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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

With much shame, we acknowledge our transgressions and sins. There are some that never felt the burden of sin at all. Lord, lay it on them; press them with it. Almighty God, vex their souls; let them find no rest till they find rest in you. May they never be content to live and die in sin, but of your infinite mercy come to them, and make them sorry for their sin.

As for your people we are grieved to think that we do not live better than we do. Blessed be your name for every fruit of holiness, for every work of faith, but oh, we ask for more. You have changed the tree; it is no longer a bramble; it can bring forth figs, but now we want to bring forth more of these sweet fruits.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and his Anointed One…” (Psalm 2:2)

In determined malice they arrayed themselves in opposition against God. It was not temporary rage, but deep-seated hate, for they set themselves resolutely to withstand the Prince of Peace.

They go about their warfare craftily, not with foolish haste, but deliberately. They use all the skill which art can give. Like Pharaoh, they cry, “Let us deal wisely with them.” O that men were half as careful in God’s service to serve him wisely, as his enemies are to attack his kingdom craftily. Sinners have their wits about them, and yet saints are dull.

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Men, pay attention to your wife

A lot of men have no idea what challenges, burdens, and worries their wives experience every day. They aren’t serving their wives well, because they have no idea what’s going on in their wives’ lives beyond a surface level.

That’s why I created The God Centered Husband One-Year Journal, a simple, hands-on resource to help men pursue God and their wives.

The core of the journal is 52 weekly page templates to take inventory of your marriage each week. These prompts will encourage you to consider your wife, her burdens, and how you can serve her.

If you want to grow as a husband in the new year, I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

Buy The God Centered Husband One-Year Journal on Amazon (Paperback edition)

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We wish we knew how to do something for you. We pray that we may be helped to do so before we die; yes, that every flying hour may confess that we have brought your gospel some renown; that we may so live as to extend the Redeemer’s kingdom at least in some little measure; that ours may not be a fruitless, wasted life; that no faculty of ours may lay by and rust; but to the utmost of our capacity may we be helped of the Divine Spirit to spend our whole life in real adoration.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” (Psalm 2:1)

We see the heathen raging, roaring like the sea, tossed to and fro with restless waves, as the ocean in a storm; and then we mark the people in their hearts imagining a vain thing against God. Where there is much rage there is generally some folly, and in this case there is an excess of it. Note, that the commotion is not caused by the people only, but their leaders foment the rebellion.

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The New Testament is Amazing — So Dive in Deep*

On every page of the New Testament, the glory of Jesus is revealed to us with crystal clarity. We need to discipline ourselves to DIVE deep into the NT — every part of it — to see and savor Jesus more.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been REALLY encouraged by a new (FREE) resource from my friends at Midwestern Seminary.

They are offering their New Testament II course (taught by Patrick Schreiner) for FREE.

You can start this class at any time, take it at your own pace, and cherish Jesus in every minute of it.

The lecture videos are so helpful for deepening your understanding of God’s Word. Taking this class is definitely an investment of time — but it is SO worth it.

You will walk away more confident in the truth of God’s Word, and with more skill to accurately unfold and apply it.

Click here to get started with this FREE seminary-level course.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh, the joy of knowing that we are yours forever, yours in the trials of life, and yours in the last dread trial of deaths and then yours in resurrection, yours throughout eternity. We do therefore worship you, O God, not as a constraining nor under terror or pressure, but cheerfully and gladly, ascribing unto you praise, and power, and dominion, and glory, and honor, world without end.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“… but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.” (1 Peter 1:25)

Now, the gospel is of use to us because it is not of human origin. If it were of the flesh, all it could do for us would not land us beyond the flesh. But the gospel of Jesus Christ is superhuman, divine, and spiritual. In its conception it was of God. Its great gift, even the Savior, is a divine gift, and all its teachings are full of deity. If you believe a gospel that you have thought out for yourself, or a philosophical gospel that comes from the brain of man, it is of the flesh, and will wither, and you will die and be lost through trusting in it. The only word that can bless you and be a seed in your soul must be the living and incorruptible word of the eternal Spirit.

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Christmas Gift Idea for Christian Men

I’m really hoping that my new resource, The God Centered Husband One-Year Journal will help a lot of Christian men grow as husbands in 2024.

