The Gospel Trumpet

The Gospel Trumpet Gospel Trumpet is a non-profit organization that promotes biblical, Reformed Christianity through two ministries: radio broadcasts and sermon distribution.

The ministries are an outreach of the Heritage Reformed denomination of North America. The sermon distribution ministry consists of contemporary, Bible-based sermons by ministers of conservative Reformed denominations. Most of the writers are from the Heritage Reformed denomination. The sermons aim to address relevant topics in our day. Their goal is to glorify God, nurture and strengthen believer

s, and convict and win unbelievers to the cause of Christ. Three sermons are contained in each booklet sent out. They are printed as often as funds permit and then sent to thousands who have requested them. The radio preacher is Dr. Joel R. Beeke, president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Beeke is a worldwide conference speaker and prolific author. Presently, Dr. Beeke's sermons are aired each Sunday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Producing the sermon booklets and purchasing air-time for the radio ministry requires significant funds. By the grace of our LORD, we have some generous donors who support these ministries. If, however, you've been blessed by these ministries and feel that these ministries could be a blessing to others, please consider donating. We are a non-profit organization listed with the IRS and can therefore issue donation receipts to US taxpayers. Please visit our website to find links and information on how you can donate to the Gospel Trumpet.

08/25/2026

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the spoiler of civility, the destruction of reason, the brewer’s agent, the alehouse benefactor, his wife’s sorrow, his children’s trouble, his own shame, his neighbours’ scoff, a walking swill-bowl, the picture of a beast, and a monster of a man.”
John Dod, A Sermon on Malt, 6-7. [This is a ‘short and whimsical’ sermon that plays on the letters in the word ‘MALT,’ delivered by Dod as he was stopped in the street by some students. This ‘MALT’ sermon is also found in John Ashton’s, Humor, Wit & Satire of the Seventeenth Century. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883, 411-41. Although it is not attributed to John Dod. It is also referenced in Benjamin Brook’s, The Lives of the Puritans, Vol. 3, 6.]

08/24/2026

“There is little to be expected from man till deeply plunged [into affliction]. 1. He cannot pity others till experience hath taught him. 2. He will not be serviceable till afflictions have humbled and broken him. 3. He knows not how to comfort others till [he] himself hath been wounded and healed. But when he hath learned by experience, he can make his own plaister [cast or bandage] serve another man, and comfort him in the same affliction with the same consolation.”
Robert Harris, David’s Comfort at Ziklag, 7.

08/23/2026

“David says, ‘My times are in Thy hand’ (Ps. 31:15). If our times were in our own hand, we would have deliverance too soon; if they were in our enemy’s hand, we should have deliverance too late; but my times are in Thy hand; and God’s time is ever best. Everything is beautiful in its season: when the mercy is ripe, we shall have it."
Thomas Watson

08/22/2026

“Let not men and women pore too much upon their afflictions—that is, busy their thoughts too much to look down into their afflictions. You shall have many people that all their thoughts are taken up about what their crosses and afflictions are; they are altogether thinking and speaking of them; it is just with them as with a child that hath a sore about him, his finger is always upon the sore; and so men and women, their thoughts are always upon their afflictions;"
Jeremiah Burroughs

08/21/2026

“Euchedidascalus: What remedies have you against impatience in affliction?
Phileuches: I must meditate:
l. That naked I came into this world, and naked I must return again. Job 1:21.
2. I must remember the afflictions of Job, and what end God made of them. James 5:11.
3. That the patient abiding of the righteous shall be gladness. Prov. 10:28.

08/20/2026

“Atheism needs not be planted; you do enough to make your children such, if you do not endeavour to plant religion in their minds. The very neglect of the gardener to sow and dress his garden, gives advantage enough to the weeds to come up. This is the difference between religion and atheism; religion doth not grow without planting, but will die even where it is planted, without watering: atheism, irreligion, and profaneness, are weeds will grow without setting; but they will not die without plucking up.”
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor, 115.

08/20/2026

“An ambitious man undermines all others; if an enemy stands to resist him, he will make his way even through blood. He will also tread upon his friends to get to honour: a soul that is graciously ambitious, confiders what stands in his way, and hates father and mother, nay his own life; pulls out the right eye; even cuts, off his right hand, and offers violence to everything that stands betwixt him and his God.”
Richard Sibbes, Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations, 93.

08/14/2026

“It is a speech of Luther; saith he, ‘The sea of God's mercies should swallow up all our particular afflictions.’ Name any affliction that is upon thee, there is a sea of mercy to swallow it up. If you pour a pail-full of water on the floor of your house, it makes a great show; but if you throw it into the sea, there is no appearance of it: so afflictions, considered in themselves, we think are very great; but let them be considered with the sea of God’s mercies we do enjoy, then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.”
Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel, 77.

08/13/2026

“[T]here is no surer token of God’s fatherly love and care, than to be corrected with some cross, as oft as we commit any sinful crime. Affliction, therefore, is a seal of adoption, no sign of reprobation; for the purest corn is cleanest fanned, the finest gold is oftest tried, the sweetest grape is hardest pressed, and the truest Christian heaviest crossed.”
Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety, 273.

08/12/2026

“Your afflictions smell of the children’s care. The children of the house are so nurtured; and suffering is no new life, it is but the rent of the sons; bastards have not so much of the rent. Stay and wait on till Christ loose the knot that fasteneth his cross on your back; for he is coming to deliver. This school of suffering is a preparation for the King's higher house. O happy and blessed death, that golden bridge laid over by Christ my Lord between time's clay banks and heaven's shore!”
Samuel Rutherford, A Garden of Spices, 88.

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