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Faith Appropriating – Charles H Spurgeon

Faith Appropriating – Charles H Spurgeon I once heard a father tell, that when he removed his family to a new residence, where the accommodation was much more ample, and the substance much more rich and varied than that to which they had previously been accustomed, his youngest son, yet a lisping infant, ran round […]

Cuttle Fish Persons Who Resemble A – Charles H Spurgeon

Cuttle Fish Persons Who Resemble A – Charles H Spurgeon It was an old Pythagorean maxim, ‘Sepiam ne edito,’ ‘never eat the cuttle-fish.’ The cuttle-fish has the power of emitting a black liquid which dyes the water and enables it to conceal itself. Have nothing to do with those who darken all around them that […]

Covetousness Its Insidiousness – Charles H Spurgeon

Covetousness Its Insidiousness – Charles H Spurgeon Beware of growing covetousness, for of all sins this is one of the most insidious. It is like the stream of a river. As the stream comes down from the land, it brings with it sand and earth, and deposits these at its mouth, so that by degrees, […]

Covetousness – Charles H Spurgeon

Covetousness – Charles H Spurgeon Covetous men must be the sport of Satan, for their grasping avarice neither lets them enjoy life nor escape from the second death. They are held by their own greed as surely as beasts with cords, or fish with nets, or men with chains. They may be likened to those […]

Courage Strengthened By Past Deliverances – Charles H Spurgeon

Courage Strengthened By Past Deliverances – Charles H Spurgeon Sir Francis Drake, being in a dangerous storm in the Thames, was heard to say, ‘Must I who have escaped the rage of the ocean, be drowned in a ditch?’ Will you, experienced saints, who have passed through a world of tribulation lie down and die […]

Corruptions Vitality Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Vitality Of – Charles H Spurgeon The yew tree appears to renew itself out of its own decay the decayed wood at the centre of an old yew is gradually formed into rich vegetable mould, and fresh verdure spring: from it. How like is this to our inward corruptions, which have a marvelous, vitality, […]

Corruptions Seen Even In Solitude – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Seen Even In Solitude – Charles H Spurgeon George Shadfoed wrote:: ‘One day a friend took me to see a hermit in the woods. After some difficulty we found his hermitage, which was a little place like a hog-sty, built of several pieces of wood, covered with bark of trees, and his bed consisted […]

Corruptions Strengthened By Habit – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Strengthened By Habit – Charles H Spurgeon In preparing places for planting new trees, the diggers found it needful in certain spots to lay aside the spade and use the pick-axe. In those positions there had been a well travelled carriage road, and hence it was hard to deal with it. How often, when […]

Corruptions Overcome Gradually – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Overcome Gradually – Charles H Spurgeon When Sir Christopher Wren was engaged in demolishing the ruins of old St. Paul’s in order to make room for his new cathedral, he used a battering ram with which thirty men continued to beat upon a part of the wall for a whole day. The workmen, not […]

Corruptions Overcome By Grace – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Overcome By Grace – Charles H Spurgeon My gardeners were removing a large tree which grew near a wall, and as it would weaken the wall to stub up the roots, it was agreed that the stump should remain in the ground. But how were we to prevent the stump from sprouting, and so […]

Corruptions Indulgence Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Indulgence Of – Charles H Spurgeon The man of the world in the olden time bowed to the fallen statue of Jupiter, by way of bespeaking the favour of the god in the event of his being again lifted on his pedestal What are those provisions for the flesh, which too many Christians so […]

Corruptions Hated By The Saints – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Hated By The Saints – Charles H Spurgeon When Venice was in the hands of the Austrians, those alien tyrants swarmed in every quarter; but the Venetians hated them to the last degree, and showed their enmity upon all occasions. When the Austrian officers sat down at any of the tables in the square […]

Corruptions Hard To Die – Charles H Spurgeon

Corruptions Hard To Die – Charles H Spurgeon A cat once sprang at my lips while I was talking, and bit me savagely. My friend in whose house it occurred, decreed that the poor creature should die. The sentence he executed personally, to the best of his ability, and threw the carcass away. To his […]

Conviction Of Sin – Charles H Spurgeon

Conviction Of Sin – Charles H Spurgeon There is something to be learned from the conduct of the Papists to our sires. If any poor wretch recanted and so escaped the fire, they were accustomed to make him carry a fagot at the next burning, as if to let him see what he had escaped, […]

Conversion (Sudden) Not All Genuine – Charles H Spurgeon

Conversion (Sudden) Not All Genuine – Charles H Spurgeon Fish sometimes leap out of the water with great energy, but it would be foolish to conclude that they have left the liquid element for ever, in a moment they are swimming again as if they had never forsaken the stream; indeed, it was but a […]

Conversion A Complete Surrender – Charles H Spurgeon

Conversion A Complete Surrender – Charles H Spurgeon When Henry VIII. had determined to make himself head of the English Church, he insisted upon it that convocation should accept his headship without limiting and modifying clauses. He refused to entertain any compromises, and vowed that ‘he would have no tantums’ as he called them. Thus […]

Conversion A Radical Change – Charles H Spurgeon

Conversion A Radical Change – Charles H Spurgeon I passed by a piece of common which some lord of the manor or other had been enclosing, as those rascals always will if they can, to rob the poor of their rights, and filch every morsel of green grass upon which we may freely plant our […]

Conversation Edifying – Charles H Spurgeon

Conversation Edifying – Charles H Spurgeon The Spaniards in Chili believed that no water was so wholesome or of so delicate a flavour as that which flowed through veins of gold; certainly no conversation is so edifying to the hearers as that which pours forth from a heart stored with sacred knowledge, sanctified experience, devout […]

Conversation – Charles H Spurgeon

Conversation – Charles H Spurgeon In Andrew Fuller’s diary is the following entry:–’Jan. 3, 1782. This afternoon being on a visit, as I stepped aside from the company, I overheard one of them saying, ‘I love Mr. Fuller’s company, it is so diverting,’ This expression moved me much. Oh, wretch that I am! Is this […]

Contentment – Charles H Spurgeon

Contentment – Charles H Spurgeon Making a day’s excursion from Botzen in the Tyrol, we went along the very narrowest of road’s, mere alleys, to which our country lanes would be turnpike roads. Well, you may be sure that we did not engage an ordinary broad carriage, for that would have found the passage as […]

Consistency 2 Charles H Spurgeon

Consistency 2 Charles H Spurgeon ‘I shall not attend Sabbath school any more,’ said a young girl to one of her class. ‘Why not?’ asked her friend. ‘Because my mother is going to send me to the dancing school, and I think it very inconsistent to attend both at the same time.’ Children are sure […]

Consistency – Charles H Spurgeon

Consistency – Charles H Spurgeon Milton excuses Oliver Cromwell’s want of bookish application in his youth thus:–’It did not become that hand to wax soft in literary ease which was to be inured to the use of arms and hardened with asperity; that right arm to be softly wrapped up among the birds of Athens, […]

Consecration – Charles H Spurgeon

Consecration – Charles H Spurgeon Travelers have said that they have discovered gardens of Solomon, which were of old enclosed as private places wherein the king walked in solitude; and they have also found wells of a most deliciously cold water, dexterously covered, so that no person unacquainted with the stone in the wall, which […]

Conscience Hardening Charles H Spurgeon

Conscience Hardening Charles H Spurgeon It is a very terrible thing to let conscience begin to grow hard, for it soon chills into northern iron and steel. It is like the freezing of a pond. The first film of ice is scarcely perceptible; keep the water stirring and you will prevent the frost from hardening […]

Communion Of The Saints – Charles H Spurgeon

Communion Of The Saints – Charles H Spurgeon Communion is strength, solitude is weakness. Alone, the fine old beech yields to the blast, and lies prone upon the sward: in the forest, supporting each other, the trees laugh at the hurricane. The sheep of Jesus flock together; the social element is the genius of Christianity. […]

Communion With God Power Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Communion With God Power Of – Charles H Spurgeon In driving piles, a machine is used by which a huge weight is lifted up and then made to fall upon the head of the pile. Of course the higher the weight is lifted the more powerful is the blow which it gives when it descends. […]

Communion With Christ Joy Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Communion With Christ Joy Of – Charles H Spurgeon No sooner do you pass the brow of the St. Gothard pass, on your way to Italy, than you perceive that, beyond all question, you are on the sunny side of the Alps. The snow lying there is nothing in comparison to the vast accumulation upon […]

Communion With Christ Its Influence On Our Views – Charles H Spurgeon

Communion With Christ Its Influence On Our Views – Charles H Spurgeon When you have been sitting in a well-lighted room and are suddenly called into the outer darkness, how black it seems; and thus when a mam has dwelt in communion with God, sin becomes exceeding sinful, and the darkness in which the world […]

Coming To Christ As A Sinner (2) – Charles H Spurgeon

Coming To Christ As A Sinner (2) – Charles H Spurgeon In one of the coal-pits of the north, while a considerable number of the miners were dawn below, the top of the pit fell in, and the shaft was completely blocked up. Those who were in the mine, gathered to a spot where the […]

Coming To Christ As A Sinner – Charles H Spurgeon

Coming To Christ As A Sinner – Charles H Spurgeon A great monarch was accustomed on certain set occasions for all the beggars of the city. Around him were placed beggars, all clothed in rich apparel; the beggars sat at the table in their rags of poverty. Now it came to pass, a certain day, […]

Circumstances – Charles H Spurgeon

Circumstances – Charles H Spurgeon Horace Smith truly and wittily remarks, ‘If a letter were to be addressed to that most influential word, circumstances, concluding thus: ‘I am, sir, your very obedient humble servant,’ the greater part of the world might subscribe it without deviating from the strictest veracity.’ Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Church To Be Forged – Charles H Spurgeon

Church To Be Forged – Charles H Spurgeon When Oliver Cromwell was about to turn the Members of Parliament out of their chamber, he pointed to the mace, and cried, ‘Take away that bauble!’ When HE shall come, who will effectually purge the church, he will say much the same of many ecclesiastical ornaments, now […]

Church Her Glory In Tribulation – Charles H Spurgeon

Church Her Glory In Tribulation – Charles H Spurgeon One will at a certain hour of a bright day be surprised to see a rainbow making an entire circle, surrounding the fall like a coronet of gems, or a ring set with all the brilliants of the jeweller. Every hue is there. We saw two […]

