Sermons & Devotionals by Reuben Archer Torrey
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 2: Methods of Christian Work, Chapter 3
PARLOR MEETINGS Parlor meetings are much the same in thought and in method as cottage meetings, with this difference, that cottage meetings are intended to reach people of the middle classes and the poor, while parlor meetings are intended to reach the rich. There are many who think there is no use ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 3: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God, Chapter 6
TOPICAL SERMONS IN OUTLINE # THE BIBLE: WHEREIN IT DIFFERS FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS INTRODUCTION. -- The Bible stands absolutely alone. It is an entirely unique book. It is not a book, it is THE Book. Wherein the Bible differs from all other books: I. In its Depth. The Bible is the unfathomable and inex... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 3: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God, Chapter 7
EXPOSITORY SERMONS AND BIBLE READINGS IN OUTLINE # GOD'S PICTURE OF A HAPPY MAN (Psalm 1:1-3.) INTRODUCTION. -- God is a great artist. There is no one that draws such perfect pictures as He. Some of God's pictures He Himself labels, others He leaves us to put the titles to. In the first Psalm, the f... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 10. The Indwelling Spirit Fully and Forever Satisfying
The Holy Spirit takes up His abode in the one who is born of the Spirit. The Apostle Paul says to the believers in Corinth in 1 Cor. iii. 16, R. V., "Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" This passage refers, not so much to the individual believer, as ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 16. Does the God of Truth and Love Send Lying Spirits and Evil Spirits to Men?
One of the most puzzling passages in the Bible is found in 1 Kings 22, and in the parallel account in 2 Chronicles 18. In these passages the Prophet Micaiah is reported as saying, "Therefore hear thou the word of the LORD" (v. 19, RV). Then he goes on: "I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How To Pray 2 - PRAYING UNTO GOD
We have seen something of the tremendous importance and the resistless power of prayer, and now we come directly to the question- -how to pray with power. 1. In the 12th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles we have the record of a prayer that prevailed with God, and brought to pass great results. In ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 2: Methods of Christian Work, Chapter 4
THE CHURCH PRAYER MEETING I. IMPORTANCE AND ADVANTAGES. The prayer meeting ought to be the most important meeting in the church. It is the most important meeting if it is rightly conducted. Of course the church prayer meeting in many churches is more a matter of form than a center of power. The thin... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Christian Conception of God
God is light. 1 John 1:5 God is love. 1 John 4:8, 16 With God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 His understanding has no limit. Psalm 147:5 We are to consider again today the Christian conception of God. We have seen that God is spirit, that God is a Person and that God has a personal interest ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Secret of Abiding Peace
"Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." Genesis 5:24. Our subject is "The Secret of Abiding Peace. Abounding joy, and Abundant Victory in War Times and at All Times." You will find the text in Genesis 5:24, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God too... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Study the Bible: Part 1: Chapter 5: Study of Types
A fourth method of study is the Study of Types. We have illustrations of this in the Bible itself, as for example in the Epistle to the Hebrews. It is both an interesting and instructive method of study. It shows us the most precious truths buried away in what once seemed to us a very dry and meanin... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Difficulties in the Bible: 17. Jonah and the Whale
The story of Jonah and "the whale" has for many years been a butt of ridicule with unbelievers, and the cause of not a little perplexity with those who are "unlearned and unstable." The story is quite generally discredited by the destructive critics as being unhistorical. They attempt to explain it ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Is The Bible In Danger?
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Matt. 24: 35. SOME weeks ago I preached on this same text, but we are going to approach it to-night from a different standpoint. The question before us is, is the Bible in danger? Our text asserts that it is not, and I propose to ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 11. The Holy Spirit Setting the Believer Free From the Power of Indwelling Sin
In Rom. viii. 2 the Apostle Paul writes, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." What the law of sin and death is we learn from the preceding chapter, the ninth to the twenty-fourth verses. Paul tells us that there was a time in his life when ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Study the Bible: Part 1: Chapter 6: Chronological Order
THE STUDY OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE IN THE ORDER GIVEN IN THE BIBLE AND IN THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. A fifth method of Bible study is the old-fashioned method of the study of the Bible in course, beginning at Genesis and going right on until Revelation is finished. This method of study is ridiculed... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How To Pray 3 - OBEYING AND PRAYING
1. One of the most significant verses in the Bible on prayer is 1 John 3:22. John says, "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight." What an astounding statement! John says in so many words, that everything he asked... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
How to Work for Christ: Book 2: Methods of Christian Work, Chapter 5
THE USE OF TRACTS Comparatively few Christians realize the importance of tract work. I had been a Christian a good many years, and a minister of the Gospel several years, before it ever entered my head that tracts were of much value in Christian work. I had somehow grown up with the notion that trac... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Complete and Symmetrical Life, and How to Attain to It
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness (kindness), goodness, faith (faithfulness), meekness, temperance." Gal. 5 : 22, 23. THE average life is a very partial life. Even the life of the average Christian is a very partial life, a one-sided life, it is a life in w... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Secret of Blessedness in Heart, Beauty in Character, Fruitfulness in Service, and Prosperity in Everything
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that ... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
Jesus the Wonderful
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Isa. 9:6. THE prophet Isaiah with a mind illumined by the Holy Spirit, looked down 74... Read More
Reuben Archer Torrey
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 12. The Holy Spirit Forming Christ Within Us
It is a wonderful and deeply significant prayer that Paul offers in Eph. iii. 16-19 for the believers in Ephesus and for all believers who read the Epistle. Paul writes, "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that He would grant you, a... Read More
Subscribe
Get Bible verse every day in your inbox
Read on Mobile
Most Searched
Group of Brands
© 2025 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
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.