Acts 15:9.
I. Why Does God Purify the Heart by Faith?
1. Man was ruined by believing the Devil, so God has planned that man shall be saved by believing on Christ.
2. Faith gives God the glory for our salvation through Christ. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son," etc.
II. What Is Faith?
1. Faith is a living conviction not only of the divinity of Jesus Christ, but of His efficiency and mission as our Saviour.
2. Such a conviction is not a mere assent to the truth that He died for our sins.
3. It is a trust from the heart in Jesus to now save me, to now lift me out of this horrible pit.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT.
"Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift." — II. Cor. 9:15.
I. It is the best of gifts. The heart naturally yearns for love. "Greater love hath no man than this," etc. "Herein is love, not that we loved God," etc. "God so loved the world," etc.
II. Because it includes other gifts. Have you Christ? If you trust and serve Him you have the guarantee of all.
III. Because it improves other gifts. The presence of one possession may add to the worth of all else. Examine, sight. Thus it is with the gift Christ. And we all seem better for it. It improves everything.
1. We value nature more.
2. We value human nature more.
3. We value the Bible more.
IV. Because it makes us givers. When we receive it we become like it.
V. Because it is a gift to all. "To all people."
1. A gift, not a loan.
2. A gift, not a purchase.
"'Tis only God that is given away, 'Tis only Heaven may be had for the asking!"
3. How shall we express our "thanks?"
(a) By giving this gift to others.
(b) By giving ourselves to the Giver. - Rev. Thomas R. Stevenson.
I. It is the best of gifts. The heart naturally yearns for love. "Greater love hath no man than this," etc. "Herein is love, not that we loved God," etc. "God so loved the world," etc.
II. Because it includes other gifts. Have you Christ? If you trust and serve Him you have the guarantee of all.
III. Because it improves other gifts. The presence of one possession may add to the worth of all else. Examine, sight. Thus it is with the gift Christ. And we all seem better for it. It improves everything.
1. We value nature more.
2. We value human nature more.
3. We value the Bible more.
IV. Because it makes us givers. When we receive it we become like it.
V. Because it is a gift to all. "To all people."
1. A gift, not a loan.
2. A gift, not a purchase.
"'Tis only God that is given away, 'Tis only Heaven may be had for the asking!"
3. How shall we express our "thanks?"
(a) By giving this gift to others.
(b) By giving ourselves to the Giver. - Rev. Thomas R. Stevenson.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Three Requisites of an Orator
1902
By Henry M. Dowling
Three great requisites are demanded of everyone who would speak well. He must be clear, he must be forceful, and he must please. Clearness will be secured by translation and composition. How can we speak forcibly and in a manner to excite pleasure? Anyone may avoid egregious blunders; it is the able orator who makes his speech sinewy in its strength, charming in its beauty.
"Bold propositions, boldly and briefly expressed — pithy sentences, nervous common sense, strong phrases, well-compacted periods, sudden and strong masses of light, an apt adage, a keen sarcasm, a merciless personality, a mortal thrust — these are the beauties and deformities that now make a speaker most interesting." Nothing is more artificial than the adornments in a spoken discourse. They do not necessarily arise from the peculiar attractiveness of the subject. Erskine could throw a charm about the most repulsive causes; and there may be speakers who, without strenuous effort, could render sterile and disgusting a subject boundless in suggestiveness and luxuriant in beauty.
In all your compositions, oral and written, first outline the general plan of your matter, and then select portions to be embellished by chaste adornment, not in the spirit of the pulpit orator who annotated his sermon manuscript with stage directions such as, "Here weep!" but with a rational sense of the places where ornament may appropriately be inserted, to clarify the thought, vitalize the argument, or arouse new interest on the part of an audience. At one point, you will decide to use a bit of vivid description of men or scenes; at another, you will mark, as a proper place to thrust forward a pungent antithesis, a picturesque metaphor; at another, you will select, as affording an opportunity, a supposed speech of your adversary or of a third person, or pretend to read from an imaginary document; at a fourth, you will see to it that you express indignation and apologies to the audience for being overborne by your feelings. — Success.
By Henry M. Dowling
Three great requisites are demanded of everyone who would speak well. He must be clear, he must be forceful, and he must please. Clearness will be secured by translation and composition. How can we speak forcibly and in a manner to excite pleasure? Anyone may avoid egregious blunders; it is the able orator who makes his speech sinewy in its strength, charming in its beauty.
"Bold propositions, boldly and briefly expressed — pithy sentences, nervous common sense, strong phrases, well-compacted periods, sudden and strong masses of light, an apt adage, a keen sarcasm, a merciless personality, a mortal thrust — these are the beauties and deformities that now make a speaker most interesting." Nothing is more artificial than the adornments in a spoken discourse. They do not necessarily arise from the peculiar attractiveness of the subject. Erskine could throw a charm about the most repulsive causes; and there may be speakers who, without strenuous effort, could render sterile and disgusting a subject boundless in suggestiveness and luxuriant in beauty.
In all your compositions, oral and written, first outline the general plan of your matter, and then select portions to be embellished by chaste adornment, not in the spirit of the pulpit orator who annotated his sermon manuscript with stage directions such as, "Here weep!" but with a rational sense of the places where ornament may appropriately be inserted, to clarify the thought, vitalize the argument, or arouse new interest on the part of an audience. At one point, you will decide to use a bit of vivid description of men or scenes; at another, you will mark, as a proper place to thrust forward a pungent antithesis, a picturesque metaphor; at another, you will select, as affording an opportunity, a supposed speech of your adversary or of a third person, or pretend to read from an imaginary document; at a fourth, you will see to it that you express indignation and apologies to the audience for being overborne by your feelings. — Success.
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