Billy Sunday
1862-1935

      Billy Sunday died in Chicago, November 6, 1935; services were held in the Moody Memorial Church with 4,400 present.

      "Take 15 minutes each day to listen to God talking to you; take 15 minutes each day to talk to God; take 15 minutes each day to talk to others about God."

      This young convert was deeply impressed and determined to make these the rules of his life. From that day onward throughout his life he made it a rule to spend the first moments of his day alone with God and God's Word.

      Before he read a letter, looked at a paper or even read a telegram, he went first to the Bible, that the first impression of the day might be what he got directly from God.
      

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1.) Atonement Through the Blood of Jesus
      "For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" - Paul argued in his letter to the Hebrews "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God." ...read more

2.) Backsliding
      "Thy own wickedness shall correct thee. Thy backsliding shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts." Jeremiah 11:19. Many start the voyage of the Christian life under sending skies and upon smooth waters, but ...read more

3.) Booze
      Here we have one of the strangest scenes in all the Gospels. Two men, possessed of devils, confront Jesus, and while the devils are crying out for Jesus to leave them, he commands the devils to come out, and the devils obey the command of Jesus. The devils ask permission to enter into a herd of swine feeding on the hillside. This is the only record ...read more

4.) Broken Down Altars
      "He repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down."-- I Kings 18:30 There is something more than history in the chapter from which my text is taken, just as there is always more in a picture than is seen at first glance. The state of affairs at this time the chapter opens was as bad as is possible for the human mind to conceive. The cou ...read more

5.) Gethsemane
      "And being more in agony, He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground" -- Luke 22:24 Infidels have seized upon certain verses of Scripture and have given as reasons for their unbelief that the statement therein contained did not agree with their opinion. One of these verses is the one t ...read more

6.) He That Winneth Souls is Wise
      (As preached in Richmond, Indiana, 1922) "He that winneth souls is wise." -- Proverbs 11:30 There are vast multitudes in this enlightened land of ours who are in open rebellion against God. "We will not have this man, Jesus Christ, to reign over us," is the heartless cry that winds its flight from office, shop, store, factory, home, college ...read more

7.) Motherhood
      "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages" -- Exodus 2:9 THE STORY OF MOSES is one of the most beautiful and fascinating in all the world. It takes a hold on us and never for an instant does it lose its interest, for it is so graphically told that once heard it is never forgotten. I have often imagined the a ...read more

8.) Old Time Religion
      INTRODUCTION Modern to the last minute Sunday's methods may be, but his message is unmistakably the "Old-time religion." He believes his beliefs without a ques tion. There is no twilight zone in his intellectual processes; no mental reservation in his preaching. He is sure that man is lost without Christ, and that only by the acceptance of the S ...read more

9.) Shew Thyself a Man
      "Be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man" -- 1 Kings 2:2 No one can read the Bible in a thoughtful way without being impressed with the fact that it makes much of manhood, and holds it up as something that should be sought after with diligence and perseverance. In fact the Bible exalts and emphasizes manhood in a remarkable way, and ...read more

10.) Spiritual Food for a Hungry World
      "They need not depart; give ye them to eat." - Matthew 14:16. Some folks do not believe in miracles. I do. A denial of miracles is a denial of the virgin birth of Jesus. The Christian religion stands or falls on the virgin birth of Christ. God created Adam and Eve without human agencies. He could and did create Jesus supernaturally. I place no l ...read more

11.) Teach Us To Pray
      We live and develop physically by exercise. We are saved by faith, but we must work out our salvation by doing the things God wills. The more we do for God, the more God will do through us. Faith will increase by experience. If you are a stranger to prayer you are a stranger to the greatest test source of power known to human beings. If we car ...read more

12.) The Devil's Boomerangs
      "Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment" -- Eccl. 11:9 "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" -- Galatians 6:7 You can always get the trut ...read more

13.) The Need For Revivals
      Somebody asks: "What is a revival? " Revival is a purely philosophical, common-sense result of the wise use of divinely appointed means, just the same as water will put out a fire; the same as food will appease your hunger; just the same as water will slake your thirst; it is a philosophical common-sense use of divinely appointed means to accomplis ...read more

14.) The Second Coming of Christ
      "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words" (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18). THE MEETING here mentioned is to be the greatest meeting the Bible tells us anything about. There have been some ...read more

15.) Theater, Cards and Dance
       "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."--Gal. 6:7. I know of no more suitable text in all the Bible for the subject that I have in hand. And by the presence of such a vast audience and by the expectant look upon your upturned faces I am sure that you will not expect me to utter one word of d ...read more

16.) Under the Sun
      "What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?" -- Eccl. 1:3 THIS question is asked and answered by King Solomon, and in our language it means about this: "What good does a man get out of life if he lives only for what this world can give?" If any man has ever been able to give the right answer to this great question, ...read more

17.) Why Delay Your Real Conversion?
      What does converted mean? It means completely changed. Converted is not synonymous with reformed. Reforms are from without - conversion from within. Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've refor ...read more