| Sermon | Atonement Through the Blood of Jesus
"For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" - Paul argued in his letter to the Hebrews "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God." ...read |
| Sermon | Backsliding
"Thy own wickedness shall correct thee. Thy backsliding shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts." Jeremiah 11:19.
Many start the voyage of the Christian life under sending skies and upon smooth waters, but ...read |
| Pamphlet | Billy Sunday Funeral
The exact text of the booklet, ""Billy" Sunday Funeral", put out by the Moody Bible Church of Chicago (Loizeaux Brothers, publishers) in 1939. Comments added by the BGC Archives are in brackets. Billy Sunday died November 5, 1935, thirteen days before his seventy-second birthday. The service at Moody Church was held on November 9.
PREFATORY NO ...read |
| Pamphlet | Brochure Given to People Who Committed Their Lives To Christ at Billy Sunday Meetings
ca. 1910-1935
Dear Friend:
You have by this act of coming forward publicly acknowledged your faith in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. No one could possibly be more rejoiced that you have done this, or be more anxious for you to succeed and get the most joy out of the Christian life, than I. Therefore, I ask you to read carefully this ...read |
| Sermon | Broken Down Altars
"He repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down."-- I Kings 18:30
There is something more than history in the chapter from which my text is taken, just as there is always more in a picture than is seen at first glance.
The state of affairs at this time the chapter opens was as bad as is possible for the human mind to conceive. The cou ...read |
| Sermon | Gethsemane
"And being more in agony, He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground" -- Luke 22:24
Infidels have seized upon certain verses of Scripture and have given as reasons for their unbelief that the statement therein contained did not agree with their opinion. One of these verses is the one t ...read |
| Sermon | He That Winneth Souls is Wise
(As preached in Richmond, Indiana, 1922)
"He that winneth souls is wise." -- Proverbs 11:30
There are vast multitudes in this enlightened land of ours who are in open rebellion against God. "We will not have this man, Jesus Christ, to reign over us," is the heartless cry that winds its flight from office, shop, store, factory, home, college ...read |
| Sermon | Motherhood
"Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages" -- Exodus 2:9
THE STORY OF MOSES is one of the most beautiful and fascinating in all the world. It takes a hold on us and never for an instant does it lose its interest, for it is so graphically told that once heard it is never forgotten.
I have often imagined the a ...read |
| Pamphlet | Outline of Plan of Work of the Prayer Meetings Committee
Forward
The success of the entire campaign is largely dependent upon the thoroughness with which the prayer-meeting work is carried out. Mr. Sunday considers this the foundation for results desired for the campaign.
The Organization in a Nutshell
The territory has been divided into twenty districts: Manhattan, fifteen; The Bronx, five; ...read |
| Sermon | Shew Thyself a Man
"Be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man" -- 1 Kings 2:2
No one can read the Bible in a thoughtful way without being impressed with the fact that it makes much of manhood, and holds it up as something that should be sought after with diligence and perseverance.
In fact the Bible exalts and emphasizes manhood in a remarkable way, and ...read |
| Sermon | Spiritual Food for a Hungry World
"They need not depart; give ye them to eat." - Matthew 14:16.
Some folks do not believe in miracles. I do. A denial of miracles is a denial of the virgin birth of Jesus. The Christian religion stands or falls on the virgin birth of Christ. God created Adam and Eve without human agencies. He could and did create Jesus supernaturally. I place no l ...read |
| Pamphlet | Suggestions For Personal Workers
Our Motto
"Every Christian a Personal Worker"
Lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest - John 4:35.
Go out into the highway and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. - Luke 14:23
This pamphlet was originally drawn up by the Personal Work Committee of the Boston Campaign. It ...read |
| Sermon | Teach Us To Pray
We live and develop physically by exercise. We are saved by faith, but we must work out our salvation by doing the things God wills. The more we do for God, the more God will do through us. Faith will increase by experience.
If you are a stranger to prayer you are a stranger to the greatest test source of power known to human beings. If we cared ...read |
| Sermon | The Curse of Liquor - Booze
Here we have one of the strangest scenes in all the Gospels. Two men, possessed of devils, confront Jesus, and while the devils are crying out for Jesus to leave them, he commands the devils to come out, and the devils obey the command of Jesus. The devils ask permission to enter into a herd of swine feeding on the hillside. This is the only record ...read |
| Sermon | The Devil's Boomerangs
"Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment" -- Eccl. 11:9
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" -- Galatians 6:7
You can always get the trut ...read |
| Sermon | The Need For Revivals
Somebody asks: "What is a revival? " Revival is a purely philosophical, common-sense result of the wise use of divinely appointed means, just the same as water will put out a fire; the same as food will appease your hunger; just the same as water will slake your thirst; it is a philosophical common-sense use of divinely appointed means to accomplis ...read |
| Sermon | The Second Coming of Christ
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18).
THE MEETING here mentioned is to be the greatest meeting the Bible tells us anything about. There have been some ...read |
| Sermon | Theater, Cards and Dance
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."--Gal. 6:7.
I know of no more suitable text in all the Bible for the subject that I have in hand. And by the presence of such a vast audience and by the expectant look upon your upturned faces I am sure that you will not expect me to utter one word of def ...read |
| Sermon | Under the Sun
"What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?" -- Eccl. 1:3
THIS question is asked and answered by King Solomon, and in our language it means about this: "What good does a man get out of life if he lives only for what this world can give?"
If any man has ever been able to give the right answer to this great question, ...read |
| Sermon | What Shall I Do Then With Jesus?
"What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?"--Matt. 27:22.
Nineteen hundred years ago a star poised above a lowly manger in Bethlehem and above the moonlit hills of Judaea the angels heralded the beginning of the life of Jesus Christ upon this earth--He who came to teach us the religion of human kindness, brotherly love and salvat ...read |
