PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Lord visit our church. We have heard your message to the church at Ephesus (Revelation 2:1–7); it is a message to us also. Oh, do not let any of us lose our first love. Let not our church grow cold and dead. We are not, we fear, what once we were. Lord revive us! All our help must come from you. Give back to the church its love, its confidence, its holy daring, its consecration, its liberality, its holiness. Give back all it ever had and give it much more. Take every member and wash his feet, sweet Lord, most tenderly, and set us with clean feet in a clean road, with a clean heart to guide them, and bless us as you are known to do in a divine fashion.
Bless us, our Father, and let all the churches of Jesus Christ partake of like care and tenderness. Walking among the golden lamp stands trim every lamp and make every light, even though it burns but feebly now, to shine out gloriously through your care.
Amen.
ENTER TO WIN $10K FOR YOUR PASTOR
Thanks to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College for sponsoring the Weekend Edition. I’m so thankful that their continued partnership has made it possible to bring back the Weekend Edition!
October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and Midwestern is hosting a giveaway of $10,000 to celebrate one faithful pastor (including a $5,000 donation to the church and $5,000 towards a well-deserved family vacation for the pastor).
Plus, anyone who enters or nominates their pastor will receive a free ebook of Spurgeon the Pastor by Midwestern professor Geoff Chang.
You can nominate your pastor (or, if you are a pastor, enter yourself!) right here.
WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
The Gracious Lips of Jesus
Imagination’s utmost stretch cannot conceive of anything more gracious; and the contemplation of the most devoted Christian cannot think of any words more majestic in goodness, more tender in sympathy, more full of honey, and more luscious in their sweetness, than the gracious words that proceeded out of the lips of Jesus Christ.
Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.
A FREE RESOURCE FROM MIDWESTERN
Should Christians Hope in Old Testament Promises?
In grasping how OT promises relate to us, we must not say, “We are part of the new covenant, and therefore old covenant promises do not apply to us.” In fact, the NT is very quick to cite OT promises—assuming their lasting significance!
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