Destroyed liy Conviction of Sin – Charles Spurgeon
Destroyed liy Conviction of Sin – Charles Spurgeon The squirrel in his wire cage continually in motion but making no progress, reminds me of my own self-righteous efforts after salvation, but the little creature is never one half so wearied by his exertions as 1 was by mine. The poor chiffonier in Paris trying to […]
DELILAH-Hankered-Charles -Spurgeon
DELILAH-Hankered – Charles Spurgeon The Rev. B. Jacobs, of Cambridge port, could, when necessary, administer reproof very forcibly, though the gen- gentleness of his character was always seen in the manner in which it was done. Some young ladies at his house were one day talking about one of their female friends. As he entered […]
Dwarfs Spiritual – Charles H Spurgeon
Dwarfs Spiritual – Charles H Spurgeon There was once in London a club of small men, whose qualification for membership lay in their not exceeding five feet in height; these dwarfs held, or pretended to hold, the opinion that they were nearer the perfection of manhood than others, for they argued that primeval men had […]
Double Mindedness – Charles H Spurgeon
Double Mindedness – Charles H Spurgeon Faraday notes that whilst at breakfast at Liangollen, he heard a Welsh harper playing in very excellent style, and he adds, ‘wishing to gratify myself with a sight of the interesting bard I went to the door and beheld: The boots! I must confess I was sadly disappointed and […]
Doubts Foolish – Charles H Spurgeon
Doubts Foolish – Charles H Spurgeon A Christian once, in doubt and discouragement, considered the darkness that overspread her soul as a proof that she was finally cast away. She stumbled over mole-hills when she should have been removing mountains. To an old minister who was trying to comfort her, with impassioned emphasis she said, […]
Doing Good A Blessing To Ourselves – Charles H Spurgeon
Doing Good A Blessing To Ourselves – Charles H Spurgeon If we view this microcosm, the human body, we shall fin that the heart does not receive the blood to store it up, but while it pumps it in at one valve, it sen4s it forth at another The blood is always circulating everywhere, and […]
Doctrines Ultra Calvinistic – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines Ultra Calvinistic – Charles H Spurgeon Griffiths says that travelers in Turkey carry with them lozenges of opium, on which is stamped ‘mash Allah,’ the gift of God. Too many sermons are just such lozenges. Grace is preached but duty denied. Divine predestination is cried up but human responsibility is rejected. Such teaching ought […]
Doctrines (Mysterious) To Be Believed – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines (Mysterious) To Be Believed – Charles H Spurgeon Those huge boulders which lie along the valley of Storo in the Tyrol, are of a granite unknown in the neighbourhood; they must have come from a great distance. Now it might be hard to explain the method by which they arrived in the valley, but […]
Doctrines Of Grace – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines Of Grace – Charles H Spurgeon Our forefathers were very fond of clipping their plants and training their flowers into quaint and grotesque forms; so that we read of great guns wrought in rosemary and sweet briers. He would have been very foolish who would have trembled at cannons which only shot forth flowers […]
Doctrines False 2 – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines False 2 – Charles H Spurgeon There are no greater foes to sheep than wild dogs. In dome regions, sheep were no longer to be found, because these fierce creatures utterly devoured the flocks. The church has never had worse enemies than false teachers; infidels and persecutors do but mild injury to her, but […]
Doctrines False – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines False – Charles H Spurgeon In ‘Babbage’s Economy of Manufactures,’ we are told that ‘some years since, a mode of preparing old clover an trefoil seeds, by a process called ‘doctoring,’ became se prevalent as to attract the attention of the House of Commons. By this process old and worthless seed was rendered in […]
