2011-06-27T16:24:06-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/charles+finney/ http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/nineteenth-century/finney/ 2011-06-27T16:24:06-05:00 Like him or loath him, no one can deny Finney’s influence on revival thinking. From Christian History magazine. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=654 2008-01-09T13:39:11-05:00 THE connection of this passage will help us to understand its meaning. Near the close of the previous chapter Paul had said, "The law entered that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righ http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=561 2008-01-09T13:06:57-05:00 IT will be recollected by some who are present, that some time since I made use of this text in preaching in this place, but the object of this evening's discourse is so far different that it is not improper to employ the same text again. The following is the order in which I... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=641 2008-01-09T13:05:56-05:00 The circumstances which gave occasion to the words of the text were briefly these. Paul and Silas had gone to Philippi to preach the Gospel. Their preaching excited great opposition and tumult; they were arrested and thrown into prison, and the jailer was charged to keep them safely... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=3755 2008-01-09T13:05:09-05:00 This passage has been greatly misunderstood, or else the Apostle has contradicted himself. Leaving out of view the 16th verse, and that the design of the 17th is to assign the grounds of the assertion in the 16th, many of the expounders of the Scriptures have understood the 17th to declare... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=3754 2008-01-09T13:04:11-05:00 It is nothing infused into either soul or body. Some talk as if they supposed the whole being, soul and body to be saturated with sin, than which, nothing can be more absurd... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=648 2008-01-09T13:01:46-05:00 An advocate may be employed to secure a pardon, when a criminal has been justly condemned, and is under sentence. That is, an advocate may be employed either to secure justice for his client, or to obtain mercy for him, in case he is condemned; may be employed either to prevent his... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=3716 2008-01-09T13:00:33-05:00 In the holy Scriptures, we often find a negative thrown into the form of an interrogation. The text is an instance of this kind; so that we are to understand the prophet as affirming that two cannot walk together except they be agreed. http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=579 2008-01-09T12:41:02-05:00 The Jews were a nation of farmers, and it is therefore a common thing in the scriptures to refer for Illustrations to their occupation, and to the scenes with which farmers and shepherds are familiar. The prophet Hosea addresses them as a nation of backsliders; he reproves them for their idolatry, a http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=564 2008-01-09T12:40:05-05:00 It requires that we should understand our own hearts, that we should take the proper steps to make proof of our real characters, as they appear in the sight of God. It refers not to a trial or proof of our strength, or knowledge, but our moral character, that we should thoroughly test it, so as to u