That’ll preach
by chuckofish
Amen, brother.
Read the Bible, find a church with good biblical preaching. And also this. “Let us fall before the majesty of our great God.”
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Tag: Charles Spurgeon
June 19, 2018
“Cheer up now, you faint-hearted warrior…”*
by chuckofish
Today is the birthday of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 –-January 31, 1892) who was an extraordinary English preacher. Theologically he was a Calvinist, denominationally he was a Baptist, and he said, “if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, ‘It is Jesus Christ.'” When he died in 1892, London went into mourning. Nearly 60,000 people came to pay homage during the three days his body lay in state at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Some 100,000 lined the streets as a funeral parade two miles long followed his hearse from the Tabernacle to the cemetery. Flags flew at half-staff and shops and pubs were closed.
Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle today
Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations among whom he is still known as the “Prince of Preachers.”
I can attest to the fact that he is alive and well on Instagram.
I am no lover of memes and quotes taken out of context, but I have to admit, I like a little Spurgeon in my Instagram feed!
Interesting flyover tie-in: William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri purchased Spurgeon’s 5,103-volume library collection for £500 ($2500) in 1906. The collection was purchased by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri in 2006 for $400,000 and can be seen on display at the Spurgeon Center on the campus of Midwestern Seminary.
*”…Not only has Christ traveled the road, but He has defeated your enemies.” (CS)
February 9, 2017
A quiet heart
by chuckofish
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)
It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and mis-trusting. What can we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can we gain anything by fearing and fuming? Do we not unfit ourselves for action and unhinge our minds for wise decision? We are sinking by our struggles when we might float by faith.
Oh, for grace to be quiet! Why run from house to house to repeat the weary story which makes us more and more heart-sick as we tell it? Why even stay at home to cry out in agony because of wretched forebodings which may never be fulfilled? It would be well to keep a quiet tongue, but it would be far better if we had a quiet heart. Oh, to be still and know that Jehovah is God!
Oh, for grace to be confident in God! The holy One of Israel must defend and deliver His own. He cannot run back from His solemn declarations. We may make sure that every word of His will stand though the mountains should depart. He deserves to be confided in; and if we would display confidence and consequent quietness, we might be as happy as the spirits before the throne.
Come, my soul, return unto thy rest, and lean thy head upon the bosom of the Lord Jesus.
–C.H. Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook
One thing I have learned as I get older is that worrying gets us nowhere.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
(Matt 6:25-27)
Not worrying takes work. And patience. And faith.
Trusting that God is in control is key. And also freeing. Thy will be done.
Blue and White Tea Cups by Laura Lacambra Shubert (Pinterest)
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