Doctrines Duplicate Nature Of – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines Duplicate Nature Of – Charles H Spurgeon First to the right, then to the left, the road was ever ascending but always twisting, and thus, by easy marches, we were able to reach the summit of the pass; a straight line would have been shorter for the eagle’s wing, but no human foot could […]
Doctrines Not For Controversy – Charles H Spurgeon
Doctrines Not For Controversy – Charles H Spurgeon ‘A huge fragment of rock from an adjacent cliff fell upon horizontal part of the hill below, which was occupied by the gardens and vineyards of two peasants. It covered part of the property of each, nor could it be easily decided to whom the unexpected visitor […]
Divine Goodness Unceasing – Charles H Spurgeon
Divine Goodness Unceasing – Charles H Spurgeon It is by no means pleasant when reading an interesting article in your magazine to find yourself pulled up short with the ominous words, ‘to be continued.’ Yet they are words of good cheer if applied to other matters. What a comfort to remember that the Lord’s mercy […]
Disposition Distorting – Charles H Spurgeon
Disposition Distorting – Charles H Spurgeon How terribly bad looking-glasses distort the countenance the man who looks into one of them sees his hair disheveled, his forehead smutty, his nose blotched, his eyes out of line, and a dozen other imaginary mischiefs. How like to those morbid, melancholy dispositions which pervert everything into gloom, and […]
Discontent Chronic With Some – Charles H Spurgeon
Discontent Chronic With Some – Charles H Spurgeon ‘Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity. Even when they have their own way, they like it […]
Diligence – Charles H Spurgeon
Diligence – Charles H Spurgeon Select a large box and place in it as many cannon-balls as it will hold, it is after a fashion full, but it will hold more if smaller matters be found. Bring a quantity of marbles, very ,amy of these may be packed in the spaces between the larger globes; […]
Dignity Of Christian Character To Be Maintained – Charles H Spurgeon
Dignity Of Christian Character To Be Maintained – Charles H Spurgeon Antisthenes, the founder of the sect of the Cynics, when he was told that Ismenias played excellently upon the flute, answered properly enough, ‘Then he is good for nothing else, otherwise he would not have played so well.’ Such also was Philip’s saying to […]
Destitution Of London – Charles H Spurgeon
Destitution Of London – Charles H Spurgeon We have no reason to congratulate ourselves on what we are doing, if we only think of the great work which still buried amid the ruins of Nineveh. In excavating this vas population you have as it were laid bare the head of a huge winged bull, until […]
Despondency Its Quick Eye For Evils – Charles H Spurgeon
Despondency Its Quick Eye For Evils – Charles H Spurgeon My friend Smith told me, that once on a time he had Mr. Jones to preach in his church. Smith’s church holds fifteen hundred people, and is perfectly filled by its congregation, of this circumstance Smith is pardonably proud. When Mr. Jones preached, the church […]
Despondency – Charles H Spurgeon-
Despondency – Charles H Spurgeon Colton declares that in moments of despondency Shakespeare thought himself no poet; and Raphael doubted his right to be called a painter. We call such self-suspicions morbid, and ascribe them to a hypochondriacal fit; in what other way can we speak of those doubts as to their saintship, which occasionally […]
Deep Things Understood By Experienced Men – Charles H Spurgeon
Deep Things Understood By Experienced Men – Charles H Spurgeon The outlay in opening a mine is usually so great that the Spaniards say, that to prepare a mine one must spend another mine. To open up the hidden preciousness of the promises, we need a mine of experience, and to gain this last a […]
Decision For Christ – Charles H Spurgeon
Decision For Christ – Charles H Spurgeon A Changed Attitude It was Napoleon Bonaparte who, early in his life, said, “God is on the side of the biggest artillery.” Years later, when he was exiled on an island, he reversed his opinion, and conceded, “Man proposes, but God disposes.” Napoleon learned the attitude of “If […]
Death Its Revealing Power – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Its Revealing Power – Charles H Spurgeon Today the world is like a masquerade. High carnival is being held, and men wear their masks and dominoes, and strut about, and we think that man a king, and this a mighty Oriental prince, and this a haughty Indian chief. But the time is over for […]
Death Realized – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Realized – Charles H Spurgeon When Bernard Gilpin was privately informed that his enemies had caused thirty-two articles to be drawn up against him in the strongest manner, and presented to Bonner, bishop of London, he said to his favorite domestic, At length they have prevailed against me. I am accused to the bishop […]
Death Peace In – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Peace In – Charles H Spurgeon The late Mr. Young of Jedburgh, was once visiting the death-bed of an aged member of his congregation, who was hourly looking for his last change. ‘Well, my friend,’ said the minister, ‘how do you feel yourself to-day?’ ‘Very weel, sir,’ was the calm and solemn answer, ‘Very […]
Death Differently Viewed By Different Characters – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Differently Viewed By Different Characters – Charles H Spurgeon It is a blessed thing to know the Savior, and to feel that your soul is safe. You have been in a ship when it entered the harbor, and you have noticed the different looks of the passengers as they turned their eyes ashore. There […]
Death Desired By Few – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Desired By Few – Charles H Spurgeon Burckhardt states, that although the Arabs are strict predestinarians, yet when the plague visited Medina, many of the townsmen fled to the desert, alleging as an excuse that although the distemper was a messenger from heaven sent to call them to a better world, yet being conscious […]
Death Of A Believer – Charles H Spurgeon
Death Of A Believer – Charles H Spurgeon Old Mr. Lyford being desired, a little before his death, to let his friends know in what condition his soul was, and what his thoughts were about that eternity to which he seemed very near, he answered with a cheerfulness suitable to a believer and a minister, […]
Death 2 – Charles H Spurgeon
Death 2 – Charles H Spurgeon The hour of death may be fitly likened to that celebrated picture in the National Gallery, of Perseus holding up the head of Medusa. That head turned all persons into stone who looked upon it. There is a warrior represented with a dart in his hand; he stands stiffened, […]
Death – Charles H Spurgeon
Death – Charles H Spurgeon ‘Paid the debt of nature.’ No; it is not paying a debt; it is rather like bringing a note to the bank to obtain solid gold in exchange for it. In this case you bring this cumbrous body which is nothing worth, and which you could not wish to retain […]
Day By Day 2 – Charles H Spurgeon
Day By Day 2 – Charles H Spurgeon A person says, ‘I cannot understand how I am to get along when I leave my father’s house.’ Why should you see it till that time comes? What if a person going on a journey of five years should undertake to carry provisions, and clothes, and gold […]
Day By Day – Charles H Spurgeon
Day By Day – Charles H Spurgeon A celebrated modern writer says, ‘Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.’ This is an admirable remark, and might be very seasonably recollected when we begin to be ‘weary in well-doing,’ from the thought of having much to do. The present moment […]
Danger Of The Christian – Charles H Spurgeon
Danger Of The Christian – Charles H Spurgeon When the instructed Christian sees his surroundings, he finds himself to be like a defenceless dove flying to her nest, while against her tens of thousands of arrows are levelled. The Christian life is like that dove’s anxious flight, as it threads its way between the death-bearing […]
Dancing – Charles H Spurgeon
Dancing – Charles H Spurgeon When I hear of a dancing party I fed an uneasy: about the throat, remembering that a far greater preacher had his head danced off in the days of our Lord. However pleasing the polkas of Herodias might be to Herod, they were death to John the Baptist. The caperings […]
Don’t Try to Get out of Work
Don’t Try to Get out of Work William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name “O. Henry,” became one of the most popular authors in America at the turn of the last century. He wrote for years, but his literary career really took off from a most unlikely place—prison. Porter had been convicted of […]
Do You Know Me?
