Charles Spurgeon

The best sermon is that which is fullest of Christ. A Welsh minister, when preaching at the chapel of my dear brother Jonathan George, was saying that Christ was the sum and substance of the gospel, and he broke out into the following story:

A minister's workshop is, of course, his study—a room equipped with books, his intellectual tools. Every minister needs a den, a retreat, a room free from ordinary intrusion, where he can commune with God through prayer and the study of the…

The following sermon by the prince of Victorian preachers has been continuously in print since 1894. It was brought to our attention, however, by Pastor M. A. Relief, a reader in South Africa, who found it in a secondhand book shop as…

"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isa. 45:22).

Six years ago today I was "in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity," but had…