Luminescence, Volume 3

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C. K. Barrett. Luminescence, Volume 3

LUMINESCENCE

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

“WALKING WITH GOD”—Genesis 5.24; Hebrews 11.5

“THE RECONSECRATIONS OF LIFE”—Genesis 13.1–4

“MOUNT MORIAH, THE HILL OF TESTING”—Genesis 22.2

“THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF MAN”—Genesis 33.10

“THE GOD OF DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES”—Exodus 3.6

“THE CRIMES OF THE CARELESS”—Exodus 22.6

“THE CHRISTMAS FAITH AND THE CHRISTMAS FEAST”—Exodus 24.11

“THE FIRST SANCTUARY AND ITS FURNITURE”—Exodus 25.21, 22

“THE DAY OF DAYS”—Deuteronomy 16.3

“MOUNT PISGAH—THE HILL OF VISION”—Deuteronomy 34.1–4

“THE CALL TO THE CAPABLE”—Judges 9.7

“SAMSON—A CHARACTER STUDY”—Judges 16.20

“GOD AND BREAD”—Ruth 1.6

“DAVID HARPING BEFORE SAUL”—1 Samuel 16.17, 23

“THE GREEN EYE OF THE YELLOW GOD”—1 Samuel 18.9

“STRENGTHENING A MAN’S HAND IN GOD”—1 Samuel 23.16

“THE GRACE OF HUMILITY”—2 Samuel 7.18

“CONCERNING THE SAFETY OF YOUNG PEOPLE”—2 Samuel 18.29

“RELIGION AS LOYALTY”—1 Kings 2.4

“UNACCOMPLISHED AIMS”—1 Kings 8.17–19

“CAN RELIGION BE MADE EASY?”—1 Kings 12.28

“MOUNT CARMEL —THE HILL OF DECISION”—1 Kings 18.20, 21

“THE BROKEN ALTAR”—1 Kings 18.30

“LISTENING IN AND LISTENING OUT”—1 Kings 19.11

“A RELIGION THAT COSTS”—1 Chronicles 21.23, 24

“GOD’S GOODNESS AND MAN’S RESPONSE”—1 Chronicles 22.14–16

“A CHARGE TO KEEP”—Ezra 8.29

“RIDICULE AND REBUILDING”—Nehemiah 4.2–3

“THE HERITAGE OF YOUTH”—Psalm 16.6

“THE FEAST IN THE PRESENCE OF FOES”—Psalm 23.5

“WORSHIP IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS”—Psalm 29.2

“KNOWN IN ADVERSITIES”—Psalm 31.7

“THE AUSTERITIES OF THE HILLS”—Psalm 84.5

“THE SOUL’S STRONGHOLD”—Psalm 91.1

“SETTING THE LAW TO MUSIC”—Psalm 119.54

“DISTANT AND NEAR”—Proverbs 17.24

“THE HEARTH OF GOD”—Isaiah 31.9

“THE UNDISCOURAGED SERVANT”—Isaiah 42.4

“BLIND TO HIS BEAUTY”—Isaiah 53.2

“THE FOOL AND HIS PENKNIFE”—Jeremiah 36.23

“THE LIKENESS OF MAN ON THE THRONE OF GOD”—Ezekiel 1.26

“PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE”—Ezekiel 3.15

“SHOWERS OF BLESSING”—Ezekiel 34.26

“THE CHURCH AS BENEFACTOR”—Micah 5.7

“TO THE WORK! TO THE WORK!”—Haggai 2.4

“A WHITSUNTIDE ASSURANCE”—Haggai 2.5

“WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS”—Zechariah 13.6

“THINKING UPON GOD’S NAME”—Malachi 3.16

“THE UNWANTED CHRIST”—Matthew 8.34

“THE SERVANT’S TEMPER AND METHOD”—Matthew 12.19, 20

“LOVE’S LABOR NOT LOST”—Matthew 26.8

“DARKNESS AND DAWN”—Matthew 28.1

“EMPHASIZE YOUR FAITH”—Mark 4.24

“CHRIST AND GOOD YOUNG PEOPLE”—Mark 5.21, 22

“THE DAYSPRING FROM ON HIGH”—Luke 1.78, 79

“THE SIGN TO THE SHEPHERDS”—Luke 2.12

“THE PILGRIMAGE TO BETHLEHEM”—Luke 2.15

“THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEPARTING ANGEL”—Luke 2.15; Acts 7.10

