C.H.Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher
by Peter Morden
Paperback
Price: £9.99
Publisher:CWR (Crusade for World Revival)
Published:February 2010
ISBN:978-1-853-45497-4
GoodBookStall Review:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was known as “The boy preacher of the Fens,” “The People’s Preacher” and, at his funeral, “The Prince of Preachers.” He was the outstanding preacher of the nineteenth century, but he was much more than just a preacher.
Born in Kelvedon in 1834, converted at fifteen in a Primitive Methodist Chapel in Colchester and baptised at Isleham Ferry, Spurgeon was soon teaching in Sunday School at Newmarket and preaching in the local chapels. A year after his conversion he was called to pastor the chapel at Waterbeach where, within two years, the regular congregation grew from 40 to 400 - a sign of what was to come in his outstanding London ministry.
Morden covers those London years in a way that enables us to visualise what it was like to join the huge crowds that gathered every Sunday to hear Spurgeon preach. He also takes us into other areas of Spurgeon’s ministry: his pastoral care, his initiation of relief for the poor, the Pastors’ College and the Stockwell Orphanage (later to become respectively Spurgeon’s College and Spurgeons).
In this well-written and easy to read book the author helps us understand Spurgeon the man and what drove him ,and his wife Susannah’s unreserved support.
He enables us to feel what it was like to be one of his theological students and what life was like for the children at his orphanage.
This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anyone wanting to know more about this great nineteenth century preacher, and will be an inspiration to everyone seeking to serve God through the life of their church.
A proportion of the royalties from the sales of the book will be donated to Spurgeons for children and young people.
The order code for the DVD of this book is 5027957001220, price 15.99
Reviewer: Graham Wise (27/07/10)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was known as “The boy preacher of the Fens,” “The People’s Preacher” and, at his funeral, “The Prince of Preachers.” He was the outstanding preacher of the nineteenth century, but he was much more than just a preacher.
Born in Kelvedon in 1834, converted at fifteen in a Primitive Methodist Chapel in Colchester and baptised at Isleham Ferry, Spurgeon was soon teaching in Sunday School at Newmarket and preaching in the local chapels. A year after his conversion he was called to pastor the chapel at Waterbeach where, within two years, the regular congregation grew from 40 to 400 - a sign of what was to come in his outstanding London ministry.
Morden covers those London years in a way that enables us to visualise what it was like to join the huge crowds that gathered every Sunday to hear Spurgeon preach. He also takes us into other areas of Spurgeon’s ministry: his pastoral care, his initiation of relief for the poor, the Pastors’ College and the Stockwell Orphanage (later to become respectively Spurgeon’s College and Spurgeons).
In this well-written and easy to read book the author helps us understand Spurgeon the man and what drove him ,and his wife Susannah’s unreserved support.
He enables us to feel what it was like to be one of his theological students and what life was like for the children at his orphanage.
This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anyone wanting to know more about this great nineteenth century preacher, and will be an inspiration to everyone seeking to serve God through the life of their church.
A proportion of the royalties from the sales of the book will be donated to Spurgeons for children and young people.
The order code for the DVD of this book is 5027957001220, price 15.99
Reviewer: Graham Wise (27/07/10)
