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A few days ago, I posted a vision for dad dominated children and youth ministries.  It was a call for fathers to take a more predominant place in those ministries.   Now reading the autobiography of Charles Spurgeon, I find we share kindred sentiments.  I just came across this germane quote (emphasis mine): I love to
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“Avoid that childish trifling and outrageous twisting of texts which will make you a wise man among fools, but a fool among wise men” (C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 106).
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“Let your prayers be earnest, full of fire, vehemence, prevalence” (Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, p. 71).
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“Certain brethren do not even manage to keep unity in the sermon, but wander from Britain to Japan, and bring in all imaginable subjects…” (Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, p. 69).
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“I have noticed a habit among some – I hope you have not fallen into it – of praying with their eyes open.  It is unnatural, unbecoming, and disgusting” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 68).
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“…it is my solemn conviction that the prayer is one of the most weighty, useful, and honourable parts of the service, and that it ought to be even more considered than the sermon” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 59).
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