Posted in Christian Living, Discernment, Encouragement, Spurgeon on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
From “What Love Is This”
Even Spurgeon, in spite of his claim of being a staunch Calvinist, could not accept the teaching that regeneration came before faith in Christ through the gospel. Calvinists quote him when he supports them, but they ignore statements such as the following:
If I am to preach faith in Christ to a [...]
Posted in Spurgeon on August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From Charles Spurgeon (written in 1887 — there really is nothing new under the sun!):
An evil resides in the professed camp of the Lord so gross in its impudence that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an abnormal rate even for evil. It has worked [...]
Posted in Spurgeon on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The following excerpt is from “The Sword of the Spirit,” a sermon preached on Sunday April 19th, 1891, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London.
To be a Christian is to be a warrior. The good soldier of Jesus Christ must not expect to find ease in this world: it is a battle-field. Neither must he reckon upon [...]
Posted in Spurgeon on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“Some think it a great thing to be members of a popular sect, but when the great curtain rolls up, and all things are seen as they are, and not as they seem, do you not think that the church will be most commended which was truest to the teaching of the Holy Ghost in [...]
Posted in Spurgeon on June 8, 2007 | No Comments »
The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the spirit of the gospel.
Yet nevertheless, the [...]
