Dan Greenfield

  • Travailing in Birth for Souls

    What contradictions meet In ministers’ employ! It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy: No other post affords a place For equal honor, or disgrace! Who can describe the pain Which faithful preachers feel; Constrained to speak, in vain, To hearts as hard as steel? Or who can tell the pleasures felt, When Read more

  • Proverb #1

    An overemphasis on one thing is rarely a good thing. Read more

  • The Missionary’s Motto

    The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be ‘Devoted for life.’ –Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma (1788-1850), quoted in To the Golden Shore, p. 409. Read more

  • A Prayer for Power on the Means of Grace

    O Thou, at whose almighty word The glorious light from darkness sprung! Thy quick’ning influence afford, And clothe with pow’r the preacher’s tongue. Though ’tis thy truth he hopes to speak, He cannot give the hearing ear: ‘Tis thine, the stubborn heart to break, And make the careless sinner fear. Thus we would in the Read more

  • Prayer for Revival

    Let our mutual love be fervent, Make us prevalent in pray’rs; Let each one esteem’d thy servant Shun the world’s bewitching snares; Break the tempter’s fatal power, Turn the stony heart to flesh; And begin, from this good hour, To revive thy work afresh. —Olney Hymns, p. 150, no. 51 Read more

  • Psalm 27

    1 The Lord’s my light and saving health, who shall make me dismay’d? My life’s strength is the Lord, of whom then shall I be afraid? … 7 O Lord, give ear unto my voice, when I do cry to thee; Upon me also mercy have, and do thou answer me. 8When  thou didst say, Read more

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