Again this morning I feel like saying, 'It is impossible to flatter Jesus.' That's a quote from Charles Spurgeon, and I like it very much. In other words, nothing good you could say about Christ would be too much. It's about His excellence, His beauty, His glory,
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faith, Top storiesI like reading dead preachers, preachers from another era. They have much to teach us about our own times, about the fundamentally unchanged nature of man. They help us understand that there is nothing new under the sun, and therefore to take the drama out of things. Let me explain. Paul in his letter to the community
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abba house, leadershipThen, for Spurgeon, another source of joy is knowing that we have been reconciled with this God and, even more so, that we are now part of His family. There are relationships that fill and change life. There are relationships that make us privileged.
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faith, generalOn the subject of joy, I consulted one of our mentors, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. There was nothing in my copy of the small ten-volume collection 'Spurgeon's Sermons' published by Hendrickson, but a tiny book, 'The Joy of the Lord', yielded a few gems that we will examine in
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