Advice to his students by the Prince of Preachers on the general 'matter' of sermons. His headline points are worth remembering:
1: "Sermons should have real teaching in them, and their doctrine should be solid, substantial and abundant"
2: ".......their must be abundance of matter in sermons, and next, this matter must be congruous to the text"
3: "Take care that your deliverances are always weighty, and full of really important teaching"
4: "........guided by the Holy Spirit to give a clear testimony to all the doctrines which constitute or lie around the gospel"
5: "........in your pulpit utterances to deal with important verities, you must not for ever hover around the mere angles of truth"
6: "........do not overload a sermon with too much matter"
7: "Our matter should be well arranged"
8: "Your doctrinal teaching should be clear and well arranged"
9: "Endeavour to keep the matter of your sermonising as fresh as you can"
10: "Let you teachings grow and advance"
11: ".......it must be our aim to use the subject in hand with energy and effect......."
12: "PREACH CHRIST!"
These points are well amplified with Spurgeon's usual illustrations drawn from personal experience, and his emphasis on the need for clarity and simplicity in gospel preaching.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the...
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