We Don’t Believe You!
Thielicke responds to Spurgeon’s insistence on the necessity for the farmer to sharpen his scythe (the need for Sabbath, for rest, for sabbatical, for vacation, for refreshment, as well as for...
View ArticleStock-Fish and Dentures
I am sure I will come back to both Thielicke and Spurgeon in the days to come, but let’s end this Thielicke on Spurgeon week with another hefty paragraph. In a sense it brings us full circle, back to...
View ArticleLove People To Jesus
Lacking motivation for anything productive (post-preaching experience, anyone?), I decided to dip into Thielicke’s Encounter with Spurgeon again. Guess how many paragraphs I had to read before being...
View ArticlePreacher, Use Strategy
I typically teach with reference to the arrow and the target (i.e. the main idea and the message purpose respectively). In order to deliver the arrow to hit the target, strategy is necessary. This...
View ArticleOkay, One More Spurgeon Quote
Honestly, I’m at Keswick this week, moving on Monday, and a little overwhelmed, so I am resorting to an easy source for quality thought-provoking material. Spurgeon. Following on from yesterday and...
View ArticleImpositional Preaching
Some of the greatest preachers of recent history have built sermons on single verses. I tend not to do that. Am I saying I know better than them? Dr Lloyd-Jones, not to mention Spurgeon, and others,...
View ArticlePreacher, What Do You See?
This is an important question. If you can’t see what you’re preaching, then your listeners won’t see it either. That’s true with Bible stories and illustrations and applications and visionary...
View ArticleSome Spurgeon Preaching Thoughts
I’ve recently been reading Michael Reeves’ excellent book, Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Crossway, 2018). As you would expect, Spurgeon said a lot that can be helpful to preachers....
View ArticleA Spurgeon Preaching Thought: Bible
“Love your Bibles. Keep close to your Bibles.” Perhaps one of the greatest privileges of the preacher is also one of the greatest dangers: time with the Bible. We have to go above and beyond a casual...
View ArticleSay It
CH Spurgeon’s conversion is one of the great conversion stories in church history. Feeling under heavy conviction and longing to find out how to be saved, he set off for church one January Sunday...
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