Christian’s Life The Power Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Christian’s Life The Power Of – Charles H Spurgeon There is a spot on the Lago Lugano, where the song of the nightingale swells sweetly from the thickets on the shore in matchless rush of music, so that the oar lies motionless and the listeners hushed into silent enhancement; yet we did not see a […]

Christian What He Should Be – Charles H Spurgeon

Christian What He Should Be – Charles H Spurgeon A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Christian A Royal Personage – Charles H Spurgeon

Christian A Royal Personage – Charles H Spurgeon A poor but pious woman called upon two elegant young ladies, who, regardless of her poverty, invited her to sit down with them in the drawing-room, and entered into conversation with her upon religious subjects. While thus employed, their brother, a dashing youth, by chance entered, and […]

Christian Professor Cannot Be Neutral – Charles H Spurgeon

Christian Professor Cannot Be Neutral – Charles H Spurgeon It appears that Themistocles, when a boy, was full of spirit and fire, quick of apprehension, naturally inclined to bold attempts, and likely to make a great statesman. His hours of leisure and vacation he spent not, like other boys, in idleness and play, but he […]

Christian Manifest By His Life – Charles H Spurgeon

Christian Manifest By His Life – Charles H Spurgeon Longfellow in his Hiawatha sings of: ‘The pleasant watercourses, You could trace them through the valley, By the rushing in the Spring-time, By the alders in the Summer, By the white fog in the Autumn, By the black line in the Winter.’ So traceable are the […]

Christ With Us In Trial – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ With Us In Trial – Charles H Spurgeon One thing which contributed to make Caesar’s soldier invincible was their seeing him always take his share of danger, and never desire any exemption from labor and fatigue. We have a far higher incentive in the war for truth and goodness when we consider him who […]

Christ Welcoming Sinners – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Welcoming Sinners – Charles H Spurgeon We are told that in stormy weather it is not unusual for small birds to be blown out of sight of land on to the sea. They are often seen by voyagers out of their reckoning and far from the coast, hovering over the masts on weary wings […]

Christ Trophies Of His Power – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Trophies Of His Power – Charles H Spurgeon Before many a Popish shrine on the Continent one sees exhibited a great variety of crutches, together with wax models of arms, legs, and other limbs. These are supposed to represent the cures wrought by devotion at that altar; the memorials of the healing power of […]

Christ The Preacher’s Great Theme – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ The Preacher’s Great Theme – Charles H Spurgeon The best sermon is that which is fullest of Christ, A Welsh minister, when preaching at the chapel of my dear brother Jonathan George, was saying that Christ was the sum and substance of the gospel, and he broke out into the following story:–A young man […]

Christ The Preacher’s Theme – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ The Preacher’s Theme – Charles H Spurgeon The pulpit is intended to be a pedestal for the cross, though, alas! even the cross itself, it is to be feared, is sometimes used as a mere pedestal for the preacher’s fame. We may roll the thunders of eloquence, we may dart the coruscations of genius, […]

Christ Sympathy With His People – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Sympathy With His People – Charles H Spurgeon ‘If,’ says Augustine, ‘a man should come up to embrace thee, to kiss and honour thee upward, and beneath with a pair of shoes beaten full of nails, tread upon thy bare foot; the head shall despise the honor done unto it, and for the foot […]

Christ Riches Of His Grace – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Riches Of His Grace – Charles H Spurgeon Sir Richard Whittington entertained King Henry V. at the Guildhall with unparalleled magnificence. The braziers in the hall were supplied with logs of rare, sweet-scented wood for fuel; but they burned with a far more delicious fragrance when the noble citizen bringing forth the king’s bonds […]

Christ Our Only Rest – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Our Only Rest – Charles H Spurgeon My heart can have no rest, unless it leans on Jesus Christ wholly, and then it feels his peace. But I am apt to leave my resting-place, and when I ramble from it, my heart will quickly brew up mischief. Some evil temper now begins to boil, […]

Christ Our Only Hope – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Our Only Hope – Charles H Spurgeon On a huge cross by the side of an Italian highway hung a hideous caricature of the Beloved of our souls, who poured out his life for our redemption. Out of reverence to the living Christ we turned aside, disgusted from the revolting image, but not until […]

Christ Jesus The Marrow Of Theology – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Jesus The Marrow Of Theology – Charles H Spurgeon The late venerable and godly Dr. Archibald Alexander, of Princeton, United States, had been a preacher of Christ for sixty years, and a professor of divinity for forty. He died on the 22nd October, 1851. On his death-bed, he was heard to say to a […]

Christ The Soul’s Only Defence – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ The Soul’s Only Defence – Charles H Spurgeon There is an ancient parable which says that the dove once made a piteous complaint to her fellow birds, that the hawk was a most cruel tyrant, and was thirsting for her blood. One counseled her to keep below–but the hawk can stoop for its prey; […]

Christ Love Of Proved – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ Love Of Proved – Charles H Spurgeon In the French revolution, a young man was condemned to the guillotine, and shut up in one of the prisons. He was greatly loved by many, but there was one who loved him more than all put together. How know we this? It was his own father, […]

Christ To Be Followed Above All – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ To Be Followed Above All – Charles H Spurgeon In a letter of Abelard to Eloisa, the following paragraph occurs:–’I will be no philosopher, if so be I must needs fight against St. Paul; I will be no Aristotle, if so be I be separated from Christ.’ If all students were thus resolved to […]

Christ His Eye Our Stimulus – Charles H Spurgeon

Christ His Eye Our Stimulus – Charles H Spurgeon There is a touching fact related in a history of a Highland chief, of the noble house of M’Gregor, who fell wounded by two balls, at the battle of Prestonpans. Seeing their chief fall, the clan wavered, and gave the enemy an advantage. The old chieftain, […]

Children Their Future – Charles H Spurgeon

Children Their Future – Charles H Spurgeon In the early French revolution, the schoolboys of Bourges, from twelve to seventeen years of age, formed themselves into Band of Hope. They wore a uniform, and were taught drill. On their holidays, their flag was unfurled, displaying in shining letters the sentence: ‘Tremelez, Tyrans, Nous grandirons!’ (Tremble, […]

Children Perseverance Heeded In Teaching – Charles H Spurgeon

Children Perseverance Heeded In Teaching – Charles H Spurgeon In dibbling beans the old practice was to put three in each hole: one for the worm, one for the crow, and one to live and produce the crop. In teaching children, we must give line upon line, and precept upon precept, repeating the truth which […]

Charity Spies Out The Good Points In All – Charles H Spurgeon

Charity Spies Out The Good Points In All – Charles H Spurgeon Mr. Jameson says, ‘The following beautiful epilogue had a powerful effect on my mind;’–’Jesus,’ says the story, ‘arrived one evening at the gates of a certain city, and he sent his disciples forward to prepare supper while he himself, intent on doing good, […]

Change Love Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Change Love Of – Charles H Spurgeon It will be found that they are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love variety and change; for the weakest-minded are those who both wonder most at things new, and digest worst things old; in so far that everything they have lies rusty, and loses lustre […]

Censoriousness Who Most Guilty Of – Charles H Spurgeon

Censoriousness Who Most Guilty Of – Charles H Spurgeon Pedley, who was a well-known natural simpleton, was wont to say, ‘God help the fool.’ None are more ready to pity the folly of others than those who have a small share of wit themselves. ‘There is no love among Christians’ cries the man who is […]

Casual Security – Charles H Spurgeon

Casual Security – Charles H Spurgeon A number of men are upstairs in a house, amusing themselves with a game of cards. What is that? The window is red! What is that cry in the streets?’ The house is on fire!’ says one.’ Oh,’ answers another, ‘shuffle the cards again, let us finish the game; […]

Crime Is Not a Disease

Crime Is Not a Disease In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a 17-year study involving thousands of hours of clinical testing of 250 inmates here in the District of Columbia. To […]

Christ Gives Freedom

Christ Gives Freedom Above the entrance to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany were the words Arbeit Macht Frei. The words mean “Work makes free.” It was a boldfaced lie suggesting that if the prisoners worked hard, they would be given liberty. The promised freedom was a horrifying death. Many people believe that if they do […]

Converted through President Wolsey’s Singing

Converted through President Wolsey’s Singing When D. L. Moody visited New Haven in 1878, R. A. Torrey was a student in the University there. He said, “The ripest scholar in the University at the time, if not the ripest in America, was President Wolsey, Ex-President of Yale University. One night a young man went up […]

Christ Is Alive

Christ Is Alive A Hindoo fakir, with matted hair and ash-besmeared body, was sitting under a tree in deep meditation. His eyes fell on the leaves of a torn book which someone had tossed away. It was part of the New Testament. He smoothed out the crumpled pages, and read words which brought strange comfort […]

Celebrity or Servant?

Celebrity or Servant? From July 26 to August 7, 1971, the eyes of millions of Americans were on the Apollo 15 moon mission. You may remember the astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin, who landed on the moon and spent eighteen of their sixty-six hours there outside the spacecraft. They covered over seventeen […]

Christ Is Our Representative

Christ Is Our Representative “When Jesus died, He died as my representative, and I died in Him; when He arose, He rose as my representative, and I arose in Him; when He ascended up on high and took His place at the right hand of the Father in the glory, He ascended as my representative […]

Choose Your Words Carefully

Choose Your Words Carefully President Calvin Coolidge was famously known as a man of few words. His nickname was “Silent Cal.” His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, told the story of a young woman who sat next to her husband at a dinner party. She told Coolidge she had a bet with a friend that she […]

Majesty and Meekness in Christ – Charles Spurgeon

Majesty and Meekness in Christ – Charles Spurgeon LOVING-KINDNESS and tender mercy are drawn in their golden chariot by the noble steeds of omnipotence and wisdom. Heroes who have been most distinguished for fury in the fight have been tender of heart as little children; sharp were their swords to the foe, but gentle their […]

Confessing a Bank Robbery

Confessing a Bank Robbery In May of 1948 three men robbed a bank in Hoyt, Kansas, getting away with $1,000. Shortly thereafter two men were killed in a car wreck, and police thought they were the robbers and the case was closed. Four years later, however, something unusual happened. On a Sunday morning at the […]

Can You Love Sin?

