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Charles Spurgeon: 19 of the Best Articles on His Wisdom

Such a preacher has much to tell us today in the 21st century.  

Here are 19 lessons for pastors from Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

1. A Lesson From Charles Spurgeon on Evangelism: “If our preaching never saves a soul, and is not likely to do so, should we not better glorify God as peasants, or as tradesmen?  What honour can the Lord received from useless ministers?”

2. Charles Spurgeon: Preachers Need to Help People Understand their Need for Repentance Before Offering Hope:  “It will never do for men to be led to think that they are healed before they know that they are sick unto death, or to imagine that they are clothed before they see themselves to be naked, or to be taught to trust Christ before they are aware that they have anything for which they have need to trust Him.”

3. Christian George: What Charles Spurgeon Has to Say to the Church Today: “Just because a church is large doesn’t mean it’s healthy; it could just mean it’s swollen.”

4. 12 Preaching Tips From Charles Spurgeon: “Prayer will singularly assist you in the delivery of your sermon; in fact, nothing can so gloriously fit you to preach as descending fresh from the mount of communion with God to speak with men. None are so able to plead with men as those who have been wrestling with God on their behalf.”

5. “Advice for Seekers,” by Charles Spurgeon: “If you think about it, God’s value of heaven and yours are very different things. His salvation, when he set a price upon it, was to be brought to men only through the death of his Son. But you think that your good works can win the heaven which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, procured at the cost of his own blood! Do you dare to put your miserable life in comparison with the life of God’s obedient Son, who gave himself even to death? Does it not strike you that you are insulting God? If there is a way to heaven by works, why did he put his dear Son to all that pain and grief? Why the scenes of Gethsemane? Why the tragedy on Golgotha, when the thing could be done so easily another way? You insult the wisdom of God and the love of God.”

6. Morning & Evening, by Charles Spurgeon: “It is our duty and our privilege to wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust all the days of our life. Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.”

7. “Compel Them to Come In:” The Posture and Persuasion in the Preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “I exhort you, then, to look to Jesus and be [en]lightened. Sinner, you will never regret—I will be bondsman for my Master that you will never regret it—you will have no sigh to go back to your condemnation…”

8. 3 Ways the Holy Spirit Helped Spurgeon Preach: “Our hope of success, and our strength for continuing the service, lie in our belief that the Spirit of the Lord rest upon us.”

9. 3 Things You Didn’t Know About Spurgeon’s Wife: “two pilgrims treading this highway of life together, hand in hand—heart linked to heart.”

10. 3 Reasons You Should Read Spurgeon: “We are all far too prone to trust in something else instead of in God; and God is always jealous of these rivals.”