F. B. Meyer Once Said…

“We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible.” –F. B. Meyer (1847-1929)

One of the greatly loved preachers of his day, Frederick Brotherton Meyer was a pastor, author, Bible teacher and evangelist. He was born in London in 1847 and grew up in a Christian home.

After attending Brighton College, he graduated from London University in 1869 and completed his theological training at Regents Park Baptist College.

Dr. Meyer began pastoring in 1870, and in 1872 he went to Priory Street Baptist Chapel. There he met D. L. Moody, who made a lasting impression upon his life and taught him valuable spiritual lessons. These two godly men formed a lifelong friendship.

In 1895 he went to Christ Church in London, with only 100 attending. Within two years he was preaching regularly to over 2,000. He remained there for fifteen years and then began a ministry of conference preaching and evangelism, traveling to South Africa and the Far East on mission endeavors. He returned to England to pastor for several years before he died in 1929. [Source: SwordOfTheLord.com]

Many messages and writings of Meyer have been very beneficial to me, however, there are a few that have been most helpful to me. They are: “Great Men of the Bible” and “The Epistle to the Philippians” [Many of his books can be found online at: GoToTheBible.com]

Here are few quotes from his writings and preaching…

“The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice. 

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes. 

Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our will. Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about everything. 

God has set Eternity in our heart, and man's infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense. 

A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good. 

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree. 

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. 

Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear. 

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.”

Cabinet Chronicles...pre-judging

In this edition of the Cabinet Chronicles you will discover the importance of not pre-judging other people. 





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Clovis Chappell Once Said…

“Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.” (Clovis G. Chappell)

Clovis G. Chappell (1882-1972) was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1908, and over the next 41 years held pastorates in Washington, Memphis, Houston, Birmingham and Charlotte, North Carolina. He officially retired in 1949 but filled numerous speaking engagements each year throughout the country. Born at Flat Woods, Tennessee on January 8, 1882, he studied at Trinity (now Duke) and Harvard Universities. He held doctoral degrees from Duke, Centenary College of Louisiana, and Birmingham Southern College. He was the author of some 35 religious books which were distributed throughout the world.

In my library are numerous books that are collections of his sermons. A few that I gleaned most from are: “When the Church Was Young” “Sermons from Job” and “The Seven Words.”


Here I offer some of my favorite quotes from Chappell…

A religion that does not permeate and purify and uplift and sanctify business and business relations is not the religion of Jesus Christ. 

We get in the grip of doubt and straightway we turn from the fellowship of those who know the Lord to the fellowship of those who confessedly do not know Him. 

What we need is faith. For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. Real faith dares something, something big and brawny, beyond the human. Hence it brings into life the thrill of finest romance. 

How glorious that, when we resist God's purpose and all but wreck ourselves, He will make us again. Truly we would be a hopeless race but for the fact that we have a mighty God who is able to remake us even when we have rebelled against Him and have thwarted His blessed plans for us. 

As long as your sin breaks your heart, as long as your disobedience makes you lie awake nights and wet your pillow in tears there is hope for you. But when you become contented with your wickedness, when you come to believe that it is the best possible for you, then you are in danger indeed. 

You may suffer and yet be un-Christlike, but no man can be Christlike and fail to suffer. If you ever, by the grace of God, become a partaker of the divine nature you must also inevitably become a partaker of His sufferings. 

I have never felt any hesitation in speaking to my congregation about money. I thrill to it. I revel in it. I love to see the liberal enjoy it; I love to watch the stingy suffer.

The Lord Is…

“Blessed be the name of the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications! The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him. The Lord is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed. Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.” (Psalm 28.6-9, NKJV)