Can You Love Sin? “If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I … daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother’s heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? […]

Christ Is All That Matters

Christ Is All That Matters Joni Erickson Tada had a terrible accident that left her a quadriplegic. In spite of her physical limitations she became an accomplished author and artist. Over 25 years ago she married her husband, Ken. For her wedding she had planned to come down the center aisle in her motorized wheel […]

Chapman’s Burden

Chapman’s Burden One morning R.C. Chapman, a devout Christian, was asked how he was feeling. “I’m burdened this morning!” was his reply. But his happy countenance contradicted his words. So the questioner exclaimed in surprise, “Are you really burdened, Mr. Chapman?” “Yes, but it’s a wounderful burden–it’s an overabundance of blessings for which I cannot […]

Charles Spurgeon on Joy

Charles Spurgeon on Joy “There is a marvelous medicinal power in joy. Most medicines are distasteful; but this, which is the best of all medicines, is sweet to the taste, and comforting to the heart. This blessed joy is very contagious. One dolorous spirit brings a kind of plague into the house; one person who […]

Cheap Vacation

Cheap Vacation Even with escalating gas prices, Ward still took his family for a long trek out to California and up the Pacific coast. When he returned, friends were eager to hear how it turned out. Ward couldn’t have been more pleased. He said they made it all the way to Los Angeles before a […]

Changing Love

Changing Love The story of is told of a girl who regretted breaking her engagement and wrote this letter: “Dearest Tommy, No words could ever express the great unhappiness I’ve felt since breaking our engagement. Please say you’ll take me back. No one could ever take your place in my heart, so please forgive me. […]

Credit Card Humor

Credit Card Humor A man once said his credit card was stolen, but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did. A wife was reading the mail to husband. She said, “This little note came with your credit card bill. It says leave home without it.” Facebook […]

Chocolate Tasting

Chocolate Tasting One of England’s most exclusive grocery stores, Fortnum & Mason in London’s Piccadilly, advertised for a new chocolate taster, including a salary of $54,000 a year. This dream job consisted of traveling the world, sampling as much chocolate as possible, and selecting the very best for the store’s discerning customers. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest […]

Closed Communication

Closed Communication Husband to wife as he turns on the first football game of the year: “Is there anything you want to say before the season starts?” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Counsel Hotline

Counsel Hotline A counseling center hotline used the following voice mail message: “Thank you for calling. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6. If you are paranoid-delusional, remember that we […]

Carving the Turkey

Carving the Turkey At Thanksgiving dinner one wife said, “Who wants to carve the turkey?” Her father said, “You carve him, you married him.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Conquering Jealousy

Conquering Jealousy F. B. Meyer held meetings in Northfield, Massachusetts and large crowds thronged to hear him. Then G. Campbell Morgan came to Northfield and people flocked to hear his brilliant expositions of Scripture. Meyer confessed that at first he was envious. He said, “The only way I can conquer my feelings is to pray for Morgan daily, […]

Churchill on Popularity

Churchill on Popularity Winston Churchill was once asked, “Doesn’t it thrill you to know that every time you make a speech, the hall is packed to overflowing?” “It’s quite flattering,” replied Winston, “But whenever I feel that way, I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd […]

Charles Spurgeon on the Need for God’s Power

Charles Spurgeon on the Need for God’s Power “Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without the wind, branches without sap, and like coals without fire, we are useless.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Eloquence unnecessary to Commend the Gospel – Charles Spurgeon

Eloquence unnecessary to Commend the Gospel – Charles Spurgeon I SAW in Paris, years ago, a public vendor of quack medicines, and an extraordinary personage he was. He came riding into the market-place with a fine chariot drawn by horses richly caparisoned, while a trumpet was sounded before him. This mighty healer of all diseases […]

Churches Don’t Die that Way

Churches Don’t Die that Way A minister whose heart was aglow with missionary zeal gave notice to his congregation that in the evening an offering would be taken for missions, and he asked for liberal gifts. A selfish, well-to-do man in the congregation met the preacher before the evening service and said, “You are going […]

Choking on a Coin

Choking on a Coin A man on vacation was strolling along outside his hotel. Suddenly, he was attracted by the screams of a woman kneeling in front of a child. The man knew enough to determine that the child had swallowed a coin. Seizing the child by the heels, the man held him up, gave […]

Curse of Sin gone – Charles Spurgeon

Curse of Sin gone – Charles Spurgeon SINCE our Lord Jesus Christ has taken away the curse due to sin, a great rock has been lifted out from the river-bed of God’s mercy, and the living stream comes rippling, rolling, swelling on in crystal tides, sweeping before it all human sin and sorrow, and making […]

Curse put away by the Cross – Charles Spurgeon

Curse put away by the Cross – Charles Spurgeon O UNHAPPY men, unhappy men, who are under God’s curse today! You may dress yourselves in scarlet and fine linen, you may go to your feasts, and drain your full bowls of wine; you may lift high the sparkling cup, and whirl in the joyous dance, […]

Cross, The—The place for Worship – Charles Spurgeon

Cross, The—The place for Worship – Charles Spurgeon FROM nature up to nature’s God is well, but from grace to the God of grace is the more sure and easy way. I have never worshiped even in the presence of Mont Blanc, or amid the crash of thunder, as I have at the foot of […]

Cross, The—Revealing the Glory of God – Charles Spurgeon

Cross, The—Revealing the Glory of God – Charles Spurgeon IF any created mind would gladly see the glory of God, he need not gaze upon the starry skies, nor soar into the Heaven of heavens, he has but to bow at the cross foot, and watch the crimson streams which gush from Immanuel’s wounds. If […]

Cross, The—Revealing Love – Charles Spurgeon

Cross, The—Revealing Love – Charles Spurgeon STANDING, as it were, at the world’s end, at the grave’s mouth, and at hell’s door, the cross of Jesus reveals love to the utmost end, and is a grand display of the immutability and invincibility of the affection of the heart of Jesus. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Cross, The—Arresting Passion – Charles Spurgeon

Cross, The—Arresting Passion – Charles Spurgeon THE stripes of Jesus, when well considered, arrest spiritual disorder. The man is brought to view his Lord as suffering for him, and a voice says to his rising lusts, “Hitherto shall you come, but no further. Here at Calvary shall your proud waves be stayed.” My feet had […]

Critical Hearers, Warning of – Charles Spurgeon

Critical Hearers, Warning of – Charles Spurgeon AH, dear hearer, beware of head knowledge without heart knowledge; beware of being so orthodox as to set yourself up as a judge of the preacher, and to refuse to be obedient to the truth. Beware of saying, “Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, that is very applicable to […]

Critical Christians – Charles Spurgeon

Critical Christians – Charles Spurgeon YOU shall usually find that the sharpest critics are those who never write; and the best judges of battles those who keep at a prudent distance from the guns. Christians of the kid-gloved order, who never make an attempt to save souls, are marvelously quick to tell us when we […]

Covetousness and Liberality – Charles Spurgeon

Covetousness and Liberality – Charles Spurgeon THERE is nothing in this world but lives by giving, except a covetous man, and such a man is a piece of grit in the machinery; he is out of gear with the universe. Man is a wheel running in the opposite direction to the wheels of God’s great […]

Covetousness, Danger of – Charles Spurgeon

Covetousness, Danger of – Charles Spurgeon BEWARE of a growing covetousness, for covetousness is of all sins one of the most insidious. It is like the silting up of a river. As the river comes down from the land it brings with it sand and earth, and it deposits all these at its mouth, and […]

Courage necessary for the Christian – Charles Spurgeon

Courage necessary for the Christian – Charles Spurgeon YOU tell me a deacon has thrown cold water upon your efforts. Cold water! Does that discourage you? Are you in a fluster about that? What would you have done if, like old Latimer, you had been called to take off your garments some cold morning in […]

Cooperation in work for Christ – Charles Spurgeon

Cooperation in work for Christ – Charles Spurgeon JESUS sent out his disciples by twos, for he knew that each would cheer his fellow. Service is usually best in companionship: he who works altogether alone will be in his temper either too high or too low, censorious or desponding. Two are better far than one; […]

Convictions, Obedience to – Charles Spurgeon

Convictions, Obedience to – Charles Spurgeon MAY you, my brethren, obey your convictions as constantly as matter obeys the laws of gravitation, and never may you sell your birthright for the world’s wretched pottage. Could this house be filled with such men and women, London would shake beneath the tramp of our army, this whole […]

Conviction, Ordeal ofConviction, Ordeal of – Charles Spurgeon

Conviction, Ordeal ofConviction, Ordeal of – Charles Spurgeon SOONER or later each saved man will have his hand-to-hand fight with the prince of darkness; and as a general rule, it is a great mercy to have it over on the outset of one’s career, and be able afterwards to feel, “Whatever comes upon me, I […]

Converts, not all Professed Ones Genuine – Charles Spurgeon

Converts, not all Professed Ones Genuine – Charles Spurgeon THE florist does not expect all his slips to become shrubs. Look you at the trees which, in a few short days, will be smothered with blossoms and glorious with beauty; do you expect those blossoms all to become fruit? No gardener thinks that such a […]

Conversion Times, the Church’s Joy – Charles Spurgeon

Conversion Times, the Church’s Joy – Charles Spurgeon WHAT joy there is in the church of God when sinners are converted! We have our high holidays, we have our mirthful days downstairs in the lecture-hall, when we hear of souls turned from the paths of the destroyer; and in the vestries behind, your pastors and […]

Conversion, Wisdom of God in – Charles Spurgeon

Conversion, Wisdom of God in – Charles Spurgeon YOU know the children’s toy, the kaleidoscope? Every time you turn it there is some fresh form of beauty. You seldom see the same form twice. So it is with nature, each time and season has its special beauty. There is always variety in its scenery; diversities […]

Conversion, Day of—Retrospect of the – Charles Spurgeon

Conversion, Day of—Retrospect of the – Charles Spurgeon DO you recollect the day when the gospel carried your heart by storm? You never can forget when the great battering-ram of truth began to beat against the gates of Mansoul. You recollect how you strengthened the posts and bars, and stood out against the gospel, resolving […]

 Contentment through the Cross – Charles Spurgeon 

Contentment through the Cross – Charles Spurgeon BELIEVERS in Jesus carry the pearl of content in their bosoms. Jesus takes away the restless spirit, and gives us rest. Jesus is the door that fits the heart, and when he is near to us he shuts out the world’s cold and heat, and gives us sweet […]

Consolation, Strong – Charles Spurgeon

Consolation, Strong – Charles Spurgeon WHAT is strong consolation? I think strong consolation is that which does not depend upon bodily health. What a cowardly old enemy the devil is! When we are strong and vigorous in body, it is very seldom that he will tempt us to doubt and fear, but if we have […]

