…A minister with his Bible is like David with his sling and stone, fully equipped for the fray. – C.S. Spurgeon, Lecture to My Students
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Cheer Up, Pastor
…I commend cheerfulness to all who would win souls; not levity and frothiness, but a genial happy spirit. There are more flies caught with honey than with vinegar – C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Pastors, Stop Dominating Conversations
…A man has no more right at table to talk all than to eat all. – C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Our Own Tools
My dad loves working on engines. And, by extension, he loves his tools. I never once saw my dad put a tool away without wiping it off and storing it in its proper place.
In Lectures to My Students, C.H. Spurgeon wrote of ministers:
We are, in a certain sense, our own tools, and therefore must keep ourselves in order.
Ministers can only preach with their own voice. They can only reason with their own …