Charles Spurgeon

Don't Be a Minister

January 16, 2026 1 min read

I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry Don't be a minister if you can help it because if the man can help it God never called him But if he cannot help it and he must preach o

Are You a Ciceronian?

May 12, 2025 2 min read

Perhaps you know the legend or perhaps true history of the awakening of Augustine He dreamed that he died and went to the gates of Heaven and the keeper of the gates said to him Who are you And he ans

Phariseeism

August 24, 2024 1 min read

I do not hesitate to say that Phariseeism is mixed with Hyper-Calvinism more than with any other sect in the world Editor's note I tend to agree with Mr Spurgeon here It's ironic to me that the system

This Sickness is not unto Death

August 17, 2022 2 min read

This sickness is not unto death John 11 4 From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness Here is an unto within which its ultimate end is restrained and beyond which it cannot go Laz

Why Did God Create the World?

August 17, 2022 3 min read

Can your minds fly back to the time when there was no time-to the day when there was no day but the Ancient of Days Can you speed back to that period when God dwelt alone-when this round world and all

God's Religion is Spiritual!

August 15, 2022 1 min read

We need no altar or vestments or other paraphernalia We preach the gospel and exhort men to faith in Christ and have no need of robes and architecture and rubrics and ceremonies All that may sound ver

The Church's Greatest Need

August 15, 2022 2 min read

The greatest thing the church needs in this time is God's Holy Spirit You all get up plans and say Now if the church were altered a little bit it would go on better You think if there were different m

O You Vainglorious Churches!

August 15, 2022 2 min read

'Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit ' says the Lord Almighty Zech 4 6 Everybody may be saying How wondrously that church flourishes What power What influence What numbers And suddenly some rad

Salvation by Ceremonies?

August 14, 2022 2 min read

I turn with loathing from gaudily decorated churches dedicated to salvation by ceremonies daubed with paint smothered with glitter and bedizened with pictures dolls and all sorts of baby prettinesses

Give No Glory to this Rubbish!

August 14, 2022 2 min read

Alas alas It makes a Christian's blood boil to see glory given to a pack of scamps who call themselves priests Does it not make a man feel when you see pictures of 'his holiness' and the cardinals and

Let Me Take You Upstairs to Your Dying Chamber

August 12, 2022 2 min read

Look at actions which you have thought to be great and upon which you have prided yourself how will they look at the last You made money you made money fast you did it very cleverly you praised yourse

Oh Wonder of Wonders!

August 11, 2022 2 min read

For unto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given The government will be upon His shoulder-and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor Mighty God Everlasting Father Prince of Peace Isaiah 9 6 Oh

When We are Slandered it is a Joy

June 9, 2022 2 min read

It is of little use to appeal to our fellows on the matter of slander for the more we stir in it the more it spreads it is of no avail to appeal to the honour of the slanderers for they have none and

All Things are Ordained of God

March 23, 2022 1 min read

All things are ordained of God and are settled by Him according to His wise and holy predestination Whatever happens here happens not by chance but according to the counsel of the Most High The acts a

Love Thy Neighbor

March 12, 2022 2 min read

Thou shalt love thy neighbour Matthew 5 43 Love thy neighbour Perhaps he rolls in riches and thou art poor and living in thy little cot side-by-side with his lordly mansion thou seest every day his es

Bees and Wasps

January 13, 2022 1 min read

Every Christian who is not a bee is a wasp The most quarrelsome persons are the most useless and they who are the most happy and peaceable are generally those who are doing most for Christ We are not

He Will Carry Us Home

January 1, 2022 2 min read

And even to your old age I am he and even to hoar hairs will I carry you I have made and I will bear even I will carry and will deliver you Isa 46 4 The year is very old and here is a promise for our

Madam Trouble

September 26, 2021 1 min read

If you would find a man whose lips drop with pearls look for one who has been in the deep waters We seldom learn much except as it is beaten into us by the rod in Christ's schoolhouse under Madam Trou

How to Handle Criticism

September 15, 2021 7 min read

To opinions and remarks about yourself turn also as a general rule the blind eye and the deaf ear Public men must expect public criticism and as the public cannot be regarded as infallible public men

We Are Not at War with Any Man!

September 15, 2021 3 min read

Christian men are not at war with any man that walks the earth We are at war with infidelity but the persons of infidels we love and pray for we are at warfare with any heresy but we have no enmity ag