Consolation, Everlasting – Charles Spurgeon

Consolation, Everlasting – Charles Spurgeon A MAN goes to work to make money, and after toiling hard for it he gets it, and it is a consolation to him, but it is not an “everlasting consolation,” for he may spend or he may lose all his money; he may invest it in some company (limited […]

Consistency its own Reward – Charles Spurgeon

Consistency its own Reward – Charles Spurgeon TO this hour truth offers no dowry but herself to those who will espouse her. Abuse, contempt, hard fare, ridicule, misrepresentation—these are the wages of consistency; and if better comes it is not to be reckoned on. If any man be of a noble enough spirit to love […]

Consecration to be Entire – Charles Spurgeon

Consecration to be Entire – Charles Spurgeon WE must bring before God, if we would be accepted in our works, something of all virtues. It must not be all galbanum nor all stacte; not all intrepid courage without any subdued reverence, nor all the simplicity of affection without any of the sublimity of faith; it […]

Consecration, Partial – Charles Spurgeon

Consecration, Partial – Charles Spurgeon I NOTICED the other day, a remark which struck me. Speaking of a certain congregation, the writer said he believed there were a hundred persons in it who were worth not less than five thousand pounds a-year each, and then he mentioned the sum that was given for the maintenance […]

 Consecration, Exhortation to – Charles Spurgeon 

Consecration, Exhortation to – Charles Spurgeon IF you could know regrets in the realm of blessedness, would not these be the regrets, that you have not served Christ better, loved him more, spoke of him oftener, given more generously to his cause, and more uniformly proved yourselves to be consecrated to him? I am afraid […]

Consecration, every Believer’s Desire – Charles Spurgeon

Consecration, every Believer’s Desire – Charles Spurgeon YOU know in the church of Rome they have certain orders of men and women who devote themselves to certain benevolent, charitable, or superstitious works, and who come to be especially considered as the servants of the Lord Jesus. Now, we have never admired this form of fraternities […]

Consecrated Buildings – Charles Spurgeon

Consecrated Buildings – Charles Spurgeon IF it be true that there is some sanctity this side of a brick-wall more than there is on the other side of it; if it be true that the fresh air blows away grace, and that for the highest acceptance we need groined arches, pillars, aisle, chancel, and transept, […]

Conscience, Awakened—Terror of – Charles Spurgeon

Conscience, Awakened—Terror of – Charles Spurgeon SEEING that there had been no wars in Cain’s day, and that the human heart had not been brutalized as it now is, so as to speak of war as we now do in such gentle terms, surely if he had had any conscience at all, it must have […]

Congregations, Thin—Comfort in – Charles Spurgeon

Congregations, Thin—Comfort in – Charles Spurgeon SOME years ago there was a young man, who, upon much such a morning as this—cold, snowy, dark—entered a house of prayer, as you have done today. I thought as I came here, this morning, of that young man. I said to myself, “This morning is so very forbidding […]

Changing Diapers

Changing Diapers After bringing their first baby home from the hospital, the wife suggested to her husband that he try his hand at changing diapers. “I’m busy,” he said. “I’ll do the next one.” The next time the baby was wet, she asked if he was ready to learn how to change diapers. He gave […]

Congratulations, Spiritual – Charles Spurgeon

Congratulations, Spiritual – Charles Spurgeon LET us congratulate one another that our prayers, with all the faults that we are apt to find with them, are being heard. They are penetrating Heaven, they are entering the pearly gate, they are swarming the throne of the Most High. Through Jesus’ blood, which they use as their […]

Confidence in God, Childlike – Charles Spurgeon

Confidence in God, Childlike – Charles Spurgeon YOU heard your little boy the other day crying bitterly. His mother called him, and asked what ailed him? It was a splinter in his finger. Well, that was a small affair; you did not want to call in three surgeons to extract it, or raise a hue […]

Confidence in God – Charles Spurgeon

Confidence in God – Charles Spurgeon THAT is a grand story of Alexander’s confidence in his friend and physician. When the physician had mixed him a potion for his sickness, a letter was put into Alexander’s hand, warning him not to drink the medicine, for it was poisoned. He held the letter in one hand […]

Condemnation through rejecting Christ – Charles Spurgeon

Condemnation through rejecting Christ – Charles Spurgeon HERE is a man out at sea; he has got a chart, and that chart, if well studied, will, with the help of the compass, guide him to his journey’s end. The pole-star gleams out amidst the cloud-rifts, and that, too, will help him. “No,” says he, “I […]

Condemnation not for the Believer – Charles Spurgeon

Condemnation not for the Believer – Charles Spurgeon THE sin of the believer was laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ, “for the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” And from that day forward the penalty of sin has been discharged and removed by the Redeemer’s having endured it himself. The black […]

Conceit of Man – Charles Spurgeon

Conceit of Man – Charles Spurgeon A CERTAIN worthy of our acquaintance, being out of a situation, made application to a friend to recommend him to a place, and remarked, that he would prefer a somewhat superior position, “for you know, Tomkins,” said he, “I am not a fool, and I aren’t ignorant.” We would […]

Companionship with Jesus – Charles Spurgeon

Companionship with Jesus – Charles Spurgeon IN days of persecution those who believed the Bible on secondhand have denied the faith, but those who have had it worked into the warp and woof of their being, who have had their souls dyed and tinctured through and through with it, because they have lived upon Christ, […]

Companionship of Jesus – Charles Spurgeon

Companionship of Jesus – Charles Spurgeon IF Jesus Christ be your companion, you may walk unharmed through Vanity Fair; and if your path should lie through it, you need not care for all the fools that pluck at your garment. Through a shower of mud it is safe and blessed traveling if Jesus be our […]

Communion Table, Music for the – Charles Spurgeon

Communion Table, Music for the – Charles Spurgeon WE should not choose a tune for the communion table which is not very soft. These are no boisterous themes with which we have to deal when we tarry here. A bleeding Savior, robed in a vesture dyed with blood—this is a theme which you must treat […]

Communion Table, Christ seen at the – Charles Spurgeon

Communion Table, Christ seen at the – Charles Spurgeon THE elements of bread and wine become the lenses of a far-seeing optic-glass, through which we behold the Savior; and I say again, if there be one spot of earth clear from the smoke of care, it is the table where saints have fellowship with their […]

 Communion with Christ, the means of Growth – Charles Spurgeon 

Communion with Christ, the means of Growth – Charles Spurgeon THE well-head and fountain of growth in grace is well-sustained communion and manifest oneness with Christ; we may strive after moral virtue if we will, but we shall be like those foolish children who pluck flowers and thrust them into their little gardens without roots; […]

Communion, Gates of – Charles Spurgeon

Communion, Gates of – Charles Spurgeon THIS city of communion has many pearly gates, every several gate is of one pearl, and each gate is thrown open to the uttermost that we may enter, assured of welcome. If there were but one small loophole through which to talk with Jesus, it would be a high […]

Communion, Bliss of – Charles Spurgeon

Communion, Bliss of – Charles Spurgeon COMMUNION with Christ has no after-bitterness in it. It never cloys; it is a sun without spots; it is a moon which never wanes; it is an ocean which never ebbs; it is a river which flows on forever—it is all Heaven and all bliss. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest […]

Coming of the Lord, Welcoming the – Charles Spurgeon

Coming of the Lord, Welcoming the – Charles Spurgeon IN Pompeii’s last tremendous hour the bread was in the oven, but the baker never saw it taken from it; the meat was seething in the pot never to be eaten; the slave was at the mill, the prisoner in the dungeon, the traveler at the […]

Comforters, Awkward – Charles Spurgeon

Comforters, Awkward – Charles Spurgeon YOU know, in common life, there are some people who seem to be born nurses. Others there are, to be sure, who cannot nurse at all; if you were ill, you would never have them about you even if they would come for nothing and pay you for having them. […]

Comfort, Undying, in God – Charles Spurgeon

Comfort, Undying, in God – Charles Spurgeon NONE of your dearest and most cherished loves are at all worthy to sit upon the throne of your heart—far down in the scale must they be placed when the God who gave them to you is brought into comparison. That broad bosom of your beloved husband beats […]

Comfort for Troubled Ones – Charles Spurgeon

Comfort for Troubled Ones – Charles Spurgeon THE saint’s lot has its blacks, but it has also its whites; drops of wormwood are ours, but milk and honey are not denied us. We mourn at Marah, but we sing at Elim. Bochim still stands, but Bethel is ours too. The lion roars, but the turtle […]

Coldness of Heart a Barrier to Communion – Charles Spurgeon

Coldness of Heart a Barrier to Communion – Charles Spurgeon AS one said, on a certain occasion, there is a fleet lying in the river richly laden, but it cannot come up, because the river is blocked up with the ice; so, methinks, I see my Master’s love lying out far down the river, and […]

Church of England, Unsoundness of – Charles Spurgeon

Church of England, Unsoundness of – Charles Spurgeon THE Church of England is eaten through and through with Sacramentarianism, but Nonconformity appears to me to be almost as badly riddled with philosophical infidelity. Those of whom we thought better things are turning aside one by one from the fundamentals of the faith. At first they […]

Church Discipline, Object of – Charles Spurgeon

Church Discipline, Object of – Charles Spurgeon SOME backsliders, I fear, are apostates, for having brought dishonor upon the Christian church, they nevertheless are far from being humbled, but impertinently thrust themselves and their supposed claims to attention upon the church whom they have grieved and injured; their much-talked-of repentance appearing to us to be […]

Church, Worldliness of—Her Curse – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Worldliness of—Her Curse – Charles Spurgeon A WORLDLY church chases away the Spirit of God. Wherever there is a people conformed to the maxims and ways of the world, indifferent in prayer and sluggish in effort, there will be the name to live, but there will be death; but where there is a people […]

Church to Confess her Sin – Charles Spurgeon

Church to Confess her Sin – Charles Spurgeon AS a church we want to be kept low before the Lord. Why what are we as a church? There are some sad sinners among us, who are such clever hypocrites that we cannot find them out, and there are others who walk so ill that we […]

Church to be Self-sacrificing – Charles Spurgeon

Church to be Self-sacrificing – Charles Spurgeon O THAT the Christian church had more self-sacrificing men, like old Curtius, who, when there is a chasm to fill up, leap into it, and feel it an honor to be swallowed up for Christ’s sake and the truth’s sake. O for many a Christian Scaevola, who, like […]