This hands-on resource gives men a blank page to fill out every week to help them consider what burdens their wife will have this week and how they can help her.

It also has a lot of bonus features, like 52 conversation starters for couples, a one-year Bible reading plan, weekly devotionals to remind you of Jesus’ love for imperfect husbands.

I hope you’ll grab one for yourself (your wife will thank you later!)

And if you aren’t a husband, I hope you’ll buy copies for all of the married Christian men on your shopping list.

I think this resource will really make a difference in a lot of marriages, so I hope you’ll grab a copy today!

Buy The God Centered Husband One-Year Journal on Amazon (Paperback edition)

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PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)

O blessed God, we must be helped of your Spirit or we cannot worship you rightly. Behold the holy angels adore you and the hosts redeemed by blood bring everlasting hallelujahs to your feet. What are we, the creatures of a day, polluted with sin, that we should think that we can praise you? And yet the music of praise were not complete if your children did not join in it, even those of them who are still in this world below. Help us, then; enable us to tune our harps and to fetch forth music from our spirit.

Amen.

GET A FREE SEMINARY CLASS

Thanks to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College for sponsoring the Weekend Edition. This month, Midwestern is giving away their New Testament II class (covering Paul’s Letters) for FREE.

This class is taught by Patrick Schreiner and will help you ready, study, and apply Paul’s Epistles with confidence.

Get this class for free right here.

WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)

Sin and Grace

I trust that any here present, who have gone far in sin, may be saved by the immeasurable grace of God ere they leave this building, and that, throughout the whole of their future lives, they may love Jesus Christ better, and serve him more than others who have not sinned as deeply as they have.

Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.

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The Trajectory of Apostasy

On this episode of the FTC Podcast, Jared Wilson and Ross Ferguson discuss the peculiar tragedy of those who evidently “fall away.” Are there warning signs before apostasy? What should we look out for and how can we address the red flags in biblical and gracious ways?

Listen to this podcast on For the Church.

PREPARE FOR MINISTRY AT MIDWESTERN

What Jesus purchased is precious. We’ve made it our purpose. Midwestern Seminary exists for the Church, and we serve the church by biblically educating God-called men and women to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ. If you’re called to serve the church, train with us, for the Church.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

In the recollection of all that you have done for us your people, we are filled with amazement as well as with gratitude, that you should have loved us before the foundation of the world, that sovereign love should have pitched upon us poor unworthy ones, that you should so love us as to redeem us with the blood of Jesus and give the only Begotten to die for unworthy creatures like us, that you should love us notwithstanding our sins and transgressions, that you should love us despite the hardness of our hearts and the rebellion of our nature.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“because you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.” (1 Peter 1:23)

We know this much of our natural birth: that in birth there is a life created. That infant is beginning his being—another creature has lifted up its feeble cry to heaven, and another mortal has come to tread this theater of action: to breathe, to live, to die. And so in the new birth there is an absolute creation. We are made new creatures in Christ Jesus; there is another spirit born to pray, to believe in Christ, to love him here, and to rejoice in him hereafter. As no one doubts that birth is the manifestation of a creation, so let no one doubt that regeneration is the manifestation of a creation of God, as divine, as much beyond the power of man, as the creation of the human mind itself.

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Celebrate Christmas with Spurgeon’s best sermons.

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, which means that after today, no one will be able to judge you for listening to Christmas music and reading Christmas books. I want to recommend one resource to you —Spurgeon on Christmas. 

This book is a compilation of 14 classic Spurgeon sermons on Christmas, the incarnation, and the birth of our Lord. Read this book before Christmas to remember (and celebrate) the reason for the season!

Reading Spurgeon’s classic Christmas and Christmas Eve sermons has become one of my favorite family Christmas traditions. These sermons are so rich and help us all remember the wonderful gift of God’s Son that came down at Christmas.

Buy Spurgeon on Christmas today on Amazon. (Paperback or Kindle editions)

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, cure any of your chosen of self-righteousness; deliver them from any hope in their own abilities, but keep them low. Bring them out of any hope of salvation by their own prayers or their own repentance. Bring them to cast themselves upon your grace to be saved by trusting in Christ emancipate them from all observance of days, weeks, months, years, and things of human institution, and bring them into the glorious liberty of the children of God that your law may become their delight, may you yourself become their strength, their all, your Son become their joy and their crown. We do pray this with all our hearts.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,” (1 Peter 1:22)

See how this love of the brothers is linked to regeneration. The first time we are born, we are born in sin, and that tends to hate. But when we are born again, born unto God, our life tends to love. Peter wisely fetches his argument, not from the law, nor from nature, nor from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature that God has implanted in his people. Love each other with a pure heart fervently, for you have been born again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible.

