Shepherding with Spurgeon

Weekly Newsletter for Pastors from SpurgeonBooks

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ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PASTORS (BY SPURGEON)

The surest way to maintain variety is to keep to the mind of the Holy Spirit in the particular passage under consideration. No two texts are exactly similar; something in the connection or drift of the passage gives to each apparently identical text a shade of difference. Keep to the Spirit’s track and you will never repeat yourself or be short of matter: his paths drop fatness. A sermon, moreover, comes with far greater power to the consciences of the hearers when it is plainly the very word of God—not a lecture about the Scripture, but Scripture itself opened up and enforced. It is due to the majesty of inspiration that when you profess to be preaching from a verse you do not thrust it out of sight to make room for your own thinkings.

SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe grace.

Suppose I was in a burning building, and a man brought to the house a fire escape of a very unusual shape, but one that he assured me had been the means of saving thousands of lives. Do you think that I should object to trust myself to it because it was such a peculiar shape? Of course, I should not be so foolish.

Then why are sinners so foolish as to object to the shape of the fire escape that God has designed to rescue them from everlasting burnings? What could be better than the divine plan of substitution?

RESOURCE FOR PASTORS

A book about sex to add to your counseling tool belt.

My book for married Christians, Sex and Self-Forgetfulness, has been out for two months and I’m so thankful to hear from pastors about how useful this resource has been.

One pastor put it this way in a Goodreads review: “I often feel like if I give books out about sensitive topics, I need to give many caveats and I don’t feel that way at all about Hanna’s book which is a huge win!… What is most impressive to me about this book is how Hanna does not trade accessibility for depth. They co-exist in this book!”

I hope you’ll order a copy of the book today. I can’t wait to hear about how God uses it in your ministry.

Available on Amazon, Christianbook, WTS Books, or New Growth Press.

ONE MORE REMINDER: PREACH JESUS THIS WEEKEND

“The sermon which does not lead to Christ will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.” — Charles Spurgeon