Church, the Place of Broad Vision – Charles Spurgeon

Church, the Place of Broad Vision – Charles Spurgeon IT was one of the common enjoyments of the citizen of any walled city to come to the top of the wall in order to take views afar. And when a man once gets into the altitudes of gospel doctrines, and has learned to understand the […]

Church, the Garden of the King – Charles Spurgeon

Church, the Garden of the King – Charles Spurgeon IF Louis Napoleon could call a senate of all the potentates in this world in Paris, and hold a congress there, the whole of them put together would not be worth the snap of a finger compared with half-a-dozen godly old women who meet together in […]

Church, the Garden of Christ – Charles Spurgeon

Church, the Garden of Christ – Charles Spurgeon ONE flower is very sweet. I smell its perfume. But I walk into some vast conservatories, into some gentleman’s garden acres in extent, and there are beds of flowers, the blue, and scarlet, and yellow. I see the verbena, the calceolaria, and the geranium and many others, […]

Church Sustained by God – Charles Spurgeon

Church Sustained by God – Charles Spurgeon THE church of God is God’s battle-axe and weapons of war in fighting his battles for truth and righteousness; and, up until now, history shows that none have been able to stand against God in the midst of his people. It is the fact, that along the whole […]

Church Strengthened by her Conflicts – Charles Spurgeon

Church Strengthened by her Conflicts – Charles Spurgeon EVERY age produces a new crop of heretics and infidels. Just as the current of the times may run, so does the stream of infidelity change its direction. We have lived long enough, some of us, to see three or four species of atheists and deists rise […]

Church, Safety of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Safety of the – Charles Spurgeon I STOOD this week by the side of a church which once was a considerable distance inland, but now it stands just by the ocean side. Almost every year a great mass of the clay cliff falls into the sea, and in a year or two this parish […]

 Church Recruited by Conversion – Charles Spurgeon 

Church Recruited by Conversion – Charles Spurgeon I SHOULD reckon it to be a burning disgrace if it could be said, “The large church under that man’s pastoral care is composed of members whom he has stolen away from other Christian churches.” No, but I value beyond all price the godless, the careless, who are […]

Church, Purification of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Purification of the – Charles Spurgeon WHILE a church is without the Spirit of God it will keep in its old way, it will plead precedent, it will endure grievous abuses, it will make excuses for this, and excuses for that; but, let the Lord once come, and out the hawkers and hucksters must […]

Church, Order of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Order of the – Charles Spurgeon A CHURCH is not a load of bricks, remember: it is a house built together. A church is not a bundle of cuttings in the gardener’s hand: it is a vine, of which we are the branches. The true church is an organized whole; and life, true spiritual […]

Church nothing without the Spirit – Charles Spurgeon

Church nothing without the Spirit – Charles Spurgeon IT awakens melancholy reflections when we hear of the bodies of old Egyptian kings, proud lords of millions of men, dragged by our discoverers out of their secret chambers in the pyramids and exposed to every vulgar eye. The great sarcophagus has had its lid uplifted, and […]

Church not to be Judged by her Hypocrites – Charles Spurgeon

Church not to be Judged by her Hypocrites – Charles Spurgeon WAS there ever a club in all the world without disreputable persons in it? Was there ever any association of men that might not be condemned, if the fool’s rule was followed, of condemning the wheat because of the chaff? When with all our […]

Church not to be Forsaken in Adversity – Charles Spurgeon

Church not to be Forsaken in Adversity – Charles Spurgeon PERHAPS some of you are living in a district just now where the ministry is painfully devoid of power. The lamp burns very low in your sanctuary, the members worshiping are few, and zeal is altogether dead. Do not desert the church, do not flee […]

Church, No need to Despond about the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, No need to Despond about the – Charles Spurgeon ACCORDING to the gloomy prophets, all England is going to the bad—not England alone, but all countries are hastening on to a general and everlasting smash. Then one begins to fret about the church of God; for according to the soothsayers of the age, Antichrist […]

Church, Hope for—In the worst Circumstances – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Hope for—In the worst Circumstances – Charles Spurgeon SUPPOSE it should ever come to this, as some say it will, that the churches, many of them, should desert the old truths, and the ministers become dumb dogs that cannot bark, and one by one their testimony should be silent, and every candlestick should be […]

Church, Greatness of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Greatness of the – Charles Spurgeon A DROP of water may be very precious to a thirsty tongue, but a river full of it! Children are pleased when for the first time in their lives they sail across some little lake, but how surprised they are when they come to the deep and rolling […]

Church, Glory of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Glory of the – Charles Spurgeon THERE is one lamp; well, that is very bright, very pleasing; you like to have it in your room; but think of all London illuminated to the very top of the cross of St. Paul’s, and what an idea you then have of brightness. Now, one glorified Christian […]

Church, every Member to work for God – Charles Spurgeon

Church, every Member to work for God – Charles Spurgeon A CERTAIN band of men, like knights, had been exceedingly victorious in all their conflicts. They were men of valor and of indomitable courage; they had carried everything before them, and subdued province after province for their king. But on a sudden they said in […]

Church, Enemies a Blessing to the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Enemies a Blessing to the – Charles Spurgeon WE have looked upon our adversaries, though they seemed like stormy petrels, as being the index of a favorable wind to the good barque of Christ’s church. Persecution seems to be the wave that, when it leaps up around her, speeds her course. Let the mountains […]

Church, Divisions in the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Divisions in the – Charles Spurgeon SOME of the old Roman walls are compacted with such excellent cement, that it would be almost impossible to separate one stone from another; in fact, the whole mass has become consolidated like one rock, so embedded in cement, that you cannot distinguish one stone from another. Happy […]

Church, Crown of the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Crown of the – Charles Spurgeon AS a church we have a crown, and for many years we have held it; but I would use the language of Christ in the Book of the Revelation, when, speaking to one of the churches, he says, “Hold fast that you have, that no man take your […]

Church, Conversion of Souls her Mission – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Conversion of Souls her Mission – Charles Spurgeon A CHURCH that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight with evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has […]

Church, Building up the – Charles Spurgeon

Church, Building up the – Charles Spurgeon DID you ever win a soul to Christ? Did you ever get a grip of the hand of spiritual gratitude? Did you ever see the tear starting from the eye when the convert said, “Bless you! I shall remember you in Heaven, for you have brought me to […]

Church assured of Success in her Mission – Charles Spurgeon

Church assured of Success in her Mission – Charles Spurgeon WE heard it said, the other day, that the religion of Jesus Christ could not be expected to prosper in some places unless it had a fair start. Did that remark come from an infidel, or a bishop? If I were asked and knew not, […]

Christless Souls, Danger of – Charles Spurgeon

Christless Souls, Danger of – Charles Spurgeon I UNDERSTAND drinking bitter medicine, if it is to make me well; but who would drink wormwood and gall with no good result to follow? I can understand toiling if a wage is in prospect, but I cannot see the sense of toiling when there is no reward […]

Christians, Unoccupied – Charles Spurgeon

Christians, Unoccupied – Charles Spurgeon I WALKED, a few days ago, by rows of houses all empty, and all shut up, and I could not help thinking if the landlords would take the smallest rent and put in the very poorest tenants, it would be better than to let them stand empty; for the boys […]

Christians, Sleeping – Charles Spurgeon

Christians, Sleeping – Charles Spurgeon SOME somnambulists have been able to walk on places where, had they been awake, they never would have been able to endure the dizzy height; and I see some Christians, if indeed they be Christians, running awful risks which I think they would never venture upon unless they had fallen […]

 Christians, Almost – Charles Spurgeon 

Christians, Almost – Charles Spurgeon A LEAKY ship went to sea, and a passenger was almost persuaded not to trust his life in it, but he did so, and he perished. A bubble speculation was started in the city, and a merchant was almost persuaded not to have shares in it, but he bought the […]

Christian’s Adieu to Earth – Charles Spurgeon

Christian’s Adieu to Earth – Charles Spurgeon WHEN we loose our cable, and bid farewell to earth, it shall not be with bitterness in the retrospect. There is sin in it, and we are called to leave it; there has been trial in it, and we are called to be delivered from it; there has […]

Christianity, Unostentatious – Charles Spurgeon

Christianity, Unostentatious – Charles Spurgeon AS you travel over the mountains and are smitten with thirst, you look for the cooling stream, but the traveler who has often passed the hills never stoops to drink of the little streamlets which run uncovered down the mountain side; he knows that their exposure to the heat of […]

Christianity, Fountain of – Charles Spurgeon

Christianity, Fountain of – Charles Spurgeon AS the heathens spoke of Minerva leaping armed from the head of Jove, so did the religion of Christ spring armed from the very heart of Jesus Christ; and it stands in the midst of the world an enemy of all unrighteousness, the foe of all oppression, the friend […]

Christianity contrasted with Profession – Charles Spurgeon

Christianity contrasted with Profession – Charles Spurgeon IT is almost painful to watch little children when some little pet of theirs has died, how they can hardly realize the difference between death and life! Your little boy’s bird moped for awhile upon its perch, and at last dropped down in the cage; and do you […]

Christian Experience, High—To be sought – Charles Spurgeon

Christian Experience, High—To be sought – Charles Spurgeon I BELIEVE that high-toned Christian experience is, to a great extent, what common Christians think to be quite out of their reach. Oh to get up above you mists which dim the valley! Oh to climb the mountain’s top which laughs in the sunlight! Oh to get […]

Christian Experience, Seasons of – Charles Spurgeon

Christian Experience, Seasons of – Charles Spurgeon IT is impossible to draw a fair comparison between the various stages of Christian experience, so as to give a judicious preference to one above another. Consider, as in a parable, the seasons of the year. There are many persons who, in the midst of the beauties of […]

Christian, Work of—Continual – Charles Spurgeon

Christian, Work of—Continual – Charles Spurgeon I HEARD once of a clergyman who used to go hunting, and when he was reproved by his bishop, he replied that he never went hunting when he was on duty. But he was asked, “When is a clergyman off duty?” And so with the Christian, when is he […]

Christian Vigorous in Death – Charles Spurgeon

Christian Vigorous in Death – Charles Spurgeon WHEN travelers sail near to certain spice-islands, they tell their nearness to the gardens of perfume by the odors wafted to them on the winds; even so, as the Christian runner advances nearer to Heaven, he enjoys new delights such as celestial spirits rejoice to experience. In proportion […]

