Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings (VIII–) to Ecclesiastes

About this book

One volume of Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, gathering his expository sermons on the later chapters of Second Kings through Ecclesiastes. MacLaren, the Manchester preacher famed for the clarity and freshness of his pulpit work, takes passage after passage and opens its meaning with careful structure and vivid application. These sermons reward slow reading, whether for study, preaching preparation, or private devotion.

Contents

1. The Story of Hazael
2. Impure Zeal
3. Jehoiada and Joash
4. Methodical Liberality
5. The Spirit of Power
6. A Kingdom’s Epitaph
7. Divided Worship
8. Hezekiah, a Pattern of Devout Life
9. ‘He Uttered His Voice, the Earth Melted’
10. The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects
11. The End
12. The King’s Potters
13. David’s Choristers 🔒
14. Drill and Enthusiasm 🔒
15. David’s Prohibited Desire and Permitted Service 🔒
16. David’s Charge to Solomon 🔒
17. The Waves of Time 🔒
18. The Duty of Every Day 🔒
19. Contrasted Services 🔒
20. The Secret of Victory 🔒
21. Asa’s Reformation, and Consequent Peace and Victory 🔒
22. Asa’s Prayer 🔒
23. The Search that Always Finds 🔒
24. Jehoshaphat’s Reform 🔒
25. Amasiah 🔒
26. ‘A Mirror for Magistrates’ 🔒
27. A Strange Battle 🔒
28. Holding Fast and Held Fast 🔒
29. Joash 🔒
30. Glad Givers and Faithful Workers 🔒
31. Prudence and Faith 🔒
32. Jotham 🔒
33. Costly and Fatal Help 🔒
34. A Godly Reformation 🔒
35. Sacrifice Renewed 🔒
36. A Loving Call to Reunion 🔒
37. A Strange Reward for Faithfulness 🔒
38. Manasseh’s Sin and Repentance 🔒
39. Josiah 🔒
40. Josiah and the Newly Found Law 🔒
41. The Fall of Judah 🔒
42. The Eve of the Restoration 🔒
43. Altar and Temple 🔒
44. Building in Troublous Times 🔒
45. The New Temple and its Worship 🔒
46. God the Joy-bringer 🔒
47. Heroic Faith 🔒
48. The Charge of the Pilgrim Priests 🔒
49. A Reformer’s Schooling 🔒
50. The Church and Social Evils 🔒
51. ‘Over Against His House’ 🔒
52. Discouragements and Courage 🔒
53. An Ancient Nonconformist 🔒
54. Reading the Law with Tears and Joy 🔒
55. The Joy of the Lord 🔒
56. Sabbath Observance 🔒
57. The Net Spread 🔒
58. Esther’s Venture 🔒
59. Mordecai and Esther 🔒
60. The Net Broken 🔒
61. Sorrow that Worships 🔒
62. The Peaceable Fruits of Sorrows Rightly Borne 🔒
63. Two Kinds of Hope 🔒
64. Job’s Question, Jesus’ Answer 🔒
65. Knowledge and Peace 🔒
66. What Life May be Made 🔒
67. ‘The End of the Lord’ 🔒
68. A Young Man’s Best Counsellor 🔒
69. Wisdom’s Call 🔒
70. The Secret of Well-being 🔒
71. The Gifts of Heavenly Wisdom 🔒
72. The Two Paths 🔒
73. Monotony and Crises 🔒
74. From Dawn to Noon 🔒
75. Keeping and Kept 🔒
76. The Cords of Sin 🔒
77. Wisdom’s Gift 🔒
78. Wisdom and Christ 🔒
79. The Two-fold Aspect of the Divine Working 🔒
80. The Many-sided Contrast of Wisdom and Folly 🔒
81. The Poor Rich and the Rich Poor 🔒
82. The Tillage of the Poor 🔒
83. Sin the Mocker 🔒
84. Hollow Laughter, Solid Joy 🔒
85. Satisfied From Self 🔒
86. What I Think of Myself and What God Thinks of Me 🔒
87. A Bundle of Proverbs 🔒
88. Two Fortresses 🔒
89. A String of Pearls 🔒
90. The Sluggard in Harvest 🔒
91. Bread and Gravel 🔒
92. A Condensed Guide for Life 🔒
93. The Afterwards and Our Hope 🔒
94. The Portrait of a Drunkard 🔒
95. The Crime of Negligence 🔒
96. The Sluggard’s Garden 🔒
97. An Unwalled City 🔒
98. The Weight of Sand 🔒
99. Portrait of a Matron 🔒
100. What Passes and What Abides 🔒
101. The Past and the Furture 🔒
102. Two Views of Life 🔒
103. ‘A Time to Plant’ 🔒
104. Eternity in the Heart 🔒
105. Lessons for Worship and for Work 🔒
106. Naked or Clothed? 🔒
107. Finis Coronot Opus 🔒
108. Misused Respite 🔒
109. Fences and Serpents 🔒
110. The Way to the City 🔒
111. A New Years Sermon to the Young 🔒
112. The Conclusion of the Matter 🔒