Do You Know Me? The story is told of a prosecuting attorney in a small town courthouse called his first witness, an elderly woman, to the stand. He approached her and asked, “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?” She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a […]
Don’t Let Down Your Guard
Don’t Let Down Your Guard It was a stifling hot morning that August in Hiroshima, Japan. In 1945, citizens feared a pending air strike from the allied forces of World War II. Many people were evacuating belongings from their homes and making preparation for their safety. Hiroshima was one of the largest cities in Japan […]
Dangerous Fools
Dangerous Fools On July 6, 2011, a hiker, Brian Matayoshi, was attacked by a female grizzly bear near the Wapiti Lake trail in Yellowstone National Park. He and his wife were visiting the park as hundreds of thousands do each year. Apparently they surprised the mother grizzly and her cubs. The National Park Service issued […]
Delivering the Most Important Message
Delivering the Most Important Message John Currier was found guilty of murder in 1949 and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee. In 1968, Currier’s sentence was terminated, and a letter bearing the good news was sent to him. But John never saw the letter, […]
Don’t Refuse Your Pardon
Don’t Refuse Your Pardon In 1830 George Wilson was convicted of robbing the U.S. Mail and was sentenced to be hanged. President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon for Wilson, but he refused to accept it. The matter went to Chief Justice John Marshall, who concluded that Wilson would have to be executed. “A pardon is […]
Don’t Take Chances With Sin
Don’t Take Chances With Sin In 1982, ABC Evening News reported about a new invention—a chair affixed to a shotgun. It was to be viewed by sitting in the chair and looking directly into the gun barrel. The gun was loaded and set on a timer to fire at an undetermined moment within the next […]
Don’t Put off Salvation
Don’t Put off Salvation The Titanic’s captain did not believe the ship was sinking until water was ankle deep in the mail room. At that point he realized that the unsinkable ship was sinking. Ships that could have helped rescue the people on board were not asked to help early enough and did not arrive in […]
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt On Sunday February 18, 2001, Nascar lost one of its greatest drivers. Dale Earnhardt, also known as “The Intimidator,” was in third place on the last lap of the Daytona 500 when his car was tapped from behind and sent head-on into the wall at 180 mph. In a matter of moments it […]
Doing God’s Business
Doing God’s Business As D. L. Moody walked down a Chicago street one day, he walked up to a man and asked him if he were a Christian. The fellow raised his fists and angrily exclaimed, “You mind your own business!” “This is my business,” replied Moody. “Well, then, you must be Moody,” the man […]
Dr. James Dobson writes in “Preparing For Adolescence-George Mueller
Dr. James Dobson writes in “Preparing For Adolescence-George Mueller • Dr. James Dobson writes in “Preparing For Adolescence” that there are several important things to note about emotions (Pgs. 124-136): o They are cyclical-no one stays up to long or down to long…we go from high to low and back again. o Don’t rely solely […]
Do Not Soften Sin
Do Not Soften Sin Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman told of a distinguished minister, Dr. Howard, from Australia who preached very strongly on the subject of sin. After the service, one of the church officers came to counsel with him in the study. “Dr. Howard,” he said, “we don’t want you to talk as openly as […]
Definiton of Worship
Definiton of Worship “Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.” “For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of […]
Definition of Salvation
Definition of Salvation “Saving faith may thus be defined as voluntary turning from all hope and grounds based on self merit, and assuming an attitude of expectancy toward God, trusting Him to do a perfect saving work based only on the merit of Christ.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Do the Most Important Things First
Do the Most Important Things First Industrialist Charles Schwab was a key figure in Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire. Frustrated with his inability to get everything done, he once reluctantly agreed to meet with a consultant named Ivy Lee, who was recommended to him by John D. Rockefeller. Schwab had little use for consultants, but since […]
Don’t Leave Jesus Out
Don’t Leave Jesus Out Adolph Menzel created a painting titled Frederick the Great’s Address to His Generals Before the Battle of Leuthen. This historical piece depicts Frederick’s speech to his generals in December 1757 during the Seven Years’ War before their famous battle in Silesia against the Austrians. Menzel worked on it from 1859-1861, but never […]
David Livingstone’s Prayer
David Livingstone’s Prayer David Livingstone was a pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethren. He prayed, “Send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. Sever any ties but the tie […]
Do You Believe the Gospel?
Do You Believe the Gospel? Some time ago an 18-year-old girl from Washington state attended a worship service. For the first time in her life she heard the gospel message. The following Tuesday the members of the church received a letter from her. It read: Dear Church Members:Last Sunday I attended your church, and I […]
Dwelling Together
Dwelling Together “To dwell above with those we love, oh that will be glory; to dwell below with those we know, well that’s another story.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Dead Turkeys
Dead Turkeys A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, “Do these turkeys get any bigger?” The stock boy replied, “No ma’am, they’re dead.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Dreaming of Engagement
Dreaming of Engagement A young fellow once said to his girlfriend: “I dreamed about you last night.” Naturally, she was intrigued and wanted to know all about it. He said, “I dreamed that I proposed to you. I wonder what that means!” She said, “That’s very simple, “It means that you have more sense when […]
Despair Is Contagious
Despair Is Contagious There was a fellow who was about to jump from a bridge. An alert police officer slowly and methodically moved toward him, talking with him all the time. When the officer got within inches of the man he said, “Surely nothing could be bad enough for you to take your life. Tell […]
Do You Know Who I Am?
