Sermons to Light your Fire

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Dear Preacher,

I wonder if you are as great of an admirer of Charles Spurgeon as I am? His influence has impacted Christianity, and Christian preaching perhaps more than any other since Biblical times.

It is said that he preached to approximately 10,000,000 people in his lifetime, often up to 10 times in a given week. Spurgeon was the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years.

While Spurgeon was a pastor, author, teacher, and much more, he is best known for his sermons, as they stood above most of what was available in his day, and I would say, in ours also. Thankfully, his printed messages are still available to us for purchase at our Christian bookstores.

But did you know that he produced another dynamic compilation for other preachers, known simply as "Spurgeon's Sermon Notes"? This is a collection of Spurgeon's in-depth Sermon Outlines, rather than completed manuscripts.

These sermon outlines can be used in the following manner:

• To read for personal edification

• To learn how to best structure a message

• To use as a teacher's guide for instructing others

• To edit, adapt, and preach to your own congregation

The most amazing discovery you'll find when you read this collection, is how absolutely relevant these messages are for today. Of course, the language seems stilted to us, but not difficult to read or comprehend. In fact, Spurgeon had a way of explaining the most complex theological truths in a way that a child could understand.

As a preacher, this is what I suggest -- use these sermons in any of the ways listed above, but do not hesitate to take these outlines, and make them your own. That's why they were made available. With a few minutes worth of editing, they will be as fresh as anything you've written in the last year!

What The Gospel Ministries is offering, is the complete collection of 264 In-Depth Sermon Outlines in PDF (Adobe) format.

Please click on this link that follows to download this great free offer:

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He That Watereth Shall Be Watered Also

e are taught here the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and that in order to become spiritually vigorous, we must seek the spiritual good of others. In watering others, we are ourselves watered. How? Our efforts to be useful, bring out our powers for usefulness. We have latend talents and dormant faculties, which are brought to light by exercise. Our strength for labour is hidden even from ourselves, until we venture forth to fight the Lord's battles, or to climb the mountains of difficulty. We do not know what tender sympathies we possess until we try to dry the widow's tears, and soothe the orphan's grief.

We often find in attempting to teach others, that we gain instruction for ourselves. Oh, what gracious lessons some of us have learned at sick beds! We went to teach the Scriptures, we came away blushing that we knew so little of them. In our converse with poor saints, we are taught the way of God more perfectly for ourselves and get a deeper insight into divine truth. So that watering others makes us humble. We discover how much grace there is where we had not looked for it; and how much the poor saint may outstrip us in knowledge.

Our own comfort is also increased by our working for others. We endeavour to cheer them, and the consolation gladdens our own hurt. Like the two men in the snow; one chafed the other's limbs to keep him from dying, and in so doing kept his own blood in circulation, and saved his own life. The poor widow of Sarepta gave from her scanty store a supply for the prophet's wants, and from that day she never again knew what want was. Give then, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and running over.

                                                                                                            — Charles H. Spurgeon