Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren doors and difficulties of human experience, unless he gets to this—that it is meant as training.
C. The Necessity to Carry Out This Conviction of the Purpose of Life in the Small Things.
If. ACALMING THOUGHT AS TO THE VARIETY OF GOD'S METHODS WITH US.
A. God's Loving Compulsion to Effort: "As the Eagle Stirreth Up
His Nest."
2. The method O} stirring uf e 0 are va ied—so A nes by | : prickings of man's conscience, sometimes by changes of circumstances, and _ oftentimes by sorrows.
3. The reason for stirring up the nest. We all shrink from change. What would we do if we had it not? We should stiffen into habits that would dwarf and weaken us. We all recoil from storms. What should we do if we vould become h C agnate, and Vv Ome Cavy and i I, if it was not for the wild west wind and the hurtling our changes and all our sorrows s ild be recognized as being what they are, loving summonses to effort. j
B. God's Hovering Presence: "F| uttereth Over His Young." It is a very beautiful word that is employed here which "flutter" scarcely gives us. It is the same that is used in the first chapter of Genesis, about the Spirit of - God "brooding on the face of the waters"; and it suggests how near, how all _ protecting, with expanded wings the Divine Father comes to the child whose restfulness He has disturbed.