Do You Know Who I Am? At a tea for officers and their wives, the commanding general of a base delivered a seemingly endless oration. A young lieutenant grumbled to the woman sitting beside him, “What a pompous and unbearable old windbag that slob is!” The woman turned to him, her face red with rage. […]
Dying Testimony of the Believer – Charles Spurgeon
Dying Testimony of the Believer – Charles Spurgeon TRAVERSE the azure way. Plume your wings for the last solemn flight. Let faith like a courier march before to track the way. Every semblance of affectation upon dying beds is shocking. I have never been able to admire the oft-quoted death-bed of Addison. “Come,” said he, […]
Dying, Test of – Charles Spurgeon
Dying, Test of – Charles Spurgeon GOD grant that we may stand the test of dying. But there is a still more terrible test than dying, for some sleep quietly through death, but, oh, the judgment! I see two ponderous scales, huge as hemispheres of this great globe, and there I see the weights—the standard […]
Dying Song – Charles Spurgeon
Dying Song – Charles Spurgeon LET us pour forth a canticle of deep, mysterious melody of bliss when our dying hour is near at hand. Courage, brother! The waters are chilly; but fear will not by any means diminish the terrors of the river. Courage, brother! Death is solemn work; but playing the coward will […]
Dying Saints, Joy of – Charles Spurgeon
Dying Saints, Joy of – Charles Spurgeon I HAVE heard expressions from some dying men and women, that I never met with in the best written book. They have seemed to me as if they knew more about my Master than I had ever learned, or than the old divines, or the best of writers […]
Dying Daily, Blessings of – Charles Spurgeon
Dying Daily, Blessings of – Charles Spurgeon I DO not know how wide the benefits of dying daily may be, but they seem to me to be commensurate with the whole period of human existence. You young people, you would not be likely to plunge into youthful gaieties to your own damage, if you felt […]
Dwarfish Christians – Charles Spurgeon
Dwarfish Christians – Charles Spurgeon WE have fallen upon a race of dwarfs, and are content, to a great extent, to have it so. There was once in London a club of small men, whose qualification for membership lay in their not exceeding five feet in height; these dwarfs held, or pretended to hold, the […]
Duty to be Performed at all Costs – Charles Spurgeon
Duty to be Performed at all Costs – Charles Spurgeon A CHRISTIAN man is sometimes bound by duty to perform an action which, to all appearance, will destroy his future usefulness. I have often heard men urge, as a plea for remaining in a corrupt church, that they have obtained an influence in its midst, […]
Duty, Preparation for – Charles Spurgeon
Duty, Preparation for – Charles Spurgeon EARNESTNESS says: “I shall undertake some fresh duty this afternoon.” Stop, dear brother, just a minute. If you want to praise God, would not it be as well first to begin with yourself? The musician said: “I will praise God better;” but the pipes of his instrument were foul; […]
Drunkenness Inexcusable – Charles Spurgeon
Drunkenness Inexcusable – Charles Spurgeon WE sometimes talk of a man being “as drunk as a beast,” but whoever heard of a beast being drunk? Why, it is more beastly than anything a beast ever does. I do not believe that the devil himself is ever guilty of anything like that. I never heard even […]
Dreams, Deceitfulness of – Charles Spurgeon
Dreams, Deceitfulness of – Charles Spurgeon MANY visions have led to the most disastrous results. When Napoleon had a vision of a universal monarchy over which he should preside, with the French eagle for his ensign, he drenched the lands in blood. Many visions have been wretchedly delusive. Men have dreamed of finding the fairy […]
Doctrine of the Gospel, Universal Suitability of the – Charles Spurgeon
Doctrine of the Gospel, Universal Suitability of the – Charles Spurgeon THE rabbis say that when the young Israelites grew older their clothes grew as they grew. I do not know how that was, but I do know that let us grow in mental stature as we may, the doctrines of the gospel still are […]
Doctrine, False—Contagion of – Charles Spurgeon
Doctrine, False—Contagion of – Charles Spurgeon SIN is like the bale of goods which came from the east to this city in the olden time, which brought the pest in it. Probably it was but a small bale, but yet it contained in it the deaths of hundreds of the inhabitants of London. In those […]
Dissatisfaction with Self – Charles Spurgeon
Dissatisfaction with Self – Charles Spurgeon I SUPPOSE that the further we proceed in the way to Heaven the more we shall be dissatisfied with ourselves, because our daily trials and troubles have the effect of bursting many of those bubbles in which we once put our confidence. All the wooden centers must be taken […]
