PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Dear Savior, you know the particular trials and conditions of all your people gathering with our church this weekend; and, we do pray, now deal with each child of yours according to his special need. Great Physician, walk this hospital. Come and look on each special case; and may there be a masterpiece of your heavenly surgery in the case of each one of us.
Many of us need comfort; our heart is cast down within us. There are many of your saints, in whose soul deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls. Command your loving-kindness this weekend, and let your song be with us at this moment.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
The Overflowing Cup
“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.” (Psalm 23:5)
any even fail to be filled because taken to the wrong source. Such are the cups which are held beneath the drippings of the world’s leaky cistern. Men try to find full satisfaction in wealth, but they never do. There is a craving of the soul which can never be satisfied, except by its Creator. In God only is the fulness of the heart, which he has made for himself.
Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.
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Don Whitney on the Gospel in Spiritual Disciplines
FTC.co asks Dr. Don Whitney, Professor of Biblical Spirituality at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, “How is the gospel connected to the daily effort in the spiritual disciplines?”
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