A.W. Pink: Failure of the Pulpit

“During the last two or three generations the pulpit has given less and less prominence to doctrinal preaching, until today, with very rare exceptions, it has no place at all.  In some quarters the cry from the pew was, ‘we want living experience and not dry doctrine’; in others, ‘we need practical sermons and not …

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The Old Cross and The New

All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental. From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new …

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The Rush to Relevance is the Road to Ruin

I’d love to know who sold Christians and clergy the bogus notion that the church somehow needs to be more “relevant” to the culture in order to win it for Christ. You can hardly escape the word in Christian circles today. It’s absolutely everywhere believers are, and is used incessantly alongside other trendy terms like …

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C.H. Spurgeon: Turn or Burn (1)

A Sermon Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 7, 1856, by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens “ If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready ”  Psalm 7:12 If the sinner turn not, God will whet his sword.” So, …

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Spurgeon Quotes on Easy Believism

What is the use of religion which comes up in a night, and perishes as soon? Ah, me! what empty bragging we have heard! The thing was done, but then it was never worth doing; soon things were as if it had never been done; and, moreover, this sham way of doing it made it …

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