Disposition, Cheerful – Charles Spurgeon
Disposition, Cheerful – Charles Spurgeon TO a poor soul troubled with indigestion a wet morning is horrible, the roads are rivers of malicious mud, the heartless rain-drops come pattering down most cruelly, every one of them bitterly chilling your marrow and spitefully shivering your bones, while the grim clouds are piled one upon the other […]
Difficulties solved in Eternity – Charles Spurgeon
Difficulties solved in Eternity – Charles Spurgeon OUR disputes are often childish. We might as well leave some questions in abeyance for a little while. Two persons in the dark have differed about a color, and they are wrangling about it. If we brought candles in and held them to the color, the candles would […]
Difficulties, God’s Opportunities – Charles Spurgeon
Difficulties, God’s Opportunities – Charles Spurgeon BELOVED, if you can conceive of an age that is worse than another, so much the more is it a fit platform for the heavenly energy; the more difficulty, the more room for omnipotence to show itself; there is elbow-room for the great God when there is some great […]
Dew of the Spirit – Charles Spurgeon
Dew of the Spirit – Charles Spurgeon THE Oriental knew the value of dew. When he saw the green pastures turn brown and at last dry up, until they were nothing but dust and powder, how he sought for the shower and the dew; and when it came, how thankful was he! When that dew […]
Devil, God’s Purposes fulfilled by the – Charles Spurgeon
Devil, God’s Purposes fulfilled by the – Charles Spurgeon PERHAPS, of all the powers which effect the divine purposes in the world, none does more than the devil himself. He is but a scullion in the Eternal’s kitchen; he unwillingly performs much work to which the Lord would not put his children, work which is […]
Definition of a Friend
Definition of a Friend A British publication once offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. Among the thousands of answers received were the following:“One who multiplies joys, divides grief, and whose honesty is inviolable.”“One who understands our silence.”“A volume of sympathy bound in cloth.”“A watch that beats true for all time and […]
Development, The Theory of—A Lie – Charles Spurgeon
Development, The Theory of—A Lie – Charles Spurgeon I HAVE heard lately, to my deep sorrow, certain preachers speaking of conversions as being developments. Is it so, then, that conversion is but the development of hidden graces within the human soul? It is not so: the theory is a lie from top to bottom. There […]
Despondency v. Cheerfulness – Charles Spurgeon
Despondency v. Cheerfulness – Charles Spurgeon DESPONDENCY whispers, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?” But cheerfulness points to the risen Savior, and the stone already moved. Despondency scarcely entertains as possible the plan which cheerfulness readily works out. Despondency gives up the work at the very first discouragement; […]
Departed, The—Comfort about – Charles Spurgeon
Departed, The—Comfort about – Charles Spurgeon WE shall enter into no questions now about whether Heaven is a place, and where it is, or whether it be a state merely: it is enough for us that where Jesus is there his people are—not some of them on lower seats, or sitting outside, or in lower […]
Denominations, Use of – Charles Spurgeon
Denominations, Use of – Charles Spurgeon SUPPOSE that all the livery companies in London should give up their distinctive names, so that there should be no Goldsmiths’ Company, nor Cloth Workers, nor Merchant Tailors, nor Fishmongers, but that all should be called citizens, it would be a wonderful piece of policy, and would singularly unite […]
Deep Experience of Christ, Value of – Charles Spurgeon
Deep Experience of Christ, Value of – Charles Spurgeon O YOU who in these regions profess to abide in the Lord, may you dwell deep in Christ. When you get upon the rock of Christ Jesus you are safe, but when you get into the rock then you are happy. A man on the rock […]
Decision for Christ, Call to – Charles Spurgeon
Decision for Christ, Call to – Charles Spurgeon I DO not read that that poor man who was sent into the fields to feed swine ever gave his master any notice when he left him. His master sent him into the fields to feed swine, and he would gladly have filled his belly with the […]
Debtors to God – Charles Spurgeon
Debtors to God – Charles Spurgeon SOME of us had once a comfortable competence laid by in the bank of Self-righteousness, and we meant to draw it out when we came to die, and thought we should even have a little spending money for our old age out of the interest which was paid us […]
Death of Believers, Holy Spirit’s work in – Charles Spurgeon
