Charles Spurgeon: The Prince of Preachers
Ebook
Overview
For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In Charles Spurgeon, you’ll get to know the English Baptist who became known as “the Prince of Preachers”—a man who led a 6,000-seat “megachurch” decades before the term was coined, and whose sermons and writings are still readable a hundred years after his death. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like Charles Spurgeon.
From the Back Cover
A great tabernacle was once built for a great preacher.
Such were Charles Spurgeon’s preaching gifts that London’s six-thousand-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle was built in 1861 just to accommodate his followers. He continued to fill the pews until his death thirty years later.
Rejecting his father’s Congregationalism, sixteen-year-old Charles first took a Baptist pastorate near Cambridge, England. A powerful evangelist with an appealing sense of humor, he delivered countless sermons that are still read and enjoyed today.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon remains a role model for seminarians and seasoned pastors alike as the beloved “prince of preachers.”
Top Highlights
“Great preachers like Spurgeon speak to the universal humanity. They touch on chords familiar to everyone. They hold up no vague, beautiful ideal, but the truth that all can recognize.” (source)
“Baptists have had age-old hostility to authoritative creeds. Baptists stand for liberty, the right of each individual to receive the truth from the Lord.” (source)
“Natural but not vulgar, he was blunt, sometimes almost brutal, with his words. With skilled art and absolute honesty, he described things as they were.” (source)
“All through his preaching, Spurgeon related the gospel of Christ to questions of conduct. His standard was Christlikeness.” (source)
“Spurgeon made three charges: 1) that the plenary inspiration of the scriptures was denied and thus the authority of the Bible was undermined, 2) that the vicarious nature of the death of Christ was not preached, and, therefore, the way of salvation was not made known, and 3) that the doctrine of future punishment had given place to the idea of universal restoration and had weakened the motives for godly living.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Charles Spurgeon: The Prince of Preachers
- Author: Harmon, Dan
- Publisher: Barbour Books
- Publication Date: 2013
- ISBN: 9781624160547