November 9, 2017

The fact that you are reading this article indicates with a high degree of certainty that you have been depressed. If this is the case, you should be encouraged to know that you are not alone. The one we dub the “Prince of Preachers” was just that because he was also the “Prince of Pain.” …

July 11, 2017

An artist once tried to paint a portrait of Charles Spurgeon. After much frustration he said, “I can’t paint you. Your face is different every day. You are never the same.” To be sure, the most popular preacher in the Victoria era was also one of the most burdened. Spurgeon owned more than thirty books on mental …

July 15, 1888

A Discourse to the Despairing   “Now when Jacob saw that there was com in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not …

Genesis:42:1-2

June 3, 1888

To the Saddest of the Sad   “And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.” — Exodus vi. 9.   LITTLE words often contain great meanings. It is often the case with that monosyllable “so” In the present instance we must lay stress upon …

Exodus:6:9