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Understanding the New Testament More than Ever*

If you want to be spiritually-fed with rich food, read the Apostle Paul. His letters in the New Testament are so simple that anyone can benefit, but they are also so rich that we will never fully plunge the depths of them.

No matter how familiar the passage is to me, whenever I sit down with a passage from Paul’s letters, there are always new glories to refresh and encourage me.

What a gift!

We need help diving deeper and deeper into Paul’s writings. We need guides to help us better understand how each letter fits together and why it’s so important. We need teachers who will help us apply God’s Word to our lives.

One really great resource for all of that is the New Testament 2 course from Midwestern Seminary, which is available FOR FREE right now!!

This class (taught by Patrick Schreiner) covers all of Paul’s Letters. As you go through these videos (at your own pace), you’ll discover new glories in these precious books.

And did I mention it’s free right now!?

I’m so thankful to Midwestern for providing this resource — I KNOW it will bring you more joy and knowledge of God and his Word as you dive in.

Click here to get started with this FREE seminary-level course.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, deliver any of your children from quarreling with you. Help us to be always at one with our God. “It is the Lord; let him do what seems good,” and blessed be his name forever and ever.

God bless our country and all lands where your name is known and reverenced, and heathen lands where it is unknown. God bless the outposts, the first heralds of mercy, and everywhere may the Lord’s kingdom come and his name be glorified. Glory be unto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” (1 Peter 1:21)

What a well of joy this always was to Peter: that God had raised his Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead, and this is our joy today. This is one of the facts that are proved beyond all question: Jesus Christ, who died upon the cross, and was buried in Joseph’s tomb, did actually rise again. This is the cornerstone of the Christian faith; one of the great facts upon which we found our confidence as to salvation by Jesus Christ.

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Cherishing Jesus on Every Page of the New Testament*

In the New Testament, the hero who was hidden and obscured in the Old Testament is now in the spotlight for all to see, believe, and enjoy forever. The whole Bible tells one story. The New and Old are not merely in agreement with one another — they are one unified work. You cannot have one without the other.

We need to study the whole Bible — Old and New Testament — with depth and precision.

We need to know how to read, understand, and apply all of Scripture.

We need to grow our knowledge of the background and contents of every book.

And my friends at Midwestern Seminary have put together a new resource that will help you do ALL of that (and more).

They are giving away (FREE!) they’re entire New Testament 2 class, which covers all of Paul’s Letters.

This class is so valuable. The lectures by Patrick Schreiner are incredibly helpful for understanding Scripture.

Time spent studying God’s Word is never wasted, and I know that this free course will bear fruit in your life, ministry, and personal study for YEARS to come.

Click here to get started with this FREE seminary-level course.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Our first prayer is for others who as yet are in bondage. We thank you, Lord, that you have given them the spirit of bondage and made them to fear. We are glad that they should be brought to feel the evil of sin, to feel the perfection of your law, to know something of the fiery nature of your justice, and so to be shut up unto salvation by grace through faith. But, Lord, let them not tarry long under the teacher (the law), but may the schoolmaster with his rod bring them to Christ.

Lord, cure any of your chosen of self-righteousness; deliver them from any hope in their own abilities, but keep them low. Bring them out of any hope of salvation by their own prayers or their own repentance.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:20)

The love of Jesus to us is no novelty; he was ordained to redeem us before worlds began. Let none of the trifles of earth charm us with their new pretensions. It was truly practical love that brought him to earth to be our suffering substitute. Let our love be practical too; not in word only, but in deed and in truth.

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Trust the God who is able to keep you until the end

Today we prayed that God would preserve us, even as we suffer. As we pray for God to strengthen our faith, we can also fill our minds with his Word as a means to boost our faith.

A great book on growing your faith in God is Trusting God by Jerry Bridges. This book focuses on God’s sovereignty, his good control over all things, and shows that we really can trust God in any circumstance. This book is full of reasons to trust God and applies those reasons to the trials in our lives that make it particularly hard to trust God.

