Sermons & Devotionals by Reuben Archer Torrey
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 3: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God, Chapter 3
ILLUSTRATIONS AND THEIR USE Nothing goes further toward making an interesting and effective speaker than the power of illustration. All preachers who have been successful in reaching men have been especially gifted in their power of illustration. Much of the power of Spurgeon, Moody, and Guthrie lay... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 12. The Sacrifice of Jephtha's Daughter
The story of Jephthah's daughter as recorded in the Bible has presented a great difficulty to many superficial students of the Bible, as well as to many critics of it. How can we possibly justify Jephthah's burning of his daughter as a sacrifice to Jehovah? In the first place, we are nowhere told th... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Study the Bible: Part 1: Chapter 4: Biographical Study
A third method of study is the Biographical. This needs no definition. It consists in taking up the various persons mentioned in Scripture and studying their life, work and character. It is really a special form of Topical Study. It can be made very interesting and instructive. It is especially usef... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Prayer of Faith
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him." 1 John 5:14, 15 Please notice carefully exactly what God tells us in this passage. Here we are... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Certainty and Importance of the Physical Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the corner-stone of Christian doctrine. It is mentioned directly one hundred and four or more times in the New Testament. It was the most prominent and cardinal point in the apostolic testimony. When the apostolic company, after the apostasy of Judas... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 7. The Holy Spirit Convicting the World of Sin, of Righteousness and of Judgment
Our salvation begins experimentally with our being brought to a profound sense that we need a Saviour. The Holy Spirit is the One who brings us to this realization of our need. We read in John xvi. 8-11, R. V., "And He, when He is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness,... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 1: Personal Work, Chapter 15
SOME HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR PERSONAL WORK A few general suggestions that will be helpful to the personal worker remain to be made. I. AS A RULE, CHOOSE PERSONS TO DEAL WITH OF YOUR OWN SEX. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule. One should always be looking to the Holy Spirit for His guid... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Holding Him to the Scriptures
(as told by Faris Daniel Whitesell) One time I received a letter, a very heartbroken letter, from a father who was a Presbyterian minister. He wrote that he had a son who was in awful spiritual darkness. The son thought that he had committed the unpardonable sin, and he was plunged into absolute des... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 3: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God, Chapter 4
TEACHING THE BIBLE I. THE IMPORTANCE OF BIBLE TEACHING. 1. THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD. The man who is really teaching the Bible may be confident that he is doing a good work, for beyond a doubt he is teaching the truth of God. 2. THERE IS A GREAT DEMAND IN OUR DAY FOR BIBLE TEACHERS. The man who t... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 13. "Impure" Bible Stories
An old and favorite objection to the Bible on the part of unbelievers is that there are in it "chapters that reek with obscenity from beginning to end." That there are chapters in the Bible which describe scenes that cannot be wisely dealt with in a mixed audience we have no desire to deny; but thes... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How God Guides
"Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory." Psalm 73:23-24 There are no promises in God's Word more precious to the man who wishes to do His will, and who realizes the goodness of His will, than the promises of ... Read More
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How to Work for Christ: Book 2: Methods of Christian Work, Chapter 1
HOUSE TO HOUSE VISITATION I. ITS IMPORTANCE AND ADVANTAGES. 1. IT IS APOSTOLIC. The Apostle Paul was a house to house visitor. In Acts 20:20 he calls to the minds of the Ephesian elders the fact that he had taught them not only publicly, but also "from house to house." Many of us feel above this wor... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to be Inexpressibly Happy
I have here a beautiful text, a text that you all know, but I wonder how many of you have ever pondered it enough to take in all its wonderful wealth of meaning. A young woman in England many years ago always wore a golden locket that she would not allow anyone to open or look into, and everyone tho... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 14. David's Sin
In 2 Samuel 11 we read the story of one of the saddest downfalls of a man of God recorded anywhere in history, and at the same time we read the record of one of the most contemptible and outrageous sins that any man ever perpetrated against a faithful friend. We read how David committed against his ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 2: Methods of Christian Work, Chapter 2
COTTAGE MEETINGS I. THEIR IMPORTANCE AND ADVANTAGES. 1. YOU CAN REACH PEOPLE WHO CANNOT BE REACHED IN ANY OTHER WAY. (1) People who cannot go to church on account of family duties. There are a great many people in every city, and still more in the country, for whom it is absolutely impossible to go ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 3: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God, Chapter 5
TEXTUAL SERMONS IN OUTLINE We print in this chapter a number of outlines of textual sermons. It is not intended that these outlines shall be used exactly as here given; they are simply offered by way of illustration and suggestion. We first give outlines of sermons for Christians, and afterward outl... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 8. The Holy Spirit Bearing Witness to Jesus Christ
When our Lord was talking to His disciples on the night before His crucifixion of the Comforter who after His departure was to come to take His place, He said, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He s... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 15. The Imprecatory Psalms
A frequent objection urged against the Bible is founded upon some of the utterances in the so-called imprecatory psalms. Many of these utterances have greatly perplexed earnest-minded Christians who have carefully studied the New Testament teaching regarding the forgiveness of enemies. Three passage... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 9. The Regenerating Work of the Holy Spirit
The Apostle Paul in Titus iii. 5, R. V., writes, "Not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost." In these words we are taught that the Holy Spirit renews men, or makes men new, a... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How To Pray 1 - THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER
In the 6th chapter of Ephesians in the 18th verse we read words which put the tremendous importance of prayer with startling and overwhelming force: "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints." When we ... Read More
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Reuben Archer Torrey was one of America's best-known evangelists and Bible teachers. He was educated at Yale and also at various German universities. During his early years he went through a time of extreme skepticism, but emerged as a staunch preacher of the faith.
In 1889, while in the pastorate, D. L. Moody invited him to become become the superintendent of his new school in Chicago (now the Moody Bible Institute.) He also served as pastor to the Chicago Avenue Church, now the Moody Church. He and Charles Alexander conducted evangelistic meetings together in many parts of the world.
From the years 1912-19 R A Torrey served as dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. He also served from 1914 as pastor of the Church of the Open Door. From 1924 to his death, he ministered in conferences and taught at the Moody Bible Institute.