Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers

by Charles Spurgeon

Publisher:

Fox River Press

, 2005

Overview

Charles Haddon Spurgeon is the most widely read and extensively quoted preacher in Christian history. Drawn from over 40,000 pages of Spurgeon’s own works, Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers is a collection of over 5,000 illustrations and anecdotes sorted under more than 1,000 topical headings. In this volume you will find heart-warming devotional reading, powerful illustrations for preaching and teaching and sound Biblical wisdom.

Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers is a helpful tool for both the pastor and the devotional reader. This book contains something for everyone, from wise counsel to calls to deeper faithfulness; from piercing illustrations to life-enriching maxims.

Key Features

• Over 5,000 illustrations, all original and unabridged.
• Quotes drawn from Spurgeon’s written works as well as his spoken words. This includes the entire 63-volume Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit series as well as 30 additional books he wrote.
• Over 1,000 headings and sub-topics.
• A synonym grouping appendix with forty-four main headings making searching for related synonymous illustrations easier.
• Three books in one, with Section One containing material of general interest and Section Two containing material of special interest to preachers, teachers, and ministry leaders. A third section with salvation illustrations and anecdotes is also included.
• A blend of one-liners, longer anecdotes, and extended illustrations.
• An extensive system of referencing the source materials for additional reading and study from the original writings.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The way to liberate our souls from the bonds that tie us to earth is to strengthen the cords that bind us to heaven” (Page 2)

“The more unfit you feel yourself to be, the more you are invited to come: your very unfitness is your fitness for coming to Jesus.” (Page 561)

“God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.” (Page 1)

“It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that his word should sustain us?” (Page 39)

“If hunger brings us to our knees it is more useful” (Page 326)

Praise for the Print Edition

Spurgeon was the master of the pithy quote. In fact, no author I have ever read is as quotable as Spurgeon. His published sermons as well as his books are a fertile source for ideas, expressions, illustrations, and axioms that help make biblical truth clear. I have on my shelves several anthologies of Spurgeon quotations. But none is as exhaustive, as carefully assembled, or as useful as this massive collection . . .

—Dr. John MacArthur

Product Details

• Title: Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers
• Editor: Kerry James Allen
• Publisher: Fox River Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 550

About Charles Spurgeon

C. H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) is one of the church’s most famous preachers and Christianity’s most prolific writers. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel and began his own ministry immediately, preaching more than 500 sermons by the age of 20. Logos has collected his sermons in The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.).

Spurgeon was the pastor of New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle). Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in 20 languages. Spurgeon is still known as the “Prince of Preachers” by Reformed Christians and Baptists.

Spurgeon founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College) in London. Dwight L. Moody was deeply influenced by Spurgeon’s preaching, and founded the Moody Bible Institute after seeing Spurgeon’s work at the Pastor’s College in London.

By the time of Spurgeon’s death in 1892, he had preached almost 3,600 sermons and published, also under the name Charles H. Spurgeon, 49 volumes of commentaries, along with numerous books of sayings, devotions, and more. The Charles Spurgeon Collection (149 vols.) contains over 3,550 sermons from this gifted speaker and leader and his most-loved works like The Treasury of David, Lectures to My Students, The Sword and Trowel, and dozens of other volumes. Also available from Logos is Spurgeon Commentary: Galatians, and the Spurgeon Sermon Upgrade Collection (2 vols.).