From the Heart of Spurgeon

It is not always easy to hold together the indicatives of the gospel (what God has done in salvation) with the imperatives of the gospel (the demands of and responses to the gospel). Spurgeon does so here masterfully, holding up the finished work of Christ both for adoration and emulation, as something for us to rest in for our souls and to copy in our lives. It is a stirring call to Christian ser...

Spurgeon is too faithful an ambassador of Christ to leave the stones of our hearts unturned. This sermon is particularly penetrating, as he surveys the hidden sins that many try to hold in their hearts unknown to others. Pressing hard, the preacher points out the folly, misery, guilt and danger of secret sins, especially in the hearts of hypocrites, but also in the experience of God’s people, befo...

Here we zero in on Christ’s might as Mediator, as the God-man willing and able to accomplish a ‘big picture’ salvation for all his chosen ones, a salvation that is not momentary, shallow, or incomplete, but which really, absolutely and permanently accomplishes their deliverance and assures them of all needful grace to bring them safely to glory. He finds here encouragements for preachers, for pray...

This wonderful sermon follows on from #93 on “God in the Covenant.” Enthusiastically, energetically, overwhelmingly, Spurgeon sets forth the wonders of Christ in himself, and what it means to know him, and to possess him in the covenant of grace. Pressing home these blessings into the experience of believers, Spurgeon then pleads with those who know Christ in the covenant to act accordingly, and w...

This is a more evangelistic sermon, and as such serves a good purpose for self-examination, as well as helping us to pray for those who preach and hear the gospel, and instructing us as to how we might ourselves press the claims of Christ upon those whom we love. Of course, almost incidentally but substantially, Spurgeon holds up the beauty and the glory of the Christ who is so often slighted and...

Jeremy sat down with John Snyder, cohost of The Whole Counsel podcast to discuss why we enjoy and benefit from reading old writers. The duo also share some of the dangers and abuses of reading old books and sermons. At the end of the episode, Jeremy and John share their "beginner's list" or reading old writers. If you would like a list of all the books they mention, with links of where to get them...

Spurgeon is a Particular Baptist, following in the footsteps of those who held fast to the God of the covenant. Here he holds up and holds out the crowning jewel of the blessing of the new covenant: that God becomes our God. Setting this jewel in the context of his covenant theology, he traces out and presses home what it means for God to be the God of his people in the deepest and richest sense....

Omniscience refers to the perfect and complete knowledge of God. From the simple reminder that God is the all-seeing God, Spurgeon develops not only a general doctrine of God’s knowledge, but also brings it to bear on the heart of every one of his hearers (and readers), before pressing it home with sweet comforts to the godly and faithful warnings to the unbeliever.  For more episodes and likemind...

Spurgeon’s simplicity and spiritual sweetness are on delightful display in this sermon on John 17:16, that Christ’s people are not of the world, just as Christ was not of the world. With some surprisingly straightforward insights and a crisp structure, Spurgeon looks at the doctrinal, experiental and practical implications and applications of our union and communion with Christ in this regard. For...

When the Apostles preached, they always emphasized the necessity of the resurrection of the dead. Spurgeon challenged his church as to whether or not they really believed in the resurrection. Using a battery of texts, Spurgeon shows us not only the importance of believing in the life to come after death, but the comfort it offers every Christian. For more episodes and likeminded podcasts, visit me...

You may know of Spurgeon’s affection for the great allegory of Christian experience by John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. Here we see something of the debt Spurgeon owed to Bunyan in his imagination. While he hangs it all on the Word of God, Spurgeon uses an illustration or image from Bunyan as the central theme of his sermon, calling God’s people to avoid spiritual sleepiness, and be wakeful an...

An instructive example of Spurgeon reading his Bible with the expectation of finding Christ. Looking at the Old Testament through the lens of the new, here Spurgeon draws out parallels between the Passover lamb and Christ as the Lamb of God. Having drawn out those connections, he then emphasizes the needs not only to come to Christ but also to keep in Christ, to live by him and in him. Not only do...

The person and work of the Holy Spirit looms large in Spurgeon’s ministry. While the Holy Spirit’s ministry is implicit in many of his declaration so confidence, here is a wonderful declaration—clear and warm—of the operations of the Holy Ghost in leading us into all truth. Here is some of the blessed supernaturalism of true Christianity, and here is an insight into Spurgeon’s own expectant depend...

Perhaps not the smoothest of Spurgeon’s sermons, but nonetheless direct and earnest for that. Contending from church history and revealed truth for the fact that God chooses sinners, in sovereign mercy, for salvation, he turns the doctrine in different directions to challenge, comfort, encourage, exhort and invite. The outcome is a sweet and potent testimony to God’s grace in redemption.  Connect...

Combining both a study of the thing with the thing itself, Spurgeon shows us what it means to preach the gospel. His sense of this is properly broad and yet rightly narrow, and at once exposes human pride and imposes a real duty, to be pursued in all humility and dependence on the Holy Ghost. If we want to exalt Christ in our preaching, we would do well to learn what is spoken here. For more infor...

This sermon shows Spurgeon's gospel heart and burns with gospel heat: it gives us a window into the conviction, intensity, and fervency of a man taken up with the truth and laboring under a sense of it. It illuminates the mind and warms the affections in equal measure, as Spurgeon lays out the importance not only of preaching, but also of understanding and receiving God's gospel. For more content...

Spurgeon calls Isaiah 43:25 a “salvation text”—a portion of God’s Word that seems particularly suited by God for calling and bringing sinners to himself. With this eager confidence, he labours to speak plainly to the his congregation as sinners who need mercy, delights in the blotting out of transgression in a demonstration of mercy, traces mercy back to its root in the sovereign love of a graciou...

Such simplicity, such straightforwardness! Taking Acts 4:13 as his starting point, Spurgeon asks whether or not we show that we have been with Jesus. He asks what a Christian should be, when a Christian should be so, why he should be so, and how he can be so. Then he holds Christ before us as we see him in the Scriptures, urging principled obedience in the power of the Spirit at all times and in a...

Based on Hosea 8:12, preached very early in his ministry, Spurgeon plants a flag that emphasizes the clarity and sufficiency of God's revelation of Himself. Connect with the Reading Spurgeon Community on Twitter https://twitter.com/ReadingSpurgeon For more content like this, visit www.mediagratiae.org

"Christ Crucified" is a stirring sermon of striking tones which helped earn Spurgeon the nickname 'Brimstone' among the cartoonists of the day. After exposing the emptiness of religious formalism and arrogant secularism, Spurgeon makes clear that Christ and him crucified—the doctrines of sovereign grace—is God’s wisdom for salvation. We trace out the structure of the sermon, and aim to grasp somet...

As we set out to read the sermons of Charles Spurgeon, we must take a moment to and consider the weight of the undertaking we are pursuing, and the best way to go about it. Read humbly. Read expectantly. Cry out from your heart to God to hear his voice and his truth in these sermons.

"The Immutability of God" is the first sermon in the New Park Street Pulpit collection. Spurgeon was twenty years old when it was preached, and had been serving in London for about a year, already attracting much attention by his ministry. The sermon, from Malachi 3:6, presents an unchanging God, identifies “the sons of Jacob” who benefit from his immutability, and considers the benefit they deriv...

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