PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Dear Father, save this congregation. Some may have gone through great lengths to come to this place, yet they remain unsaved. We cannot comprehend why they desire to hear the Word but do not receive it. However, perhaps today you have great plans of love for them. May this be the day when they come to know that you have loved them with an everlasting love. Until now, they have been indifferent and careless. They may have even resisted your Spirit and rejected Christ, provoking him. But now, Lord, where sin has abounded, let grace abound even more. May this be a new beginning for those who will see Christ today, accept him, delight in him, receive perfect pardon through him, and become new creations in him, all to the praise and glory of your grace.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
The Sin of Unbelief
Is it not a sin for a creature to doubt the word of its Maker? Is it not a crime and an insult to the Divinity, for me, an atom, a particle of dust, to dare to deny his words? Is it not the very summit of arrogance and extremity of pride for a son of Adam to say, even in his heart, “God I doubt thy grace; God I doubt thy love; God I doubt thy power?”
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Theology in the Everyday: The Ordinary Means of Grace
What are the ordinary means of grace? They are the outward practices God has prescribed by which He promises His nourishing presence to His people when they participate by faith. Put more simply, the ordinary means of grace are God’s prescribed proclamations of the Gospel, and they include Word (preaching, teaching, and evangelism), water (baptism), and table (the Lord’s Supper).
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