty!’ He [...]
1. In His Presence La Fontaine, chaplain of a Prussian regiment, preached a plain sermon on the sin of a hasty temper. The next day the major, a very passionate man, told him he had used his official liberty rather too freely. La Fontaine admitted that he had thought of him, but had no intention [...]
1. Ruined by Selfishness A farmer inherited a rice field. The first year, the water covered his land so well that he had an abundant harvest. In fact, it even overflowed into his neighbor’s field, making it fertile also. But he began to fret because his neighbor’s field became as productive as his own. He [...]
1. Simpson’s Folly Many years ago a man named Simpson built a house on the Canford Cliffs, near Bournemouth, England. Friends and neighbors tried to warn him he had chosen a site too near the edge of the cliff, that landslides frequently occurred along the coast, and the very weight of the house would precipitate [...]
1. Longing for His Appearance At one time the recording engineer of the author’s radio broadcasts, a very dear saint of God, was almost completely blind. Whenever I visited him and prayed with him, he always wanted to hold my hand as I prayed. He told me that did something to him. Physical contact meant [...]
1. The “Orphan” A young man, under the influence of drink, stood on the outside of a crowd and boasted that he would make the open-air preacher stop preaching. He shouted: “Hi, Mister, you can go home; you don’t need to preach any more-the devil’s dead!” The preacher looked at the young man sternly and [...]
1. Light Reveals A young woman asked me to tell her in a few words how she could know if she was really a Christian. I said: “If you are a Christian you are not afraid of the light because you live in it. You no longer run after sin, though it may run after [...]
1. You Must Believe A young nurse was helping to care for a sick, Christian gentleman whom she loved very much. He said to her, “Ellen, it is time I should take my medicine. Measure just a tablespoon and put it in a glass.” She quickly did so and brought it to his bedside. He [...]
1. Let Him In One day the great artist, Michelangelo , stood outside a window. Inside he saw a canvas with a few brushes and paints next to it. All that was missing was the hand of the artist. “Oh,” cried Michelangelo, “if I could only be inside, what a picture I could paint!” That’s [...]
1. Found by the Savior A young man who presented himself as a candidate for baptism was asked by one of the deacons when he had found Christ as his Savior. “I didn’t find Him; He found me,” was the reply. That’s absolutely correct. God is constantly seeking the wandering sinner, confronting him with the [...]
1. Salvation Assurance Nothing disqualifies us for doing God’s work more than a doubt as to our salvation. Mr. Moody used to illustrate this by saying: “If I were in the river, and I didn’t have a firm grip on something, I couldn’t help anybody. I’ve got to get a good hold for myself before [...]