Christian, Promptness of the – Charles Spurgeon

Christian, Promptness of the – Charles Spurgeon THERE have been some men in this world who have had little else to recommend them except that by which they have attracted their fellow men to yield them homage—like Napoleon Bonaparte, for instance, when he said to his soldiers at Austerlitz, “Soldiers, this battle must be a […]

Christian, Death of a – Charles Spurgeon

Christian, Death of a – Charles Spurgeon AH! it is sweet to see a Christian die; it is the noblest thing on earth—the dismissal of a saint from his labor to his reward, from his conflicts to his triumphs. The gorgeous pageantry of princes is as nothing. The glory of the setting sun is not […]

Christian, a Memorial of Christ – Charles Spurgeon

Christian, a Memorial of Christ – Charles Spurgeon YOU have at home today some trifle which, notwithstanding its little value, you would not sell for a thousand times its weight in gold because it belonged to a son or to a daughter since departed this life. That little memento is connected with some little deed […]

Christ Glorified, Attractions of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Glorified, Attractions of – Charles Spurgeon NOWHERE on earth is Christ, and therefore nowhere on earth may our heart build her nest. Nowhere—no, not in the high places, or in the quiet resting places; not in the garden of nuts, or in the beds of spices; not in the tents of Kedar, or between […]

Christ Crucified, the Preacher’s Theme – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Crucified, the Preacher’s Theme – Charles Spurgeon DO not tell me that we ought mainly to preach Christ exalted. I will preach my Lord upon the throne and delight therein, but the great remedy for ruined manhood is not Christ in glory, but Christ in shame and death. We know some who select Christ’s […]

Christ Crucified, the Everlasting Father – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Crucified, the Everlasting Father – Charles Spurgeon LOOK yonder at Christ on the cross! He did that day light such a candle as never can be put out. He is “the everlasting Father.” He set rolling that day as it were a snow-flake of truth as he died upon the cross; and you know […]

Christ Crucified, no Fear in – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Crucified, no Fear in – Charles Spurgeon THE man who has lived a life of service, at last dies a felon’s death! Look upon his head girt with the crown of thorns! Mark well his cheeks whence they have plucked off the hair! See the spittle from those scornful mouths, staining his marred countenance! […]

Christ’s Place of Prayer – Charles Spurgeon

Christ’s Place of Prayer – Charles Spurgeon JESUS, to prevent interruption, to give himself the opportunity of pouring out his whole soul, and to avoid ostentation, sought the mountain. What a grand oratory for the Son of God! What walls would have been so suitable? What room would have worthily housed so mighty an intercessor? […]

Christ’s care of his People – Charles Spurgeon

Christ’s care of his People – Charles Spurgeon WHEN Wickliffe was faint with standing, and begged to be allowed to sit, the bishop tells him that heretics shall have no seats, but John of Gaunt with rough, uncourtly words swears that he shall sit when he wills; and when the time comes the good man […]

Christ’s ability to Save – Charles Spurgeon

Christ’s ability to Save – Charles Spurgeon ABLE to save is Jesus still. “No hope” is not to be said by any of the mariners’ life brigade while he sights the crew of the sinking vessel. “No hope” is not to be said by any one of the fire brigade while he knows there are […]

 Christ, Victory of – Charles Spurgeon 

Christ, Victory of – Charles Spurgeon HERCULES cleansed the Augean stable, says the fable, but what an Augean stable was this world! Yet Christ will purge it; he is purging it, did purge it by his death. This Aceldama shall yet become an Elysium; the field of blood shall be transformed into a garden of […]

Christ, Transparency of his Character – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Transparency of his Character – Charles Spurgeon IT is really wonderful how little Jesus Christ seemed to notice what people thought of him. There used to be an idea that Christ did a great many things to prevent people forming such and such erroneous impressions of him. For instance: it was supposed that he […]

Christ to be Real to the Christian – Charles Spurgeon

Christ to be Real to the Christian – Charles Spurgeon LET not Jesus be a shadow to you or your religion will be unsubstantial; let him not be a name to you or your religion will be nominal; let him not be a myth of history or your religion will be mere fancy; let him […]

Christ to be Praised – Charles Spurgeon

Christ to be Praised – Charles Spurgeon LET the loftiest panegyrics be heaped upon the head of Christ, and he will deserve something better. Let the angels make way for him, and let them pile their thrones one upon the other. Let them conduct him to the seventh heaven—even to the Heaven of heavens, and […]

Christ, Thoughts of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Thoughts of – Charles Spurgeon DO you think of Christ, desiring still nearer access and a clearer view of him, sighing out with sacred love-sickness, saying, “O that I were with him where he is, or that he were with me where I am”? Do you think of him with admiration, wondering at the […]

Christ, The Water of Life – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, The Water of Life – Charles Spurgeon YONDER shipwrecked man has constructed a raft, and far out on the wild expanse of pitiless waters he has floated wearily day after day, sighing for a friendly sail or for sight of land; what would he not give for a little water, for water has become […]

Christ the Topstone of Humanity – Charles Spurgeon

Christ the Topstone of Humanity – Charles Spurgeon I SEE before me a stupendous pyramid; the base of it is exceeding broad: it is the inanimate creation. Stars unnumbered lie close together at its base, like the sands of the Lybian desert: ponderous masses of matter underlie the whole amazing structure, all radiant with the […]

Christ May Come Before Your Sermon Is Finished

Christ May Come Before Your Sermon Is Finished The great preacher F.B. Meyer once asked D.L. Moody, “What is the secret of your success?”  Moody replied, “For many years I have never given an address without the consciousness that the Lord may come before I have finished.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Catch Hold of the Rope of Faith

Catch Hold of the Rope of Faith Some years ago a bargeman and a collier were in a boat above the rapids of a cataract, and found themselves unable to manage it, being carried so swiftly down the current that they must both inevitably be borne down and dashed to pieces. One was saved by […]

Charles Spurgeon on Faith

Charles Spurgeon on Faith If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the true jewel fears no test. It is a poor faith which can only trust God when friends are true, […]

 Christ the Standard Bearer – Charles Spurgeon 

Christ the Standard Bearer – Charles Spurgeon WHENEVER the old Knights of the Red Cross fought the Saracens, they always endeavored to make their steel ring upon the helmet of the man whose hand held the crescent, the standard of Mohammed; ever the fight was bloodiest around the standard. Sometimes when the battle was over […]

Christ the Root of all true Religion – Charles Spurgeon

Christ the Root of all true Religion – Charles Spurgeon I LIKE that story of the Sandwich Islanders who had been converted through some of our missionaries, and the Gospel had been preached to them for years. At last two or three gentlemen in long black gowns landed there, and the people asked them what […]

Christ the only Legislator for the Church – Charles Spurgeon

Christ the only Legislator for the Church – Charles Spurgeon WE deny that either king or parliament can legislate for Christ’s church; for Thomas Cranmer’s church they may if they please, but for Christ’s church, never! In the midst of those churches which are true to Christ’s authority, the Bible is the only statute book, […]

Christ the End of the Law – Charles Spurgeon

Christ the End of the Law – Charles Spurgeon CHRIST was revealed in the end of the world to abrogate, to annihilate, utterly to abolish sin. Now, we all know what it is to have a thing abrogated. Certain laws have held good up to the first of January of this year with regard to […]

Christ the Believer’s Pattern – Charles Spurgeon

Christ the Believer’s Pattern – Charles Spurgeon THE painter would never attain to eminence if he went to an exhibition and devoted himself to the study of some work of moderate worth, and said, “I will attempt to reach this, and there I will stop contented.” No, he goes to the galleries of the great […]

Christ, Sympathy with the Sufferings of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Sympathy with the Sufferings of – Charles Spurgeon THE outside world knows nothing about Christ’s soul sufferings. They draw a picture of him, they carve a piece of wood or ivory, but they do not know his soul-sufferings; they cannot enter into them. Nay, the mass of his own people even do not know […]

Christ, Standard of—To be Planted Everywhere – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Standard of—To be Planted Everywhere – Charles Spurgeon WHEN the Spanish mariners were traversing the seas upon voyages of discovery, they never touched upon new land, whether an insignificant island or a part of the main continent, without at once setting up the standard of Ferdinand and Isabella, and taking possession of the soil […]

Cheering Others On

Cheering Others On Forty thousand fans were on hand in the Oakland stadium when Rickey Henderson tied Lou Brock’s career stolen base record. According to USA Today, Lou, who had left baseball in 1979, had followed Henderson’s career and was excited about his success. Realizing that Rickey would set a new record, Brock said, “I’ll be there. […]

Christ Is Alive

Christ Is Alive On one occasion Michelangelo, the great artist, turned on his fellow artists in a spirit of indignation. He said: “Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in weakness, Christ on the Cross, and most of all, Christ hanging dead? Why do you […]

 Christ, Sight of—Worth Death – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Sight of—Worth Death – Charles Spurgeon TO lie at Jesus’ feet is a right experience; to lie there as sick and wounded is better, but to lie there as dead is best of all; a man is taught in the mysteries of the kingdom, who comes to that. Moses with dim legal light needs […]

Christ, Self-forgetfulness of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Self-forgetfulness of – Charles Spurgeon JESUS says, “Let not your heart be troubled.” His own face was towards the cross, he was hard by the olive-press of Gethsemane: he was about to be troubled as never man was troubled, and yet among his last words were these, “Let not your heart be troubled.” As […]

Christ, Secret Rest in – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Secret Rest in – Charles Spurgeon THE Lord Jesus gives to his people a priceless casket, called the gift of rest; it is set with brilliants and inlaid with gems, and the substance thereof is of wrought gold; whoever possesses it feels and knows that his warfare is accomplished and his sin is pardoned. […]

Christ Real to a Christian – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Real to a Christian – Charles Spurgeon THE Christ of a great many professors is only fit to occupy a niche on the church wall, as a dead, inactive, but revered person. Jesus is not a real Christ to many, he is not a Christ who can really befriend them in the hour of […]

Cutting Corners

Cutting Corners In 1993, four executives from a Florida rental car company were convicted and jailed for defrauding their customers. Using what con artists have long referred to as a “salami technique” (you slice off tiny pieces in hopes that no one will notice and that those little pieces will build up to a large […]

Christ, Presence of—The Church’s Inspiration – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Presence of—The Church’s Inspiration – Charles Spurgeon JUST when the battle was about to turn with the Ironsides, and the Cavaliers were coming on with one of Rupert’s hot charges, ready to break the line, and the brave old Ironsides were half inclined to turn, up came the General, old Noll, riding on his […]

