PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Look, this weekend, we plead with you, upon us as a church, and give us greater prosperity. Add to us daily. Knit and unite us together in love. Pardon church sins. Have mercy upon us that we do not more for you. Accept what we are enabled to do. Qualify each one of us to be vessels fit for the Master’s use; then use each one of us according to the measure of our capacity.
Will you be pleased to bless the various works carried on by the church; may they all prosper. Let every activity be visited with the dew of heaven, may they have an abundant shower from the Lord; and may all of our efforts bring forth a great harvest for God.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
Soul Saving: Our One Business
“To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.” (2 Corinthians 9:22)
At this time I shall have to speak to you upon Paul’s great object in life; he tells us it was to “save some”; we will then look into Paul’s heart and show’ you a few of the great reasons which made him think it so important that some at least should be saved; then, thirdly, we will indicate certain of the means which the apostle used to that end; and all with this view, that you, my dear hearers, may seek to “save some”; that you may seek this because of potent reasons which you cannot withstand, and that you may seek it with wise methods such as shall in the end succeed.
Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.
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The Bible warned us about this
It feels all too common. I open Twitter and find news I wish wasn’t true. I hope it’s not true. But as I read I realize, tragically, it is all too true. A well-known Christian leader has fallen. He wasn’t what he seemed to be. His sins, as the Bible promises, have found him out….
Putting our faith in someone other than Jesus will inevitably lead to disappointment. Yet we do it anyway. That’s why it hurts so bad when our heroes fall.
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