Digital Logos Edition
My Sermon Notes contains hundreds of sermon outlines from the entire Bible, and provides a unique perspective on Spurgeon’s method of sermon preparation. In these four volumes, Spurgeon offers advice on selecting texts and themes for sermons, as well as frameworks for sermon plans. In this resource Spurgeon includes a model outline, illustrations, and anecdotes for sermons on the Old and New Testaments. The Logos Bible Software edition of My Sermon Notes, Volumes 1 & 2: Genesis to Malachi was originally published in London by Passmore and Alabaster in 1884.
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.
“for the memory loves to be trusted, and the more fully it is relied upon the more does it respond to our confidence” (Page 5)
“When Jacob had prevailed with God he had no reason to fear Esau” (Page 12)
“His ground of trust was the sacrifice, not his hands.” (Page 40)
“When a candle is newly lighted and needs to be moved, it must be carried at a slow pace or it will be extinguished. A fire which is almost expiring may be revived by a gentle breath, but it will be blown out if the bellows are plied at their full force. You can drown a little plant by watering it too much, and destroy a lovely flower by exposing it to too much sun.” (Page 23)
“He said to them, ‘Preach Christ to the people, brethren. Look at me: in myself I am nothing but ruin. But look at me in Christ; I am heaven and salvation.’ ’” (Page 41)
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