From the Heart of Spurgeon

Preach the Gospel (Sermon 34)

Combining both a study of the thing with the thing itself, Spurgeon shows us what it means to preach the gospel. His sense of this is properly broad and yet rightly narrow, and at once exposes human pride and imposes a real duty, to be pursued in all humility and dependence on the Holy Ghost. If we want to exalt Christ in our preaching, we would do well to learn what is spoken here.

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Lively Reading: Preach the Gospel (Sermon 34)

This sermon shows Spurgeon's gospel heart and burns with gospel heat: it gives us a window into the conviction, intensity, and fervency of a man taken up with the truth and laboring under a sense of it. It illuminates the mind and warms the affections in equal measure, as Spurgeon lays out the importance not only of preaching, but also of understanding and receiving God's gospel.

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Forgiveness (Sermon 24)

Spurgeon calls Isaiah 43:25 a “salvation text”—a portion of God’s Word that seems particularly suited by God for calling and bringing sinners to himself. With this eager confidence, he labours to speak plainly to the his congregation as sinners who need mercy, delights in the blotting out of transgression in a demonstration of mercy, traces mercy back to its root in the sovereign love of a gracious God, and then holds out the promise of mercy to all who come to Christ.

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Imitators of Christ

Such simplicity, such straightforwardness! Taking Acts 4:13 as his starting point, Spurgeon asks whether or not we show that we have been with Jesus.

He asks what a Christian should be, when a Christian should be so, why he should be so, and how he can be so. Then he holds Christ before us as we see him in the Scriptures, urging principled obedience in the power of the Spirit at all times and in all places, for the sake of our own souls, the honor of true religion, and the glory of Christ himself.

 

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The Bible

Based on Hosea 8:12, preached very early in his ministry, Spurgeon plants a flag that emphasizes the clarity and sufficiency of God's revelation of Himself.

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Christ Crucified

"Christ Crucified" is a stirring sermon of striking tones which helped earn Spurgeon the nickname 'Brimstone' among the cartoonists of the day. After exposing the emptiness of religious formalism and arrogant secularism, Spurgeon makes clear that Christ and him crucified—the doctrines of sovereign grace—is God’s wisdom for salvation. We trace out the structure of the sermon, and aim to grasp something of the preacher’s fervour.

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From One Heart to Another

As we set out to read the sermons of Charles Spurgeon, we must take a moment to and consider the weight of the undertaking we are pursuing, and the best way to go about it. Read humbly. Read expectantly. Cry out from your heart to God to hear his voice and his truth in these sermons.

Lively Reading: The Immutability of God (Malachi 3:6)

"The Immutability of God" is the first sermon in the New Park Street Pulpit collection. Spurgeon was twenty years old when it was preached, and had been serving in London for about a year, already attracting much attention by his ministry. The sermon, from Malachi 3:6, presents an unchanging God, identifies “the sons of Jacob” who benefit from his immutability, and considers the benefit they derive—that they are not consumed. Having outlined something of the majesty of the eternal God, Spurgeon drives home his kindness to his chosen people, and urges each one to make the most of the blessings the unchanging God holds out in Christ Jesus.

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Introduction

Hear the story behind the creation of From the Heart of Spurgeon, what we hope to accomplish with this podcast, and how you can participate, even if reading one sermon a day is intimidating.