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.
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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.
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