Lectures to My Students
Ebook
Overview
Though best remembered as the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, C. H. Spurgeon was also founder and president of the Pastors College in London. He supervised the training of over 800 students, presided at an annual conference for ministers, and, on Friday afternoons, delivered regular lectures on every aspect of pulpit ministry. Featuring such gems as “The Ministers Fainting Fits” “Posture, Action, Gesture, etc.” and “On the Choice of a Text,” this unabridged edition of 28 of Spurgeon’s classroom discourses on homiletics overflows with practical wisdom, discerning wit, and sage advice. Covering the call, open-air preaching, ordinary conversations, using illustrations, and conduct outside the church, Spurgeon’s words are as rich and nourishing for pastors and students today as they were more than a century ago.
CHAPTERS INCLUDE
- The Ministers Self-Watch
- Our Public Prayer
- On Spiritualizing
- The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear
- On Conversion as Our Aim
- The Sciences as Sources of Illustration
Top Highlights
“It should be one of our first cares that we ourselves be saved men.” (source)
“True and genuine piety is necessary as the first indispensable requisite; whatever ‘call’ a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.” (source)
“In the second place, combined with the earnest desire to become a pastor, there must be aptness to teach and some measure of the other qualities needful for the office of a public instructor.” (source)
“It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.” (source)
“It will be a happy circumstance if you are so guided by the Holy Spirit as to give a clear testimony to all the doctrines which constitute or lie around the gospel. No truth is to be kept back.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Lectures to My Students
- Author: Spurgeon, Charles H.
- Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9781598565874
Reviews
2 ratings
David Anfinrud
3/23/2024
I would recommend this book and if you can also pick up "Shepherd's Notes: Lectures to My Students" you get notes for each Lecture. They are a good combination to own. The two together will add much to the understanding of being a Preacher and Expanding your Christian Life.Patrick
1/19/2022
This is an interesting collection of lectures that should be read by anyone thinking of going into ministry or those early in seminary. There are some dated ideas but the spirit of the advice is sound. Spurgeon makes some amazing points and offers some learned points of view. Some readers might have issue with reading about his speaking on how to speak with proper enunciation or the eating habits around church services. A tad bit on the dated side but an interesting and inspiring read for those who carry God's Word to the people. Final Grade - B-
