The Pastor's Blog

“There is a distinct connection between importunate agonising and true success, even as between the travail and the birth, the sowing of tears and the reaping of joy”  (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 45).Read more

“None are so able to plead with men as those who have been wrestling with God on their behalf” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 43).Read more

On those who aspire to ministry, “those who cannot endure hardship, but are of the kid-gloved order, I refer elsewhere.  We want soldiers, not fops, earnest labourers, not genteel loiterers.  Men who have done nothing up to their time of application to the college, are told to earn their spurs before they are publicly dubbedRead more

“Men who since conversion have betrayed great feebleness of mind and are readily led to embrace strange doctrines, or to fall into evil company and gross sin, I never can find it in my heart to encourage to enter the ministry, let their professions be what they may.  Let them, if truly penitent, keep inRead more

“I could never be satisfied with a full congregation and the kind expressions of friends; I longed to hear that hearts had been broken, that tears had been seen streaming from the eyes of penitents” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 28).Read more

“We must feel that woe is unto us if we preach not the gospel; the word of God must be unto us a fire in our bones, otherwise, if we undertake the ministry, we shall be unhappy in it, shall be unable to bear the self-denials incident to it, and shall be of little serviceRead more

“The first sign of the heavenly call is an intense, all-absorbing desire for the work” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 23).Read more

“As a general rule, I hate the fashions of society, and detest conventionalities, and if I conceived it best to put my foot through a law of etiquette, I should feel gratified in having it to do” (C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 17).Read more