Christ, Presence of—Ensuring Success – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Presence of—Ensuring Success – Charles Spurgeon IT was enough for the army of Cromwell to know that he was there, the ever victorious, the irresistible, to lead on his Ironsides to the fray. Many a time the presence of an old Roman general was equal to another legion; as soon as the cohorts perceived […]

Christ, Presence of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Presence of – Charles Spurgeon JESUS is actually present in the daily afflictions of believers. Jesus knocks at my door, and says, “Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of […]

Church on the Island

Church on the Island A man was marooned on a desolate island. After he had been there for five years he was found and rescued. As he climbed into the rescue boat the curious rescuers noticed three grass huts. “We thought you were alone, why are there three huts,” they asked. The man replied, “The […]

Christ, Poverty of—In his Birth – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Poverty of—In his Birth – Charles Spurgeon HERE in this quiet island, the bulk of men are comfortably seeking to acquire their thousands by commerce and manufactures. We are the sensible people who follow the main chance, and are not to be deluded by ideas of glory; we are making all the money we […]

Christ: Perfection of his Character indescribable – Charles Spurgeon

Christ: Perfection of his Character indescribable – Charles Spurgeon YOU can depict the character of John, for a prominent excellence is visible; you can describe the characteristics of Peter; you can give an idea of Paul; for each of these is like a separate gem, and each one has its own especial brightness and color, […]

Christ: Perfection of his Character – Charles Spurgeon

Christ: Perfection of his Character – Charles Spurgeon THE character of our Lord was such that no one virtue had undue preponderance. Take Peter, and there is a prominent feature peculiar to himself; one quality attracts you. Take John, and there is a lovely trait in his character which at once chains you, and his […]

Christ, Perfect Consecration of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Perfect Consecration of – Charles Spurgeon IF, beloved, you knew that at—say ten o’clock to-night—you would be led away to be mocked, and despised, and scourged, and that to-morrow’s sun would see you falsely accused, hanging, a convicted criminal, to die upon a cross, do you think that you could sing tonight after your […]

Committing to Faithful Men

Committing to Faithful Men “The most significant contribution we make in life, is the passing of our faith to the next generation.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Christ Only – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Only – Charles Spurgeon HAPPY would it be for us if our hearts and our lips could become like Anacreon’s harp, which was wedded to one subject, and would learn no other. He wished to sing of the sons of Atreus, and the mighty deeds of Hercules, but his harp resounded love alone: and […]

Christ, Meditation on Overwhelming – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Meditation on Overwhelming – Charles Spurgeon THE day in which I saw most of creation’s grandeur was spent upon the Wengern Alp; my heart was near her God, and all around was majestic; the dread mountains, like pyramids of ice, the clouds like fleecy wool; I saw the avalanche, and heard the thunder of […]

Christ, Loving us in our Sins – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Loving us in our Sins – Charles Spurgeon WE recollect the tears and prayers that we poured out day and night, asking for mercy; but Jesus, our friend, was loving to us then, taking delight in those penitential tears, putting them into his bottle, telling the angels that we were praying, and making them […]

Christ, Living on – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Living on – Charles Spurgeon LET the sons of earth be nourished as they may, and fattened like kings’ sons, yet there are no faces that are so fair to look upon with holy joy and exultation, as the faces of the men who feed on Christ Jesus, who is the bread that came […]

 Christ, Likeness to – Charles Spurgeon 

Christ, Likeness to – Charles Spurgeon NOW, here is a man who has been cutting a seal and making your crest, but when you come to stamp your letters with it, you find that the impression is very bad, that it is not your crest at all. You cannot make out what it is. It […]

Christ, Kiss of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Kiss of – Charles Spurgeon HAVE you never heard of the Persian king who gave his various councillors different gifts: to one he gave a golden goblet, but to another a kiss; whereupon all the councillors of the court were envious of the man who had the kiss, and they counted the goblets of […]

Christ, Kingship of—Our Comfort – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Kingship of—Our Comfort – Charles Spurgeon A PESTILENCE has gone forth from which few of our churches are free. Human intellect is adored as an idol, and in its pride it changes the teaching of the word, and sets up new dogmas which the word of God utterly rejects. If these things depress our […]

Christ, Invitation to – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Invitation to – Charles Spurgeon HARK! hark! I hear the chariot wheels of death. He comes! he comes! and the axles of his chariot are hot with speed. He stands aloft driving his white horse. The skeleton rider brandishes his awful spear, and you are the victim. God has spared you up until now, […]

Christ: Intensity of his Zeal – Charles Spurgeon

Christ: Intensity of his Zeal – Charles Spurgeon FANCY yourselves, my brethren, standing on the beach when a ship is being broken on the rocks. If there were anything that you could do towards the rescue of the mariners, would you not feel within yourselves, “I must work”? Why, it is said that sometimes when […]

Christ, Ill-Treatment of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Ill-Treatment of – Charles Spurgeon “MY head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.” Ah, sorrowful remembrances, for those drops were not the ordinary dew that fall upon the houseless traveler’s unprotected head; his head was wet with scarlet dew, and his locks with crimson drops of a […]

Christ Growing in Value – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Growing in Value – Charles Spurgeon AS you grow in grace you will find many doctrines and points of church government which once appeared to you to be all-important, though you will still value them, will seem but of small consequence compared with Christ himself. Like the traveler ascending the Alps to reach the […]

Christ, Gentleness of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Gentleness of – Charles Spurgeon HOW very gentle, though all but omnipotent, is the influence of the sun upon the earth and all the planets! How they constantly revolve around and follow him in his wondrous march; yet you never feel that he draws! If you harness a horse to your chariot, he tugs […]

 Christ, Fullness of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Fullness of – Charles Spurgeon WHEN you contemplate the Savior, you find all the virtues enshrined in him; other men are stars, but he is a constellation, nay, he is the whole universe of stars gathered into one galaxy of splendor; other men are gems and jewels, but he is the crown imperial, where […]

Christ, Face of—The Glorified Saints’ Vision – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Face of—The Glorified Saints’ Vision – Charles Spurgeon IN the beatific vision it is Christ whom they see; and further, it is his face which they behold. They shall not see the skirts of his robe as Moses saw the back parts of Jehovah; they shall not be satisfied to touch the hem of […]

Christ Entertained by the Soul – Charles Spurgeon

Christ Entertained by the Soul – Charles Spurgeon CHRIST must be crowned in men’s hearts, or we pine with grief. We cannot be satisfied to see him stand in the street, his head wet with dew, and his locks with the drops of the night: we must have the Son of God entertained, for oh! […]

Christ, Encouragement from his Sufferings – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Encouragement from his Sufferings – Charles Spurgeon THAT defile between overhanging rocks is so dark. I, a poor timid child, shrink back from it; but how is my courage restored as I see Jesus bearing the lantern of his love, and going before me into the thick darkness! Hark! I hear him say, “Follow […]

Christ, Coming to—As a Sinner -Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Coming to—As a Sinner – Charles Spurgeon A CERTAIN king was accustomed on set occasions to entertain all the beggars of the city. Around him sat his courtiers, all clothed in rich apparel; the beggars sat at the same table in their rags of poverty. Now, it came to pass that on a certain […]

Christ All to the Believer – Charles Spurgeon

Christ All to the Believer – Charles Spurgeon ONE of old said, “Aut Caesar aut nullus,” he would be either Caesar or nobody; and so Jesus Christ will be either acknowledged the anointed Savior, or he will be nothing to you. If you will not take him to be an expiation for your sins, and […]

Christ, Absolute Rule of – Charles Spurgeon

Christ, Absolute Rule of – Charles Spurgeon SOME people are militia-Christians—they serve the King with a limitation, and must not be sent out of England; but others are soldier-Christians, who give themselves wholly up to their Lord and Captain; they will go wherever he chooses to send them. Some professors appear to belong to God […]

 Christ a Tender Shepherd – Charles Spurgeon 

Christ a Tender Shepherd – Charles Spurgeon THERE is a mother here this morning: she has seven children; I know what child she has been thinking of while we have been preaching. She has not been thinking of John, who is married and away, nor of Mary, who is in health, nor of Thomas, who […]

Christ a Physician – Charles Spurgeon

Christ a Physician – Charles Spurgeon THERE lies a poor man; he has been wounded in battle. In yonder hospital there is a bundle of liniment. The blood is flowing: he has lost an arm; he has lost a leg. There are plenty at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and plenty of […]

 Cholera, Voice of the – Charles Spurgeon 

Cholera, Voice of the – Charles Spurgeon THIS cholera is like the sound of a trumpet. The voice of the Christian ministry is not heard. Those who go to listen to it do not all hear it, for they hear as though they heard not; while the great mass know nothing, and care less about […]

Child’s Cry heard by God – Charles Spurgeon

Child’s Cry heard by God – Charles Spurgeon IT is very seldom Christ Jesus keeps poor sinners waiting long. Sometimes he does. He answers them not a word; but then it is to try their faith. Though he keeps them waiting, he will not send them away wanting; he will be sure to give them […]

 Children, Salvation of – Charles Spurgeon

Children, Salvation of – Charles Spurgeon I HATE to hear people say, “They have received a pack of children into the church.” “A pack of children!” yes, and if Jesus carries them in his bosom, surely you are not imitating Christ, nor exhibiting much of his spirit when you look down upon them and despise […]

 Children in the Church – Charles Spurgeon 

Children in the Church – Charles Spurgeon I AM very thankful that our heavenly Father has saved so many of the children of this church. We rejoice that “Many dear children are gathering here, For of such is the kingdom of Heaven.” May the Lord plant in his garden many more of those sweet flowers […]

Childhood, Purity of—A Restraint upon Sin – Charles Spurgeon

Childhood, Purity of—A Restraint upon Sin – Charles Spurgeon THE exhalations of our moral conduct sweeten or defile the general atmosphere of society, and in this children as well as others are partakers. I would say to every man who is giving full swing to his passions, if nothing else will check you, at any […]

Character, Impression of – Charles Spurgeon

Character, Impression of – Charles Spurgeon THERE are men in this world who never do anything with energy, who never under any circumstances throw force into anything they have to do. They walk over the sands of life with a light foot, and make no impression; while others as they tread the pathway which God […]

Ceremonies, No Peace in – Charles Spurgeon

Ceremonies, No Peace in – Charles Spurgeon IT may be you have been brought in connection with that church which vainly rests its faith upon the figment of apostolical succession, and the empty parade of episcopal ordination. You have been taught to believe in aquatic regeneration, and confirmation by palmistry; you are the dupe of […]