Death of Believers, Holy Spirit’s work in – Charles Spurgeon WE are to look upon the presence of the Holy Spirit in the witness of dying men, as in some sense the continuance of the Holy Spirit’s instructive authorship. He has finished yonder book written with paper and ink, but he is writing fresh stanzas […]
Deaths, Early – Charles Spurgeon
Deaths, Early – Charles Spurgeon “WHOM the gods love die young,” said the heathen, and doubtless it is no small privilege to be so soon admitted into glory. Only shown on earth, and then snatched away to Heaven, too precious to be left below. Precious child, how dear were you to the good God who […]
Death Struggle, sometimes the most Terrible – Charles Spurgeon
Death Struggle, sometimes the most Terrible – Charles Spurgeon IT has been the custom of some great commanders to keep a body of picked men in reserve to make the final assault. Just when battalion after battalion has been swept away, and the main army reels; just when the victory is almost in the enemy’s […]
Desire of a Humanist
Desire of a Humanist Not long before she died Marghanita Laski, a well-known secular humanist and novelist, told an interviewer: “What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Death-bed of the Righteous and Sinner Compared – Charles Spurgeon
Death-bed of the Righteous and Sinner Compared – Charles Spurgeon AROUND the sinner’s death-bed the tempest thickens, and he hears the rumblings of the eternal storm: his soul is driven away, either amid the thunderings of curses loud and deep, or else in the dread calm which evermore forebodes the hurricane. “Depart, you cursed,” is […]
Death, Uncertainty of—An Incentive to Service – Charles Spurgeon
Death, Uncertainty of—An Incentive to Service – Charles Spurgeon YOU came over Blackfriars Bridge tonight: you may drop down dead on it as you go back! You have come from your house tonight, and you have left at home a dear friend to whom you wish to speak about his soul. Do it tonight, for […]
Death to be Rejoiced in – Charles Spurgeon
Death to be Rejoiced in – Charles Spurgeon I DO not know why we always sing dirges at the funerals of the saints, and drape ourselves in black. I would desire, if I might have my way, to be drawn to my grave by white horses, or to be carried on the shoulders of men […]
Death the Way to Life – Charles Spurgeon
Death the Way to Life – Charles Spurgeon WE notice frequently over cemetery gates, as an emblematic device, a torch turned over, ready to be quenched. Ah, my brethren, it is not so, the torch of our life burns the better, and blazes the brighter for the change of death. The breaking of the pitcher […]
Death, the Revealer of Religion – Charles Spurgeon
Death, the Revealer of Religion – Charles Spurgeon DEATH, I hope, beloved, will be to many of you the season of your greatest joy; you will climb to Pisgah’s top with weary footsteps; but when once there, the vision of the landscape will make amends for all the toil. The brooks, and hills, and vales, […]
Death, the Enemy of Humanity – Charles Spurgeon
Death, the Enemy of Humanity – Charles Spurgeon O YOU mourners! your somber garments tell me that your family circle has been broken into, time after time, by this ruthless destroyer. The widow has lost her comfort and her stay; the children have been left desolate and fatherless. O death! you are the cruel enemy […]
Death, the Consummation of our Warfare – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Sweetness of a Promise in – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Revolting Character of – Charles Spurgeon
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Death revealing Secrets – Charles Spurgeon
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Death refining the Body – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Readiness for – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Preparation for—Our Wisdom – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Night of – Charles Spurgeon
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Death Inevitable to all – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Forgetfulness of – Charles Spurgeon
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Death, Certainty of—To all – Charles Spurgeon
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Daily Troubles taken to God – Charles Spurgeon
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Daily Grace, Need of – Charles Spurgeon
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Daily Cares brought to Christ – Charles Spurgeon
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Dr. George Sweeting Tells A Story About The ..-George Mueller
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Death Is Not a Respecter of Persons
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Death Accepts No Substitutes
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Divided We Fall – Dwight Lyman Moody
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