It's one of the most enjoyable....and certainly the easiest part of writing these posts....just pointing readers to wonderful Christian resources. If they were to go to a ligonier.org or a gty.org or a whitehorseinn.org then I hope they would never even come back.
J.C. Ryle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon were two great lights in Great Britain during the last half of the 19th century....kind of like how Billy Graham and R. C. Sproul were two great lights in America in our day! Both Spurgeon and Ryle warned the church of where it was going....(actually all four had)....and both faced opposition.....even great and respected as they were. Spurgeon died in 1892.....Ryle eight years later.
If I were to look about ten feet to my left from where I am sitting I would see a beautiful framed single page of original sermon notes of Charles Spurgeon. Someone took shorthand of his sermons.....then Spurgeon edited them if necessary with a different color pen.....and then the sermons went around the world! This single page of a March 1890 sermon titled "Christ Precious To Believers" was a gift from our son.
I listened this morning to a particular sermon of J. C. Ryle's titled Counterfeit Christianity while walking a treadmill. It's about an hour long....but I'm sure that you would be greatly edified if you Googled....J C Ryle, Counterfeit Christianity and sat down to listen to it. Now it's not J. C. Ryle's voice.....that's unfortunate because we all know that the mere presence of a British accent makes us listen more attentively.....but it's still wonderful to hear.
It's said that one woman in London was converted to faith in Jesus Christ simply by reading one page of a Spurgeon sermon that was wrapped around the butter she bought. I don't doubt that for a moment. So please.....if you are tired of all my political writing.....(I'm tired also)......then go to this sermon adaptation.....I'm confident that you'll never have to return to my pitiful attempts at sharing the Gospel!
Hey.....how about this.....print this post.....wrap up a candy apple or something nice.....and give it to a friend!
Reminder....SiriusXm temporarily dedicated a channel to Billy Graham after he died in early 2018.....but the response must have been good because they have since made....channel 460....a permanent Billy Graham Channel.
J.C. Ryle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon were two great lights in Great Britain during the last half of the 19th century....kind of like how Billy Graham and R. C. Sproul were two great lights in America in our day! Both Spurgeon and Ryle warned the church of where it was going....(actually all four had)....and both faced opposition.....even great and respected as they were. Spurgeon died in 1892.....Ryle eight years later.
If I were to look about ten feet to my left from where I am sitting I would see a beautiful framed single page of original sermon notes of Charles Spurgeon. Someone took shorthand of his sermons.....then Spurgeon edited them if necessary with a different color pen.....and then the sermons went around the world! This single page of a March 1890 sermon titled "Christ Precious To Believers" was a gift from our son.
I listened this morning to a particular sermon of J. C. Ryle's titled Counterfeit Christianity while walking a treadmill. It's about an hour long....but I'm sure that you would be greatly edified if you Googled....J C Ryle, Counterfeit Christianity and sat down to listen to it. Now it's not J. C. Ryle's voice.....that's unfortunate because we all know that the mere presence of a British accent makes us listen more attentively.....but it's still wonderful to hear.
It's said that one woman in London was converted to faith in Jesus Christ simply by reading one page of a Spurgeon sermon that was wrapped around the butter she bought. I don't doubt that for a moment. So please.....if you are tired of all my political writing.....(I'm tired also)......then go to this sermon adaptation.....I'm confident that you'll never have to return to my pitiful attempts at sharing the Gospel!
Hey.....how about this.....print this post.....wrap up a candy apple or something nice.....and give it to a friend!
Reminder....SiriusXm temporarily dedicated a channel to Billy Graham after he died in early 2018.....but the response must have been good because they have since made....channel 460....a permanent Billy Graham Channel.
