Products Description
From the
Pulpit Legends Collection comes the
Bible Sermon Series, a carefully selected set of sermon classics by some of the most distinguished preachers in the English-speaking world.
In a day when pulpitoratory is all too often stale and trite, it is the hope of the publisher that this series will stimulate a newed interest in the great preachers of the past and provide sound models of clarity and dept for today's ministers. Moreover, the Bible Sermon Series offers all Christians - laymen and clergy alike - the finest in Bible Exposition for their personal edification.
Hailed as the nineteenth century's greatest preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) dedicated over half his life to preaching. Spurgeon was born in Kelvington, Essex, England to John C. and Eliza Jarvis Spurgeon. At the age of sixteen, after being inspired in his early childhood by his grandfather's copy of Pilgrim's Progress to seek salvation from his "guilt and sense of sin," he was converted at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Colchester. Two years later he became pastor of a Baptist congregation in Waterbeach.
In 1854 Spurgeon took the helm of London's New Park Street Church. There, through his convincing and captivating oratory style, his influence grew, and this once sparesey attended church overflowed. As a result of the crowds, the famous 6,000 seat Metropolitan Tabernacle was built, where Spurgeon preached until his death at age fifty seven.
As a Baptist minister, Spurgeon continually accentuated the great themes of the Reformation in his sermons, particulary that of the sovereignty of God. His practical applications of biblical truths along with his humorous, powerful, and inspirational use of rhetoric appealed to the housands in his congregation. He intrigued a large reading audience as well since he began publishing his weekly sermons in 1855.
Spurgeon was prolific in his forty years of ministry with over 2,200 sermons published before his death and another 1,600 published posthumously. Other than numerous volumes of sermons, Spurgeons' noted works include The Saint and His Saviour and Commenting on Commentaries. Additionally, he was responsible for the planting of forty-eight churches in the London area, as well as for the founding of a pastor's college and an orphanage.
Though he was lauded as the "prince of preachers" and as an amazing orator, Spurgeion's main concern was for lost souls. "I would rather be the means of saving a soul from death," he remarked, "than be the greatest orator on earth."
