Sermons & Devotionals by Charles Naylor

Doing Something Worth While! Charles Naylor, 1920 We all like to feel that what we are doing counts for something — that it is really worth while. We like to see practical results. We know that much labor is lost in the world, and we do not want ours to be lost. The ordinary things of life seem to a... Read More

What it Means to Trust the Lord Charles Naylor, 1920 Throughout the Bible, we are exhorted again and again to trust in the Lord. We are warned against trusting in princes, in riches, or in ourselves — for all such trust is vain. Trusting in the Lord is represented as being safe, as blessed, and as p... Read More

Two Ways of Seeing! Charles Naylor, 1920 The appearance that things have to us, depends to a great extent upon the way that we look at them. Sometimes our mental attitude toward them is largely responsible for their appearance. Often two or more persons look at the same thing, and each one sees some... Read More

Home-made Clouds! Charles Naylor, 1920 Louise stood looking out of the window with unseeing eyes. There was a troubled expression upon her face. There were tears in her eyes, and a lump in her throat. What was the trouble? An hour before she had been singing as blithely as a song-bird. Her morning d... Read More

How to Fertilize Love Charles Naylor, 1920 Love is the greatest thing in earth or Heaven. Out of it flows most of the things that are worth while in life. Love of relatives, love of friends, and love of the brethren (1 John 3:14) make life worth living. There is no heart so empty, as the heart that ... Read More

Blowing the Clouds Away! Charles Naylor, 1920 I had been passing through a period of sore conflict. For several days I had had gloomy and distressing feelings. I had struggled with all my might against them. I had tried to draw near the Lord and to get special help from him. It was hard to pray, and... Read More

Baptized with Fire! Charles Naylor, 1920 John the Baptist said, when speaking of the work of the coming Messiah, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." The symbolic tongues of fire which sat on the believers on the day of Pentecost represented a very real something which from hen... Read More

My Dream Message Charles Naylor, 1920 Solomon says that dreams come "A dream comes when there are many cares." Ecclesiastes 5:3. Our night thoughts are like our day thoughts, except that our faculties being partly asleep, our dreams usually lack the coherence and the reasonableness of our waking tho... Read More

Three Necessary Rations Charles Naylor, 1920 The soul, like the body, must have something to nourish and strengthen it — to give it vigor and vitality. An army will have neither the strength nor the courage to fight, unless it has its rations. And if I may be allowed a play on words, I may say that ... Read More

The Living Bible! Charles Naylor, 1920 The Bible is a living book. What it is to us, depends on what we are to it. If we approach it with unbelief and sneers — then it shudders like a wounded thing and closes up its heart, and we gaze only on a cold and hard exterior. We behold the form of its words... Read More

Paul's Persuasion Charles Naylor, 1920 Paul uses the term "persuaded" in the sense of assurance. When he said that he was persuaded of a thing involving God's attitude — he meant that he was fully convinced that it was as it was stated to be. He meant that to him it stood out as a reality. It was a ... Read More

In Christ, and in Ephesus Charles Naylor, 1920 Paul addressed his Ephesian epistle, "To the saints who are at Ephesus — the faithful in Christ Jesus." The people addressed were in Ephesus — and they were likewise in Christ . What did it mean to be in Ephesus? Ephesus was one of the great centers of ... Read More

Do You Need Patience? Charles Naylor, 1920 Have you not often heard people say, "My greatest need is more patience"? Possibly you feel just that way yourself. There is probably no lack that so quickly and persistently manifests itself, as lack of patience — which cannot exist without revealing itsel... Read More

Stumbling-stones — or Stepping-stones? Charles Naylor, 1920 Things may either be stumbling-stones or stepping-stones to us. They may be hindrances or helps — trials or blessings . What they prove to be, depends not so much on their nature — as upon our attitude toward them. It is not our opportuniti... Read More

Use What You Have! Charles Naylor, 1920 Few people really are and do their best. Nature has blessed a few with great talents and abilities. These people often become proud, self-centered, and feel themselves to be superior — and for that reason many times they fail to make the proper use of their ab... Read More

Joy in Trials Charles Naylor, 1920 A Christian sister wrote to me recently, desiring me to tell her how she might find sweetness and joy in her trials. She seemed to have in her mind an ideal experience in which she could be joyous and calm and sweetly contented while undergoing trials, and she was ... Read More

Sponges and Watering-cans Charles Naylor, 1920 It was Jesus' custom to draw spiritual lessons from the things surrounding him — and by some similitude , to impress upon his hearers a profitable truth. In the same way, we may get many valuable thoughts from the simple things of every-day life. The ar... Read More

The Big End of Trouble Charles Naylor, 1920 I once saw the following in a paper: "Trouble has a way of coming Big end first; And when seen at its appearing, Looks its very worst." Many people are always seeing trouble . They are "troubled on every side." Whenever they talk — it is generally to tell ... Read More

Self-made Barriers Charles Naylor, 1920 It seems strange that anyone should build barriers in his own way, and lay hindrances in his own path. But that is just what many people are doing. They wish to accomplish something; they desire to do something for the Lord — but someway they find themselves a... Read More

How to Work God's Joy-machine Charles Naylor, 1920 It was a bright, sunny morning as Brother Littlejoy walked down the street toward the railway-station. But somehow the brightness of the morning was not reflected in Brother Littlejoy's face. He seemed gloomy; his gaze rested upon the ground. As he ... Read More