PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
At this time, great Father, will you visit this church with your great favor; and as you have abounded toward us these many years in blessing, so give us now some new token, some fresh visitation for good. Lord, you have not always given summer weather to the field of nature, but spring comes on and summer returns. Oh give us summer weather as a church. May there be a great revival of religion in all the members, and especially in the minds of such as are growing cold or indifferent to holy things. Wherever there is any laxity of life, any slight holding of precious truth; wherever the world is creeping in with its corroding influences; wherever there is anything of sin, which our eye do not see, but which yours eye detects, be pleased to put it away. Fill the whole church with unity, with love, with life, with power.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
Holy Work for Christmas
The shepherds need no excuse for making everywhere the announcement of the Saviour’s birth, for what they told they first received from heaven. When heaven entrusts a man with a merciful revelation, he is bound to deliver the good tidings to others. What, keep that a secret whose utterance eternal mercy makes to charm the midnight air?
Beloved, you have heard a voice from heaven — you twice-born men, begotten again unto a lively hope, you have heard the Spirit of God bearing witness of God’s truth with you, and teaching you of heavenly things. You then must keep this Christmas by telling to your fellow-men what God’s own holy Spirit has seen fit to reveal to you.
Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.
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