Dan Greenfield

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… Fields plowed and sown, yet yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, yet all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea, and spread wide, yet no fishes enclosed! All this for years—for a lifetime! How strange! Yet it is true. There is neither Read more

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… To deliver sermons on each returning Lord’s Day, to administer the Lord’s Supper statedly, to pay an occasional visit to those who request it, to attend religious meetings—this, we fear, sums up the ministerial life of multitudes who are, by profession, overseers of the flock of Read more

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… “The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity” (Malachi 2:6). Let us observe the connection here declared to subsist between faithfulness and success Read more

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… The biographer of the Rev. W.H. Hewitson begins his memoir thus: “‘To restore a commonplace truth,’ writes Mr. Coleridge, ‘to its first uncommon luster, you need only translate it into action.’ Walking with God is a very commonplace truth. Translate this truth into action—how lustrous it Read more

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… The true minister must be a true Christian. He must be called by God before he can call others to God. The Apostle Paul thus states the matter: “God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.” Read more

Continuing Horatius Bonar’s Words to Winners of Souls (see here for book information)… Let us, then, meet this “earnestness,” which is now the boast, but may ere long be the bane, of the age, with that which alone can bring down its feverish pulse, and soothe it into blessed calm, “the gospel of the grace of God.” All other Read more