This week my sermon series in John’s Gospel takes me to John 3:9-15. In my study I came across a sermon by Spurgeon entitled “Man’s Ruin and God’s Remedy.” In that sermon Spurgeon spoke of Christ and said, “The hand that poises the world hangs on a nail. See Him. The shoulders that supported the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »May 8, Spurgeon on Prayer
Spurgeon said, You may not always be in the exercise but you may always be in the spirit of prayer. If there shall not always be iron in the furnace to melt, yet let there always be the fire to melt it, if not always shooting the arrow up to heaven, yet always keep the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »March 6, Doing Away with the Smell of Sin!
I love this quote from Spurgeon on heaven, “I do not know what better world, in many respects, there could be than this, so far as material nature is concerned. It is so full of the beauty and loveliness that God pours upon it on every side. It is a wonderful world. But I could [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Feb 17, Leaving the Dross Behind!
“Oh, my brothers and sisters, let this be an assured truth to us that we do not put the body into the grave to lose it. We put the body there as the chemist puts the gold into the furnace; it shall come out the same as its gold, but the dross shall be [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Jan 27, The Roar of Heaven
I’ve been reading Randy Alcorn’s devotional book, We Shall See God, which is a 50 day devotional centering around Spurgeon’s thoughts about heaven. Yesterday I was blown away with his thoughts about ‘Heavenly Worship’ and especially around the sound of the singing in heaven. He said, “You are to suppose ocean piled upon ocean, sea [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Aug 22, It is Monday, but Sunday’s Coming!
I wake up every single Monday with the realization that “It is Monday, but Sunday’s Coming.” I love the process of taking God’s Word, studying it, praying over it, and seeing it develop into a sermon. Once the manuscript is written I find myself pouring over it, changing it, adding to it, taking away from [...]
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