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Sermon Of The Week: “The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved”

March 27, 2025

Have you ever considered the gift that sleep is? “Sleep, sleep, my child; I give thee sleep.” Spurgeon teaches that such is the blessing which the Lord grants to His beloved. From Psalm 127:2, he conveys that the gift of sleep is a tangibly sweet blessing of God which ought to be enjoyed and appreciated, …

Just As Near to Heaven: The Death of Annie Dunn

March 19, 2025

Annie Dunn loved her church. She was the daughter of J. T. Dunn, an elder at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Under Spurgeon’s preaching, it was in the church that she came to hear the gospel of grace and love her Savior. Eventually, she professed her faith in Christ through baptism and joined the church. Now, as …

Spurgeon’s Love of Hymns and Poetry

March 14, 2025

This edited excerpt comes from Christ Our All: Poems for the Christian Pilgrim, a never-before-published collection of Spurgeon's private devotional poems. For a limited time, download a free copy here. Spurgeon’s love of poetry can be seen today in the Spurgeon Library in Kansas City, MO. In his collection, we find over 200 books of poetry …

Sermon Of The Week: “Christ’s First and Last Subject”

March 14, 2025

What was the subject matter with which Christ bookended His earthly ministry? This subject was His command of repentance to all His hearers, and more broadly, to the whole world. Spurgeon noted that “nothing could set forth Jesus Christ's idea of the high value of repentance, more fully and effectually than the fact that he …

Sermon Of The Week: “Turn or Burn”

March 4, 2025

Why is God’s justice such an integral part of salvation? God’s just nature demands that sin be punished, and it is only a result of His mercy through Christ that we can be saved from that punishment.  Grace and mercy are attributes of God’s character which ought to be preached in accordance with His righteous justice, …

Sermon Of The Week: “A Wise Desire”

February 25, 2025

Who is it who chooses our portion and reward in life? Surely it can be perceived that we do not simply will and receive that which we always want. No, our eternal heritage does not rest in our own power or choice, but rather lies in the sovereign will of our good and gracious Lord. …

Sermon Of The Week: “Preaching! Man’s Privilege and God’s Power”

February 17, 2025

What is the means by which God’s ministers draw lost souls to the hope of the Savior? It is not the mere wisdom of man that leads souls to salvation, but the faithful teaching of God’s own inspired revelation which “pierces to the division of soul and of spirit.” The preaching of God’s word contains …

Sermon Of The Week: “Pride and Humility”

February 10, 2025

The great sin of pride is a snare into which we fall all too easily, and its deceitful road leads only to destruction. Spurgeon declares that “There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride, and yet there is no vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently …

Sermon Of The Week: “Heavenly Worship”

February 3, 2025

Too often, our worship here on earth can be focused on the wrong things: how we feel, the quality of the music, the circumstances of our gatherings, and other inferior matters. But in this sermon, Spurgeon reflects on how the worship of heaven should be a model or template for our worship here on earth. When …

The United Prayer Meeting of 1865

January 31, 2025

One of the hallmarks of C. H. Spurgeon’s ministry was his Monday night congregational prayer meeting. Each week, thousands of members of the Metropolitan Tabernacle gathered to pray for the ministries of the church and preaching of the Word. This was one of the pieces of evidence that a genuine revival was taking place: the …