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Book Review: Spurgeon on Leadership

Charles Spurgeon is one of the best preachers in the history of the church and is arguably the best preacher of the last two centuries.  However, his expositional legacy is not the only thing that Spurgeon taught and left behind.  Larry J. Michael shows in Spurgeon on Leadership, that many of the leadership principles practiced …

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Book Review: The Soul Winner

As suggested in recent weeks, I’ve been reading some old books and one that I recently completed is The Soul Winner by C.H. Spurgeon. Spurgeon is of course recognized as the prince of preachers, but he was also a fiercly evangelistic man. Spurgeon of all people shows that strict reformed theology is not at odds …

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Monday Musing

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer’s heart is that which first has broken the preacher’s heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher. -Charles Spurgeon

Monday Musing: Cowardly Preachers

“I know of no surer way of a people’s perishing than by being led by one who does not speak out straight and honestly denounce evil. If the minister halts between two opinions, do you wonder that the congregation is undecided? If the preacher trims and twists to please all parties, can you expect his …

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Spurgeon on Church Growth

I heard of a report of a church, the other day, in which the minister, who was well known to have reduced his congregation to nothing somewhat cleverly wrote, “Our church is looking up.” When questioned with regard to this statement, he replied, Everybody knows that the church is on its back, and it cannot do anything else but look up.” When churches are looking up in that way, their pastors generally say that you cannot tabulate the work of the Spirit, and calculate the prosperity of a church by figures. The fact is, you can reckon very correctly if the figures are honest, and if all circumstances are taken into consideration: if there is no increase, you may calculate with considerable accuracy that there is not much being done; and if there is a cleare decrease among a growing population, you may reckon that the prayers of the people and the preaching of the minister are not of the most powerful kind.

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Spurgeon: A New Biography

Charles Spurgeon was, quite possibly, the most gifted preacher the world has ever known outside of Scripture.  In a time before microphones and air conditioning, Spurgeon was known to attract crowds of thousands and to faithfully preach to them the word of God, often begging for the conversion of sinners.  Would that God should raise …

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Thought For The Day

“Live like men who have something to live for; and preach like men to whom preaching is the highest exercise of their being” (Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, p. 273).