Posts Tagged ‘Spurgeon’
Going Home
Delivered on Sunday morning, December 21, 1856, by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon Republished in FrontLine • November/December 1999. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. “Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.”—Mark 5:19 The case of the man…
Read MoreSweet Fruit From A Thorny Tree
Charles Spurgeon At times when our heavenly Father weighs out to us a portion of wormwood and gall in the form of bloody pain, we very naturally ask the reason why. Human nature at times asks the question in petulance and gets no answer. Faith asks with bated breath and gains a gracious reply. Our…
Read MoreBring the Books: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
Mark Minnick Will anyone ever know how many biographies of Charles Haddon Spurgeon have been issued? Lewis Drummond, who authored the massive Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers, lists nearly 40 in his bibliography, including the autobiography that Spurgeon himself started and his wife and secretary, Joseph Harrald, completed.
Read MoreA. T. Pierson on the London Tabernacle
Submitted by John Mincy “This Metropolitan Tabernacle is a house of prayer most emphatically,” Dr. Pierson writes. “Here are numerous rooms, under and around the great audience-room, where for almost forty years this one servant of God has held forth the Word of Life; and in these rooms prayer is almost ceaselessly going up. When…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (3)
A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ This is Part Three Pastor Minnick’s introductory paragraphs, repeated from part One: At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (2)
A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick Part One ♦ This is Part Two ♦ Part Three Pastor Minnick’s introductory paragraphs, repeated from part One: At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by…
Read MoreNot an Atom More of Sacred Service (1)
A week in the life of Charles Spurgeon Mark Minnick This is Part One ♦ Part Two ♦ Part Three At his death in 1892 at the age of just fifty-seven, C. H. Spurgeon left behind a church numbering in the thousands, a Sunday school attended by over 8,000 and taught by some 600 instructors,…
Read MoreThe Preacher’s Dark Secret (Spurgeon)
Spurgeon called it the “Minister’s Fainting Fits” in his classic Lectures to My Students. It is, yes I will use the word, the depression that preacher’s sometimes face. It is deep, miserable and desperate. It keeps him awake through the night in anguish of soul. He dare not talk of it to church members or…
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