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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 [1] – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher . Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers."
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Jun 6, 2018 · Learn about the life and ministry of Charles Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers" and a Victorian, Calvinistic, Baptist pastor. Discover his evangelistic zeal, his theological influence, his pastoral care, and his writings.
Apr 10, 2013 · John Piper, a Reformed pastor and theologian, delivers the inaugural Spurgeon Lecture at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He praises Spurgeon as a Calvinist who preached the whole counsel of God and exalted Jesus Christ.
- His ministry began in the year of his conversion as a young man. Spurgeon was raised in a Christian home, but was converted in 1850 at fifteen years old.
- He was a man of hard work and huge influence. He went on to preach in person up to thirteen times per week, gathered the largest church of his day, and could make himself heard in a crowd of twenty-three thousand people (without amplification).
- He was self-consciously a theological and doctrinal preacher. While Spurgeon is not known as a theologian as such, he was nevertheless a deeply theological thinker and his sermons were rich in doctrine, and dripping with knowledge of historical theology – especially the Puritans.
- He was pre-eminently a theologian and preacher of the cross. Spurgeon’s was a cross-centered and cross-shaped theology, for the cross was “the hour” of Christ’s glorification (John 12:23–24), the place where Christ was and is exalted, the only message able to overturn the hearts of men and women otherwise enslaved to sin.
Jun 15, 2024 · C.H. Spurgeon (born June 19, 1834, Kelvedon, Essex, Eng.—died Jan. 31, 1892, Menton, France) was an English fundamentalist Baptist minister and celebrated preacher whose sermons, which were often spiced with humour, were widely translated and extremely successful in sales.
Jan 30, 2013 · January 31, 2013 it will have been 121 years since the great preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed away. In memory of him I bring to you 32 things you might not know about Charles...
