The Good News of God

SERMON PAGE I. THE BEATIFIC VISION 1 II. THE GLORY OF THE CROSS 10 III. THE LIFE OF GOD 16 IV. THE SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN 26 V. THE ETERNAL GOODNESS 34 VI. WORSHIP 43 VII. G...

So on the cross, the Father justified himself to man; yea, glorified himself in the glory of his crucified Son. On the cross God proved himself to be perfectly just, perfectly g...

Yes, my friends, in this sense (and this is the true sense) all things can serve and praise God, and all things do serve and praise Him. Not a cloud which fleets across the sky,...

If God be again, as some fancy, cold, and hard of hearing, then you must worship him accordingly. You must cry aloud as Baal’s priests did to catch his notice, and put yourselve...

Not to himself, his own learning, talents, wealth, prudence, to pull him out of that pit. Not to princes, nobles, and great men. Not to doctrines, books, church-goings. Not to t...

But all in love, my friends; and all for the man’s good. Does God _like_ to punish his creatures? _like_ to torment them? Some think that he does, and say that he finds what the...

This may seem too simple to talk of. But if it be, why do not people act upon it? If a man finds that in his way through life he is on the wrong road, the road which leads to sh...

Oh! when will people understand that—that God has not made laws out of any arbitrariness, but for our good?—That his commandments are _Life_? David of old knew as much as that....

In the hour of death, and in the day of judgment; then the one thing which you will care to think of (if you can think at all then, as too many poor souls cannot, and therefore...

Go home, then, remembering how divine and holy a thing music is, and rejoice before the Lord this day with psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs (by which last I think the apost...

What, then, does Joel say about the locusts, which he might say to you or me, if we were laid down by cholera or fever? He does not say, these troubles have come upon you from d...

ON this Sunday the Church bids us to begin to read the book of Genesis, and hear how the world was made, and how man was made, and what the world is, and who man is.

Next the thunder—what more awful and terrible, and yet so full of good, than the summer heat and the thunder cloud? So they fancied that the thunder was a god, and called him Th...

‘I know my sheep.’ Surely some of the words which I have just spoken may help to explain that to you. ‘I know my sheep.’ Not merely, I know who are my sheep, and who are not. Of...

‘God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good.’ And God made you and me. Are we therefore very good? Or were we ever very good? Here is a great mystery. It w...

Therefore be not anxious about the morrow. Do to-day’s duty, fight to-day’s temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see...

And therefore it is a very good and beautiful old custom to bow when the name of Jesus is mentioned; at least, when it is mentioned for the first time, or under any very solemn...

Let us do this. Let us open our eyes, and see honestly what a wonderful world we live in; and go about all our days in wonder and humbleness of heart, confessing that we know no...

And, therefore, all _charity_ is rightly called _Christian_ charity; for it is Christ, and the news of Good Friday, which first taught men to have charity; to look on the poor,...

There is his plan. It is a very simple one. It goes on the same principle as ‘He that saveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall save it.’ If we are selfis...