This book will strengthen your faith and confidence in our great God — I hope you’ll grab a copy today.

Buy Trusting God:

• Amazon (Paperback, Kindle, or audiobook edition)
• ChristianBook.com (Paperback or ebook edition)

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PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)

Now, Lord, we ask you to help all in this house to look to Jesus Christ alone. Perhaps some backsliders here are questioning whether they ever did believe in Jesus. May they leave that question alone and believe in him now. May they be content to let the past go by the wall, and once for all come, if they never did come, and embrace the savior whom you, great God, have set forth as all-sufficient to save.

Let Peter weep bitterly, but let him come to his master again. Oh, let the most wandering, cry to you; and may they look to your holy temple; and as they look, let the eternal life stream into them again, by the energy of the eternal Spirit; and may they feel that whatever may have been the past, they are restored like prodigal children to a feast of love, restored forever to the Father’s house.

Amen.

GET A FREE SEMINARY CLASS

Thanks to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College for sponsoring the Weekend Edition. This month, Midwestern is giving away their New Testament II class (covering Paul’s Letters) for FREE.

This class is taught by Patrick Schreiner and will help you ready, study, and apply Paul’s Epistles with confidence.

Get this class for free right here.

WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)

High Doctrine and Broad Doctrine

This is a statement without limitation of any kind: it has been thought to leave the free grace of God open to the free will of man, so that whosoever pleases may come and may be sure that he will not be refused. We have no permission to pare down either sentence, nor is there the slightest need to do so. The first sentence appears to me to say that God has chosen a people, and has given these people to Christ, and these people must and shall come to Christ, and so shall be saved. The second truth declares that every man who comes to Christ shall be saved, since he shall not be cast out, and that implies that he shall be received and accepted. These are two great truths; let us carry them both with us, and they will balance each other.

Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.

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What is the Doctrine of Adoption?

The Theology in the Everyday series seeks to introduce and explain theological concepts in 500 words or less, with a 200-word section helping explain the doctrine to kids.

Read the full article on For the Church

PREPARE FOR MINISTRY AT MIDWESTERN

What Jesus purchased is precious. We’ve made it our purpose. Midwestern Seminary exists for the Church, and we serve the church by biblically educating God-called men and women to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ. If you’re called to serve the church, train with us, for the Church.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

By your grace, we are heirs according to promise and heirs of the promise, and we dwell at home in the Father’s house, and our soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and our mouth shall praise you with joyful lips.

O God, we would not change places with angels, much less with kings of the earth. To truly be your sons and daughters—the thought of it brings to our soul a present heaven, and the fruition of it shall be our heaven, to dwell forever in the house of the Lord, and go no more out, but to be his sons and his heirs forever and ever.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.” (1 Peter 1:19)

Place innocence, and merit, and dignity, and position, and godhead itself, in the scale, and then conceive what must be the inestimable value of the blood that Jesus Christ poured forth. Angels must have seen that matchless blood-shedding with wonder and amazement, and even God himself saw what never before was seen in creation or in providence: he saw himself more gloriously displayed than in the whole universe besides.

There is no other plan by which sinners can be made at one with God except by Jesus’ precious blood. I may make sacrifices; I may mortify my body; I may be baptized; I may receive sacraments; I may pray until my knees grow hard with kneeling; I may read devout words until I know them by heart; I may celebrate masses; I may worship in one language or in fifty languages. But I can never be at one with God except by blood, and that blood, “the precious blood of Christ.”

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Gift Idea for Your Pastor’s Wife

As you begin planning your Christmas gifts, I hope you won’t forget to recognize the unique contribution that our pastors’ wives make.

Being a pastor’s wife is a uniquely challenging work. I’m so thankful for the ways my wife bears my burdens and equips me to serve our church more faithfully.

If you want to bless and encourage the wives of your pastors this Christmas, consider grabbing copies of a new book, Partners in the Gospel: 50 Meditations for Pastors’ and Elders’ Wives by Megan Hill. This book is a collection of 50 short devotionals that will leave readers feeling refreshed and encouraged for the uniquely challenging (and rewarding) work ahead of them.

I hope you’ll consider grabbing a few copies for your pastors’ wives.

Buy Partners in the Gospel:

• Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook editions)
• ChristianBook.com (Hardcover edition)