October 25, 2016

Even Superman had to fly above the clouds to escape the deafening screams of the people. Spurgeon sought his own space, too – his sacred space in France – away from the fog and smog that settled over his city. Absence from ministry was as essential for Spurgeon as presence in his pulpit. Yet even on the sunny shores …

October 18, 2016

Spurgeon’s favorite book was The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. It’s the story of a man named Christian who woke up one morning to find a burden on his back. He reads in a book his city would be destroyed, so he sets out on a pilgrimage. The road is seldom smooth. He falls into a mud-pit of despond, …

September 29, 2016

On April 23, 1888, Charles Spurgeon was betrayed by his brother, James. It all came to a head when Spurgeon withdrew his membership from the Baptist Union. Spurgeon lamented the absence of a confession of faith keeping Baptists from drifting away from evangelical doctrines. He feared the downgrading of theology would produce an “emptying of chapels, …

September 6, 2016

Carl F. H. Henry was right to call Charles Spurgeon “one of evangelical Christianity’s immortals” (Carl. F. H. Henry in the foreword to Lewis Drummond, Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers). In his twenties, Spurgeon pastored the largest mega-church in Protestant Christendom. London’s most cavernous buildings could hardly accommodate his crowds – and one of them even collapsed. American …