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Thomas Chalmers: Preaching with Courage and Power

"On Friday, June 4, 1847, one of the most amazing funeral processions ever seen in Edinburgh made its way to the Grange Cemetery. Well nigh half the population of the city lined the route. It was the dust of a ... Continue Reading...

Advent: This Child Was Different (Hebrews 1:1-2)

In Jesus, God has invaded humanity and things can never be the same again. God who had formerly spoken through the prophets has spoken to the world a final word in His Son. How different is that Word from any uttered before or since. This Christmas sermon lays out the ways that Jesus revealed God in a different and ultimate way.

John Henry Newman: Pursuit of truth in preaching

This year we celebrate the centenary of John Henry Newman's death. The new ecumenical interest in Newman has centered largely in his parochial preaching in sermons he first gave as an Anglican and reissued as a... Continue Reading...

Clarence E. Macartney: Evangelize or Perish

Clarence E. Macartney was born at Northwood, Ohio in 1879. He studied at Pomona College, the University of Wisconsin and Princeton Seminary. He was pastor of these downtown churches: the First Presbyterian Chur... Continue Reading...

Ralph W. Sockman: 20th Century Circuit Rider

For forty-four years Ralph Washington Sockman stood as a towering pulpit beacon in the city of New York, serving as senior pastor of Christ Church Methodist on Park Avenue.At the time of his retirement in 1961,... Continue Reading...

W. L. Watkinson: The Touch of Reality

It is a great pity that no biography of W. L. Watkinson has been published. All we have in addition to his sermons is a slight but precious volume Letters of Two Friends, a record of correspondence between Watk... Continue Reading...

George Herbert Morrison: Preaching with Clarity and Conviction

George Herbert Morrison was the son of a minister, born in Glasgow October 2, 1866. His mother had been reading George Herbert, the 17th century devotional poet, before his birth, hence the Christian names give... Continue Reading...

Robert William Dale Interpreter of evangelical truth

R. W. Dale was born in London and attended with his parents Moorfields Tabernacle which had once echoed to the ringing voice of George Whitfield.He became a school teacher at the early age of 14. It was at that... Continue Reading...

W. M. Macgregor: Preaching to make God visible

William Malcolm Macgregor was born at Glasgow in 1861, and served churches at Troon, Renfield, Glasgow, and St. Andrew's, Edinburgh. He was appointed Professor of the New Testament in Trinity College, Glasgow i... Continue Reading...

J. D. Jones: ‘Man with the Mouth of Gold’

Wherever the names of the princes of the modern pulpit are mentioned, "Jones of Bournemouth" is sure to be one of them. For almost half a century this "man with the mouth of gold" delighted the people of Britai... Continue Reading...