Whatever his natural gifts, whatever his mental powers may be, he is utterly out of court for spiritual work if he has no spiritual life; and it is his duty to cease the ministerial office till he has received this first and simplest of qualifications for it. C. H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: A Selection from Addresses Delivered to…
True and genuine piety is necessary as the first indispensable requisite; whatever “call” a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry. C. H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: A Selection from Addresses Delivered to the Students of the Pastors’ College, Metropolitan Tabernacle., vol. 1 (London:…
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. For the herald of the gospel to be spiritually out of order in his own proper person is, both to himself and to his work, a most serious calamity; and yet, my brethren, how easily…
Somebody says, “Explain the virgin birth.” I don’t have to. Friend, you can’t even explain a natural birth. I don’t have to explain miracles any more than I have to explain God. And, incidentally, I wouldn’t have any confidence in a God I could explain. I’m glad that we’ve got a God that is inexplicable. I’m glad that we’ve got…
David Wells, in an outstanding book entitled, No Place for Truth, made this salient observation: The loss of the traditional vision of God as holy, is now manifested every-where in the evangelical world. It is the key to understanding why sin and grace have become such empty terms. What depth or meaning. . .can these terms have except in relation…
Adrian Rodgers used the following illustration in his message on Isaiah 6.I believe it is a beautiful illustration of really getting right with God. We have to be humble enough to tell the truth. Some today will never be cleansed, because they’ll never make such a confession. So many people spend so much time justifying themselves. I read a long…
