2011-06-27T16:01:34-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/george+whitefield/ http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/eighteenth-century/whitefield/ 2011-06-27T16:01:34-05:00 As George Whitefield blazed across England, Scotland, and America, his dramatic preaching caused excitement bordering on panic. From Christian History magazine http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=19496 2008-01-23T10:47:42-05:00 The name George Whitefield brings some recognition but at that very little. No schools, churches, organizations are named after him. Yet in heaven this man is well known! For he was a humble servant amongst men but a giant with God. By the age of 21 he was the most well known preacher... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=995 2008-01-23T10:27:26-05:00 The occasion of our Lord's giving this caution, was this: Perceiving that much people were gathered together to hear him out of every city, and knowing (for he is God, and knoweth all things) that many, if not most of them, would be hearers only, and not doers of the word; he... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=1017 2008-01-23T10:26:22-05:00 Isaiah, speaking of the glory of gospel days, said, "Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." Chap. 64:4. Could a world lying in the wicked one, be really convinced of this, they... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=1018 2008-01-23T10:25:23-05:00 The doctrines of the gospel are doctrines of peace, and they bring comfort to all who believe in them; they are not like the law given by Moses, which consisted of troublesome and painful ceremonies; neither do they carry with them that terror which the law did; as, "cursed is every one... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=980 2008-01-23T10:23:59-05:00 Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of any man living, fully to conceive... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=994 2008-01-23T10:22:54-05:00 When the apostle Peter was recommending Jesus of Nazareth, in one of his sermons to the Jews, he gave him a short, but withal a glorious and exalted character, "That we went about doing good." He went about, he sought occasions of doing good; it was his meat and drink to do the... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=1023 2008-01-23T10:21:47-05:00 When we consider the persecutions they are exposed to, who live righteously and godly in this present world; it is amazing to consider, that the people of this generation should be so fond of a name to live, while they are in effect dead. The people of God are to expect... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=971 2008-01-23T10:20:36-05:00 The great Apostle Paul, in one of his epistles, informs us, that "whatsoever was written aforetime was written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the holy scripture might have hope." And as without faith it is impossible to please God, or be accepted in Jesus... http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=999 2008-01-23T10:19:29-05:00 When we consider how heinous and aggravating our offenses are, in the sight of a just and holy God, that they bring down his wrath upon our heads, and occasion us to live under his indignation; how ought we thereby to be deterred from evil, or at least engaged to study to repent thereof...