Christian History Magazine—Issue 29: Charles Spurgeon: England’s “Prince of Preachers”
Overview
“I take my text and make a bee-line to the cross,” said Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the Victorian Englishman who reached over 10 million people with his sermons. He was not an original thinker, nor did he claim to be a theologian. Spurgeon preached. He spoke to ordinary men and women in compelling yet commonsensical language. Learn from his strong words, his noble actions, and his lifelong sufferings as recounted in this issue of Christian History & Biography.
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Top Highlights
“‘Laid Aside. Why?’ Spurgeon answered his own question by concluding that such times are ‘the surest way to teach us that we are not necessary to God’s work, and that when we are most useful he can easily do without us.’” (source)
“‘The way to stronger faith usually lies along the rough pathway of sorrow,’ he said. ‘… I am afraid that all the grace that I have got out of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable.… Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.’” (source)
“‘As long as I trace my pain to accident, my bereavement to mistake, my loss to another’s wrong, my discomfort to an enemy, and so on, I am of the earth, earthy, and shall break my teeth with gravel stones; but when I rise to my God and see his hand at work, I grow calm, I have not a word of repining.’” (source)
“In the Puritans’ writings, Spurgeon found three things he thought were in short supply in contemporary evangelicalism: rigorous theology, warm spirituality, and down-to-earth practicality.” (source)
“Three doctrines, Spurgeon said, were being abandoned: biblical infallibility, substitutionary atonement, and the finality of judgment for those who died outside Christ.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 29: Charles Spurgeon: England’s “Prince of Preachers”
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 1991
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon), 1834-1892
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.29
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:39:13Z