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Charles Spurgeon

The Apostle Paul’s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell

April 12, 2011
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Now that Rob Bell’s controversial book Love Wins is on sale on both sides of the Atlantic and many other comments have been made, I am feeling like I cannot avoid engaging in the controversy, or at least should read some more material to understand it better. I did not seek out such involvement, as [...]

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The folly of imagining hell is not real and sin is not deadly – Spurgeon

April 7, 2011

“The sinner is a fool, because he is told in God’s word that the path of evil will lead to destruction, and yet he pursues it with the secret hope that in his case the damage will not be very great. He has been warned that sin is like a cup frothing with a foam [...]

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10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan

March 14, 2011

As Japan braces itself for a possible further serious earthquake, and deals with the consequences of such massive devastation caused by the last one, not to mention the risk of a major nuclear incident, how should Christians respond? Please understand that none of this is intended to claim that we have all the answers to [...]

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Ministers need to be filled with the Holy Spirit – Spurgeon

February 7, 2011

Spurgeon spent a whole sermon arguing for the desperate need of the preacher to be annointed of the Holy Spirit in order that souls may be saved. We would do well to listen and be inspired to cry out to God for greater fullness of the Spirit on our leaders: There is a necessity that [...]

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Do you despise authority?

February 2, 2011

It is very easy to despise authority without even realizing that you are doing so. Especially living in our modern world which emphasizes independence and being a “self-made man”. In the quote below which follows a crucial verse that stresses the importance of leadership, Spurgeon says it well. A self-made man is a failure by [...]

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Pray or be impatient! (Spurgeon)

January 27, 2011

I trust that you will be as challenged by the following quote as I was. I am just beginning to learn this lesson. I wish I could have grasped it when I was a lot younger. It would have saved me lots of pain. Prayer truly is the most important thing that I can be [...]

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The highest of the mountains

January 26, 2011

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up [...]

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Giving Spurgeon the last word on Arminianism and Calvinism

December 14, 2010

At least for now it is time to call time on my short series on Arminianism and Calvinism. I hope you have enjoyed reading it, as I have certainly enjoyed some of the reactions it led to.  I shared this quote a few years ago, and I thought it was an apt way to end: [...]

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Was Spurgeon an Arminocalvinist?

November 18, 2010

I found the following quote initially on Solo Christo , but thanks to Logos Bible Software I was able to find more context for it. It turns out that on some matters Spurgeon was not the rabid Calvinist some people think him to be: There has long been a great doctrinal discussion between the Calvinists [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Ten – Conversion is typically an emotional experience

September 30, 2010

Spurgeon argued yesterday that often feelings come before faith, (having previously denied it!).  In today’s quote after carefully reminding us that not every conversion is a “typical” one he goes on to tell us how he feels the typical conversion occurs: Some men have the light of God; but they cannot tell when the light [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Nine – Spurgeon suggests experience comes before knowledge after all

September 29, 2010

Today’s quote from Spurgeon demonstrates that the man believed two points that many today would disagree with.  Firstly, he argues that intellectual assent to the gospel is insufficient for salvation, indeed that it may make you more worthy of damnation. Secondly, he seems to suggest that experience may well need to come first before faith. [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Four – Spurgeon on Sealing and Faith

September 17, 2010

In today’s quote Spurgeon introduces the vital concept of “sealing” or assurance of our faith and relates it ultimately to the line from our hymn: Note also that this sealing does not necessarily come at once with faith. It grows out of faith, and comes “after that ye believed.” We are not in every case [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Three – Spurgeon on how feelings do not produce faith

September 16, 2010

Our third quote in this little series, makes the very important point that however precious our experiences of God might be, a warm glowing feeling inside us never actually produces faith.  Some of my readers might be surprised to know that I wholeheartedly agree. Faith on the other hand, DOES produce feelings, as in the [...]

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C.H. Spurgeon on the exclusivity of the truth

August 9, 2010

Today’s guest post comes to us from C.H. Spurgeon. These are previously unpublished words taken from notes of a sermon delivered on a Lord’s Day evening in 1856, at New Park Street. Notes taken by Pastor T.W. Medhurst. John 14.6 – ‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way… no man cometh unto the Father, [...]

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New Spurgeon Sermons

January 31, 2010
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Phil Johnson describes the release of a volume of previously unpublished sermons from the undisputed prince of preachers.  Pray that God will raise up men like this to declare boldly his word, going after lost souls and complacent saints in the same message.  His was a voice you simply couldn’t ignore. Out of love for [...]

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God Breaks Those He Wants To Make Great

October 18, 2009

Spurgeon is at his best in the following quote. He speaks about the way in which God likes to bring people to the very end of themselves before taking ahold of them and using them for his glory: Is it not a curious thing that whenever God means to make a man great, He always [...]

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Spurgeon On Second (& Third, Forth and Fifth) Blessings

October 6, 2009

Had a great email from a reader of my blog in Asia which I reproduce with permission in its entirety: I’m a faithful reader of your blog and a missionary in China. Thanks for being a place to go over the last couple years as God has increased my desire to “have it all“. I’ve [...]

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Christ Himself – The Gospel Coalition Blog

October 3, 2009

From Christ Himself – The Gospel Coalition Blog: “Our faith is a person; the gospel that we have to preach is a person; and go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach, for our gospel is a person. If you had asked the twelve Apostles in their day, ‘What do you [...]

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Spurgeon Atonement Illustration

August 28, 2009

This would win the wrath of many neo-liberals but I am sure that Piper would be glad to make room this Friday for the following quote I found on the pyromaniacs site from C.H. Spurgeon: Suppose,” said I, “you had killed some one. You were a murderer; you were condemned to die, and you deserved [...]

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Spurgeon – We Know Jesus Rose From the Dead, Because the Spirit Tells Us So.

April 10, 2009

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. So it seems appropriate to share a quote today from Spurgeon. This is in my forthcoming book “Raised With Christ, How the Resurrection Changes Everything.” In an age of human pride, it is sad how much a purely intellectual approach to faith has infiltrated the church. It is also sad that [...]

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