Shepherding with Spurgeon

Weekly Newsletter for Pastors from SpurgeonBooks

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PASTORS (BY SPURGEON)

Could God not, if he pleased, convert men without our preaching? But he will not do it; he would rather that they should be brought in by our imperfect preaching and therefore he washes our preaching—he washes our feet. Could he not save sinners without you, my brother? And yet he sets you longing after souls, and opens your mouth to speak a good word to them; and he accepts what you do. But oh, what condescension is there, what tenderness, what divine stooping from his loftiness, that he should cleanse your works! It is more than he ever did for angels. When an angel had defiled his service, he banished him from heaven; but with all the imperfection of our service, we expect that in Christ we shall be welcomed into heaven with the words “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe the resurrection of Christ.

The doctrine of the resurrection is full of joy for the mourning. It clothes the grave with flowers and wreathes the tomb with unfading greens. The emptytomb shines with a light brighter than the sun, and death grows fair, as we say, in full assurance of faith, 'I know that my brother shall rise again.'

ONE MORE REMINDER: PREACH JESUS THIS WEEKEND

“We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.” — Charles Spurgeon