Sermons & Devotionals by Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon
The Unrivaled Friend
The Unrivaled Friend Charles Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 9/7/1869 "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."—Proverbs 17:17. THERE is one thing about the usefulness of which all men are agreed, namely, friendship; but most men are soon aware that counterfeits... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Our Stronghold
Our Stronghold No. 491. A Sermon Delivered on Sunday Evening, October 26th, 1862, By C. H. Spurgeon, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe." Proverbs 18:10 (kjv) "The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godl... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Pride And Humility
Pride and Humility Charles Spurgeon New Park Street Chapel, Southwark 8/17/1856 "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility."—Proverbs 18:12. ALMOST every event has its prophetic prelude. It is an old and common saying, that "coming events cast their shadows before ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
A Faithful Friend
A Faithful Friend Charles Spurgeon Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens 3/8/1857 "There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother."—Proverbs 18:24. CICERO has well said, "Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed." Friendship seems as necessa... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Buying The Truth
Buying the Truth Charles Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 6/26/1870 "Buy the truth, and sell it not."—Proverbs 23:23. JOHN Bunyan pictures the pilgrims as passing at one time through Vanity Fair, and in Vanity Fair there were to be found all kinds of merchandise, consisting of the pomps a... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
A Home Mission Sermon
A Home Mission Sermon Charles Spurgeon Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens 6/26/1859 "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go."—Ecclesiastes 9:10. IF GOD had willed it we might each one of us have ent... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Vines With Tender Grapes
Vines With Tender Grapes ( Charles Spurgeon ) "The the vines with the tender grapes spread their fragrance" Song of Songs 2:13 The vine is of all trees the most useless unless it bears fruit. You can make hardly anything of it; you would scarcely be able to cut enough wood out of a vine to hang a po... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Beware Of Foxes
Beware of Foxes! ( Charles Spurgeon ) "Catch the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." Song of Songs 2:15 Dear young friends who have lately found Christ, there are foxes about. We try all we can to stop the gaps in the hedge, that we may keep the foxes out... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The Silver Trumpet
The Silver Trumpet Charles Spurgeon Exeter Hall, Strand 3/24/1861 "Come near, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."—Isaiah 1:18. THE chief of sinners are objects of the choic... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
A Vision Of The Latter-Day Glories
A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories Charles Spurgeon Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens 04/24/1859 "And it shall come to pas in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The Well-Beloved'S Vineyard
The Well-Beloved’s Vineyard (An address to a little company of believers, in Spurgeon’s sick room at Mentone, France) "My well-beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill." Isaiah 5:1 We recognize at once that Jesus is here. Who but He can be meant by "My Well-beloved"? Here is a word of possessi... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
His Name, Wonderful!
His Name, Wonderful! Charles Spurgeon Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens 9/19/1858 "His name shall be called Wonderful."—Isaiah 9:6. ONE EVENING LAST WEEK I stood by the sea-shore when the storm was raging. The voice of the Lord was upon the waters; and who was I that I should tarry within doors, when... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Pleasant Plants And Desperate Sorrow
PLEASANT PLANTS AND DESPERATE SORROW Preached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on December 23rd, 1860, by J. C. Philpot "Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants , and shall set it with st... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Good Cheer For Christmas
Good Cheer for Christmas Charles Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 12/20/1868 "And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined."—Isaiah 25:6. WE have nearl... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The Keeper Of The Vineyard
The Keeper of the Vineyard No. 2391. A Sermon, Intended for Reading on Lord’s-day, December 16th, 1894. Delivered by C. H. Spurgeon, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington on Lord’s-day Evening, July 5th, 1863. "I the Lord do keep it, I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The Bed And Its Covering
The Bed and Its Covering Charles Spurgeon New Park Street Chapel, Southwark 1/9/1859 "For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it."—Isaiah 28:20. GOD HAS SO made men, that there are two things essential for their com... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
Threshing
Threshing by C. H. Spurgeon "Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The Voice Behind You
The Voice Behind You Charles Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 07/23/1882 "And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left."—Isaiah 30:21. ON the Sabbath before last we spoke concerning "the... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
The King In His Beauty
The King in His Beauty Charles Spurgeon Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington 5/26/1867 "Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off."—Isaiah 33:17. WHEN the Assyrians had invaded Judea with an immense army, and were about to attack Jerusalem, Rab-shakeh ... Read More
Charles Spurgeon
All These Things
All These Things — A Sermon With Three Texts No. 837. Delivered on Sunday Morning, October 18th, 1868, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. " All these things are against me." Isaiah 38:16 "O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: s... Read More
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He was converted to Christ at the age of 16 and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was 21. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people. He withdrew from every movement among English Baptists which tended to criticize the Authorized Version 1611 in any way.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions.