The Moody Church, as a corporate body, was first known as the Illinois Street Church, organized in 1864 with twelve charter members. The Moody Memorial Church [building], dedicated November 8, 1925, is the outgrowth of this effort.
This massive red brick structure, costing approximately a million dollars, is located at the corner of Clark Street and North Avenue, facing Lincoln Park. Breathing simplicity and power in every line, it is an appropriate memorial to the founder whose life work included also the establishment of Northfield Seminary in 1879, the Chicago Bible Institute …
“Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants”—Philippians 2:25
There are folk whose names appear only once or perhaps at the most twice in Scripture, yet whose character is just full of inspiration and comfort and help. Epaphroditus is one of these, and we might easily overlook him and forget about him altogether, because apart from the mention of his name in our text and in the 18th verse of the 4th chapter of this very letter, we don’t hear …
Sermon delivered at The Moody Church by Herbert MacKenzie, D.D. President, Erieside Bible Conference.
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.”—Revelation 3:20
Do not think these words suggest to us that the Lord Jesus is standing outside one of the doors of this great Church and knocking, trying to get into this building, waiting for some person to go to the door and open it to let Him in. Don’t imagine for one …
Message by Paul Rader during the annual missionary rally, Friday evening, June 1, 1917.
Don’t you remember concerning the disciples in the tempest on the sea, that it was just when the storm had beaten the hardest that Christ came with help; that when the waves tossed the highest He was there to calm them; that when the watch was the loneliest He came to comfort; that when the disciples were at their wits end Jesus came with a way out?
It was in the hardest hour then, the crisis time, when they were greatly discouraged, that they saw Jesus …
Shortly before the Lord took Mrs. Ironside home to be with Himself the following letter was handed to the elders:
“I feel that in God’s providence and, I trust, His direct leading, the time has come when I should submit my resignation as Pastor of The Moody Church. I came to you nearly eighteen and a half years ago and I can say without any mental reservation that my association with you and the Church has been the happiest period in all my more than fifty years of ministry; but as most of you know, in a few months, if …
Sermon preached by Pastor Alan Redpath in The Moody Church on Sunday, June 1, 1958.
What a difference it makes in life when we not only talk about thanks giving, but when thanks giving issues in thanks living!
For our meditation we are to consider Luke 17:11–19—the story of ten lepers. Though the Bible has many themes that run through it, and many chords assist in playing the great overtures of redemption, there is only one major theme that runs through it all—that of man’s relationship to God: a relationship which was broken long, long ago by rebellion, which God …
Sermon preached by Dr. Harold Ockenga, Park Street Church, Boston, in The Moody Church on Sunday morning, June 12, 1960.
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”—Matthew 6:33
I declare unto you that this text is true. It is true in my life. It is true in the history of my church. It is true in the work of churches all over this land. Wherever we as individual believers or we as a group of corporate believers will seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, …
Children need to be converted and born again. There are a good many in our day who do not believe that. They talk about the children “growing up into the kingdom,” but unless the children accept Jesus Christ and are definitely converted and born again they are not in the kingdom and cannot grow up into it.
I know of a little child of four years of age whose father and mother were infidels, grandfather and grandmother were infidels, and all of her uncles and aunts were infidels, but that child definitely …
Message by Paul Rader during the annual missionary rally, Thursday evening, May 31, 1917.
Surely Paul must have felt strange to be forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word any longer in Asia; and then when he essayed to go on to Bithynia, to have the Spirit suffer him not to remain there. He must have been baffled as he came down to Troas. Can you imagine him in this strait betwixt two, taking himself alone with the Lord to inquire of the Lord what He would have him do?
The story in Luke 7:36–50 which we are now to consider, is quite unique in all the four Gospels. There is one very much like it which is recounted by Matthew and Mark which took place much later in the ministry of our Lord, when a woman poured a box of precious ointment upon His head, and then broke the box. In John 11 she is identified as Mary of Bethany.
Here we meet in this chapter two people—Simon a Pharisee, and a woman which is called a sinner, as Luke describes her. They are in the same house, but …
