Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers
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Overview
Charles Haddon Spurgeon is the most widely read and extensively quoted preacher in Christian history. Drawn from over 40,000 pages of Spurgeon’s own works, Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers is a collection of over 5,000 illustrations and anecdotes sorted under more than 1,000 topical headings. In this volume you will find heart-warming devotional reading, powerful illustrations for preaching and teaching and sound Biblical wisdom.
Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers is a helpful tool for both the pastor and the devotional reader. This book contains something for everyone, from wise counsel to calls to deeper faithfulness; from piercing illustrations to life-enriching maxims.
Key Features
- Over 5,000 illustrations, all original and unabridged.
- Quotes drawn from Spurgeon’s written works as well as his spoken words. This includes the entire 63-volume Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit series as well as 30 additional books he wrote.
- Over 1,000 headings and sub-topics.
- A synonym grouping appendix with forty-four main headings making searching for related synonymous illustrations easier.
- Three books in one, with Section One containing material of general interest and Section Two containing material of special interest to preachers, teachers, and ministry leaders. A third section with salvation illustrations and anecdotes is also included.
- A blend of one-liners, longer anecdotes, and extended illustrations.
- An extensive system of referencing the source materials for additional reading and study from the original writings.
Top Highlights
“The way to liberate our souls from the bonds that tie us to earth is to strengthen the cords that bind us to heaven” (Page 2)
“The more unfit you feel yourself to be, the more you are invited to come: your very unfitness is your fitness for coming to Jesus.” (Page 561)
“God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.” (Page 1)
“It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that his word should sustain us?” (Page 39)
“If hunger brings us to our knees it is more useful” (Page 326)
Praise for the Print Edition
Spurgeon was the master of the pithy quote. In fact, no author I have ever read is as quotable as Spurgeon. His published sermons as well as his books are a fertile source for ideas, expressions, illustrations, and axioms that help make biblical truth clear. I have on my shelves several anthologies of Spurgeon quotations. But none is as exhaustive, as carefully assembled, or as useful as this massive collection . . .
—Dr. John MacArthur
- Title: Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers
- Editor: Kerry James Allen
- Publisher: Fox River Press
- Publication Date: 2004
- Pages: 550
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England on June 19, 1834. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel, to which he detoured during a snowstorm. While there, he heard a sermon on Isaiah 45:22 and was saved—“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.” He began his own ministry of preaching and teaching immediately, and preached more than 500 sermons by the age of twenty.
In 1854, at nineteen years of age, Spurgeon began preaching at the New Park Street Chapel in London. He was appointed to a six month trial position, which he requested be cut to three months should the congregation dislike his preaching. He gained instant fame, however, and the church grew from 232 members to more than five thousand at the end of his pastorate. Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in twenty languages. Throughout his ministry, Spurgeon estimated that he preached to more than 10,000,000 people. Dwight L. Moody was deeply influenced by Spurgeon’s preaching, and founded the Moody Bible Institute after seeing Spurgeon’s work at the Pastor’s College in London.
Spurgeon read six books per week during his adult life, and read Pilgrim’s Progress more than 100 times. In addition to his studying and preaching, Spurgeon also founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College), various orphanages and schools, mission chapels, and numerous other social institutions.
Charles Spurgeon suffered from poor health throughout his life. He died on January 31, 1892, and was buried in London.
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