Ceremonialism, Quackery of – Charles Spurgeon

Ceremonialism, Quackery of – Charles Spurgeon DR. CEREMONIAL has patented a lotion for producing regeneration in little children, by the application of a few drops to their forehead. He puts his hands on the heads of boys and girls, and by what he calls occult influence, confirms them in grace. He professes to be able […]

Cavilers – Charles Spurgeon

Cavilers – Charles Spurgeon IT is very likely that neither ministers nor their sermons are perfect—the best garden may have a few weeds in it, the cleanest corn may have some chaff—but cavilers cavil at anything or nothing, and find fault for the sake of showing off their deep knowledge: sooner than let their tongues […]

 Carnal Mind, Ignorance of the – Charles Spurgeon 

Carnal Mind, Ignorance of the – Charles Spurgeon THE tree planted by the river feels not the ague which breeds in the fen and lurks in the morass; but, put a man there, and you will see him shivering from head to foot before long; and the carnal mind, dead in sin, knows not the […]

Cares to be cast on God – Charles Spurgeon

Cares to be cast on God – Charles Spurgeon DEAR mother, the thought of the children at home has frequently disturbed your devotions in the assembly of the saints. Good friend engaged in business, you do not always find it easy to put a hedge between Saturday and Sunday. The cares of the week will […]

Clean Your Windows

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Christ Bought Our Salvation

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Catch the Vision of Your Leader

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Continually Growing

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8 Contributors to Peace of Mind

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Church Attendance

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Compromise with a Bear

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Churches Are for Mending Lives

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Changing Churches

Changing Churches I don’t know why some people change churches—what difference does it make which one you stay home from? Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Children Must Be Taught While They Are Young

Children Must Be Taught While They Are Young The English poet Samuel Coleridge talked with a man who did not believe that children should be given any religious instruction at all. This man claimed that the child’s mind should not be prejudiced in any direction, and when he became older he should be permitted to […]

Churches Closing

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Christmas and Easter Christians

Christmas and Easter Christians There were four country churches in a small Texas town: The Presbyterian church, the Baptist church, the Methodist church, and the Catholic church. Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels. One day,the Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they […]

Christmas Is Jesus’ Birthday

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Christmas and Political Correctness

Christmas and Political Correctness The following memo was sent by a school administrator: Dear Staff,Please remember that we live in a multicultural community, and it is not acceptable to continue to act and speak as if everyone celebrates Christmas as the birth of Christ. The use of the word Christmas and references to nativity or the birth […]

1 Corinthians 13—Christmas Version

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Christ Came to People of All Classes

Christ Came to People of All Classes In a survey, nearly a third of those questioned stated, that of all the persons mentioned in the Christmas story, they identified the most with the shepherds. The shepherds were average, ordinary people and were invited to see the birth of the King of kings! Facebook Twitter WhatsApp […]

2013 Christmas Spending

2013 Christmas Spending Some retailers are concerned about the the fact that there are only 26 shopping days between Black Friday and Christmas day this year. Yet, the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend even more than they did last year. They estimate that we will spend $602 billion on Christmas gifts and merchandise. […]

Christmas Only Christians

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Constantly Witnessing

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Creative Asking

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Caring Enough to Act

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Christmas Is Jesus’ Birthday

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Children Must Be Taught While They Are Young

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COLD CREAM A little boy watched, fascinated, as his mother gently rubbed cold cream on her face. “Why are you rubbing cold cream on your face, Mommy?” he asked. “To make myself beautiful,” said his mother. A few minutes later, she began removing the cream with a tissue. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “Are you […]

CHRISTIANITY HAS A FIRM FOUNDATION

CHRISTIANITY HAS A FIRM FOUNDATION Mormons say that the angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith and completed the compilation and writing of the Book of Mormon. He told Joseph Smith where to find golden plates buried near his family home. He then translated what was written on those plates (the Book of Mormon). Eleven men are […]

CHARLES SPURGEON ON THE BIBLE

CHARLES SPURGEON ON THE BIBLE “I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or else not to believe at all. Believe this Book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims […]

CONGRESS ON THE BIBLE

CONGRESS ON THE BIBLE In 1854 The United States Congress said, “The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in our schools.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email

Christmas and Easter Christians

Christmas and Easter Christians There were four country churches in a small Texas town: The Presbyterian church, the Baptist church, the Methodist church, and the Catholic church. Each church was overrun with pesky squirrels. One day,the Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about the squirrels. After much prayer and consideration they […]

CHANGED ATHEIST

CHANGED ATHEIST George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, “The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name […]

CHOOSING A PRISON SENTENCE

CHOOSING A PRISON SENTENCE In February of 2008, James Fantroy was convicted of stealing over $20,000 of government grants while he served as a City Council member in Dallas, Texas. Because Fantroy had kidney cancer and used a wheelchair, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade told him he could choose between serving a month in prison […]

CONTRACT ALLOWS WIFE TO BEAT HER HUSBAND

CONTRACT ALLOWS WIFE TO BEAT HER HUSBAND Mr. Zhang, from Chongqing, China, signed a contract that allows his wife to beat him once a week. The 32-year-old Mr. Zhang is very competitive and “never wants to lose an argument.” He says the only problem is that his wife knows kung fu. When they get in […]

CROWS AND RESPONSIBILITY

CROWS AND RESPONSIBILITY When a flock of crows invades a field of corn, the birds customarily station two sentries in a nearby tree to keep watch and warn the rest of any danger. Once, two people succeeded in sneaking up on a flock of crows and scaring them before the sentries had given warning. The […]

CHOOSING A PRISON SENTENCE

CHOOSING A PRISON SENTENCE In February of 2008, James Fantroy was convicted of stealing over $20,000 of government grants while he served as a City Council member in Dallas, Texas. Because Fantroy had kidney cancer and used a wheelchair, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade told him he could choose between serving a month in prison […]

Cast Out But Rescued. – Dwight Lyman Moody

Cast Out But Rescued. – Dwight Lyman Moody Cast Out But Rescued. I met a man in New York who was an earnest worker, and I asked him to tell me his experience. He said he had been a drunkard for over twenty years. His parents had forsaken him, and his wife had cast him […]

Conversion – Dwight Lyman Moody

Conversion – Dwight Lyman Moody Mr. Moody’s First Impulse in Converting Souls. I want to tell you how I got the first impulse to work solely for the conversion of men. For a long time after my conversion I didn’t accomplish anything. I hadn’t got into my right place; that was it. I hadn’t thought […]

Confessing Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody

Confessing Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody What a Woman Did. One place we were in, in England, I recollect a Quakeress came in. The meeting was held in a Methodist Church, and the Spirit of God was there — souls were being saved: multitudes were pressing into the kingdom. She had a brother who was […]

Condemned to be Shot – Dwight Lyman Moody

Condemned to be Shot – Dwight Lyman Moody There was a man came from Europe to this country a year or two ago, and he became dissatisfied and went to Cuba in 1867 when they had that great civil war there. Finally he was arrested for a spy, court-martialed, and condemned to be shot. He […]

Commercial Traveler – Dwight Lyman Moody

Commercial Traveler – Dwight Lyman Moody I remember when preaching in New York City, at the Hippodrome, a man coming up to me and telling me a story that thrilled my soul. One night, he said he had been gambling; had gambled all the money away he had. When he went home to the hotel […]

Christian Zeal – Dwight Lyman Moody

Christian Zeal – Dwight Lyman Moody Satan’s Match. If you will allow me an expression, Satan got a match when he got Paul. He tried to get him away from God, but he never switched off. Look how they tortured him. Look how they stripped and beat him. Not only did the Romans do this, […]

Christian Work – Dwight Lyman Moody

Christian Work – Dwight Lyman Moody How Moody was Encouraged. I remember a few years ago I got discouraged, and could not see much fruit of my work; and one morning, as I was in my study, cast down, one of my Sabbath-school teachers came in and wanted to know what I was discouraged about, […]

Christ Saves – Dwight Lyman Moody

Christ Saves – Dwight Lyman Moody Moody in Prison. I have good news to tell you — Christ is come after you. I was at the Fulton-street prayer-meeting, a good many years ago, one Saturday night, and when the meeting was over, a man came to me and said, “I would like to have you […]

Child Stories – Dwight Lyman Moody

Child Stories – Dwight Lyman Moody “Little Moody.” I remember when I was a boy I went several miles from home with an older brother. That seemed to me the longest visit of my life. It seemed that I was then further away from home than I had ever been before, or have ever been […]

Calling the Roll of Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody

Calling the Roll of Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody A soldier, wounded during our last war, lay dying in his cot. Suddenly the deathlike stillness of the room was broken by the cry, “Here! Here!” which burst from the lips of the dying man. Friends rushed to the spot and asked what he wanted. Hark,” […]

Children to be Brought to Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody

Children to be Brought to Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody Hebrews 2:11-13For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,… There was a mother lay dying some time ago, and she requested her children to be brought to her […]

Christians Should not Encourage Wine Drinking – Dwight Lyman Moody

Christians Should not Encourage Wine Drinking – Dwight Lyman Moody 1 Timothy 5:23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your often infirmities. Some say, “You must not force your principles on other people. I am a teetotaler myself; I would not touch alcohol, but then I will put […]

Christ’s Love is an Individual Love – Dwight Lyman Moody

Christ’s Love is an Individual Love – Dwight Lyman Moody Galatians 2:20-21I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me… The great trouble is that people take everything in general, and do not take it to themselves. Suppose a man should say to me: “Moody, there was a […]

Climbing Up Some Other Way into Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody

Climbing Up Some Other Way into Heaven – Dwight Lyman Moody John 10:1-13Truly, truly, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way… I heard of a man some time ago who was going to get into heaven in his own way. He did […]

Coming to Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody

Coming to Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody John 6:37All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. I have read of an artist who wanted to paint a picture of the prodigal son. He searched through the mad-houses, and the poor-houses, […]

Cruelty to Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody

Cruelty to Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody Mark 12:1-12And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and dig a place for the winefat… Some time ago a father had a son who had broken his mother’s heart. After her death he went […]

Child Trained for Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody

Child Trained for Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody Deuteronomy 6:6-9And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:… A father whom I knew had a son who had long been ill and whose end was approaching. One day when he came home the mother told him that their child was […]