“LAUNCH OUT”—Luke 5.4, 5

“RELIGION ON THE DOORSTEP”—Luke 5.9

“THE GOSPEL OF A TOUCH”—Luke 5.13; 8.46

“WHERE IT IS GOOD TO BE”—Luke 9.33

“WHAT SETS ANGELS SINGING”—Luke 15.10

“THE GRACE OF GRATITUDE”—Luke 17.17

“CHRIST LIFTED UP”—John 12.32

“HIS MISSION AND OURS”—John 17.18; 20.21

“THE GARDEN BY THE CROSS”—John 19.41

“THE MAN WHO MISSED THE MEETING”—John 20.24

“FROM BAD TO WORSE”—Acts 12.2, 3

“MIDNIGHT MUSIC”—Acts 16.25

“THE GRACE OF CONTINUANCE”—Acts 26.22

“A GREAT TRIAL SCENE”—Acts 26.29

“CHRIST CRUCIFIED AND RISEN”—Romans 8.34

“THE FULL-ORBED GOSPEL”—Romans 15.29

“RUFUS—A CHOICE CHRISTIAN”—Romans 16.13

“THE CHRISTIAN OPTIMIST”—1 Corinthians 1.4

“CHRIST’S FAITH IN US”—1 Corinthians 13.7

“CHRIST’S CAPTIVE”—2 Corinthians 2.14

“GRACE ABOUNDING”—2 Corinthians 9.8

“GOD’S UNSPEAKABLE GIFT”—2 Corinthians 9.15

“SERMON ON THE MOTTO FOR 1937”—2 Corinthians 13.11

“THE CHRISTIAN’S CREDENTIALS”—Galatians 6.17

“THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES”—Ephesians 3.8

“THE MIND OF CHRIST”—Philippians 2.5

“THE GRACE OF CONTENTMENT”—Philippians 4.11–13

“THE PREACHER’S PLEA FOR THE PEOPLE’S PRAYERS”—2 Thessalonians 3.1

“OUR ENJOYMENT OF GOD’S GIFTS”—1 Timothy 6.17

“THE SPIRIT’S THREEFOLD GIFT”—2 Timothy 1.7

“THE SECOND CHANCE”—2 Timothy 4.11

“THE STORY OF A SLAVE”—Philemon 10, 11

“THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE”—Hebrews 13.15

“GOD WILLING”—James 4.15

“THE GRACE OF CHARITY”—1 Peter 4.8

“THE ADDITIONS OF GRACE”—2 Peter 1.5

“THE WAY OF BALAAM”—2 Peter 2.15

“FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD”—1 John 1.3

“THE GRACE OF PATIENCE”—Revelation 1.9

“CHRIST AT THE DOOR”—Revelation 3.20

“KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS”—Revelation 14.4,5

“No More Sea”—Revelation 21.1

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The Sermons of C. K. and Fred Barrett

—Volume Three—

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These sermons were preached from 1922 to 1952, and interestingly one of them was preached at both the first and the last of these dates. Fred, however, dates his ministry from 1906 according to the sermon “The Full-Orbed Gospel.” This means that the sermons in this volume do not reflect his earliest efforts but come from during the time he was already an experienced pastor and evangelist. Like his son, Fred Barrett recycled his sermons, and some he preached as many as thirty times. But there is no evidence he preached as many times over as long a period as Kingsley. And it is to be noted that while Kingsley seems to have been often the especially chosen preacher for the high holy days in the calendar (and so there are many more Christmas and Easter and Watchnight and Pentecost sermons from him than from his father), one is hard pressed to find a lot of “high holy day” sermons from the pen of Fred Barrett, though there are some. I attribute this to Fred being a parish minister primarily throughout his ministry, while Kingsley was often a special days preacher, as well as a regular circuit preacher during his academic tenure between 1945 and the early 1980s.

Two tendencies also characterize the preaching of both father and son. Neither did expository preaching, going verse by verse through a text. Both would take a key idea, or a memorable phrase or thought and milk it for all it was worth. And both had a penchant for finishing a sermon with a line or lines from a favorite hymn. They knew their Methodist audiences would know the source of most of those quotes or allusions. It is, however, right to ask the question how many of these sermons Kingsley actually heard, since the bulk of them seem to have been preached in the 1930s and ’40s, when he also was on the Methodist circuit, and not sitting in a congregation listening to his father. As for the sermons from the ’20s, he likely heard many of those before he went off to school at Shebbear. In any case, Fred Barrett was a remarkable preacher, and I trust you will find his sermons interesting, challenging, and edifying and not infrequently eloquent and even poetical.

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