Sermons

From From the Heart of Spurgeon

Sermons tagged with an (S####) code in the title.

Episodes

Job Among the Ashes (S2009) 2026-07-03
A thoroughly experimental sermon, in which Spurgeon takes Job as something of a template for all believers, suggesting that Job was favoured (as…
Number Two-thousand; or, Healing by the Stripes of Jesus (S2000) 2026-06-26
This sermon is numerically significant on several levels. It is the two thousandth sermon, the last sermon of Volume XXXIII in the Metropolitan…
The Heart—A Gift for God (S1995) 2026-06-19
This briefer sermon is ‘intended for reading’, which usually indicates a sick man writing or editing a previous address for distribution. Brevity…
A Sermon for the Time Present (S1990) 2026-06-12
By October of 1887 the Downgrade Controversy—the battle against doctrinal decay in the professing church of Christ—was in full swing. Letters had…
Folly of Unbelief (S1980) 2026-06-05
It is by no means deliberate that the last few sermons have not had the ‘classic’ Spurgeon three point structure, but I hope that it at least…
The Covenanter (S1975) 2026-05-29
“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.” So writes the man of God in Psalm 25:10, and so…
God’s Thoughts of Peace, and Our Expected End (S1965) 2026-05-22
The simple structure of this two-pronged sermon by no means provides for any shallowness. The bulk of the address is given over to a careful…
The Watchword for To-day: “Stand Fast” (S1959) 2026-05-15
The apostle Paul had a holy dread of the Philippians sliding away from the faith of Jesus Christ. Spurgeon says he does not doubt the victory, but…
Earthquake, but not Heartquake (S1950) 2026-05-08
After a brief survey of the ways in which Psalm has been a blessing to true believers through the century, Spurgeon tells us how he intends to use…
Eternal Life Within Present Grasp (S1946) 2026-05-01
From time to time Spurgeon preaches a sermon from multiple texts. Some of these are by way of development, some by way of contrast, some by way of…
The Master-key, Opening the Gate of Heaven (S1938) 2026-04-24
The text is Genesis 32:12, part of Jacob’s prayer to the Lord his God: “For you said, ‘I will surely treat you well…” In Spurgeon’s translation, it…
Love’s Law and Life (S1932) 2026-04-17
Spurgeon’s gospel logic is uncomplicated, in principle and in practice, and it shows here. Our Lord says, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” It…
Love’s Complaining (S1926) 2026-04-10
Here is another probing sermon, profitable even when painful. Here is the Christ walking among the Ephesian church in Revelation 2, first of all…
The Great Sin of Doing Nothing (S1916) 2026-04-03
I doubt that anyone who reads Spurgeon with any consistency and seriousness thinks of him as a soft preacher. Some may have a notion of him as some…
A Seasonable Exhortation (S1909) 2026-03-27
“These are days of great looseness; everywhere I see great laxity of doctrinal belief, and gross carelessness in religious practice. Christian…
Rejoice Evermore (S1900) 2026-03-20
Repeatedly, insistently, joyfully, earnestly, Spurgeon pounds away on the same drum: “Rejoice evermore!” His introduction is unusually long,…
Mouth and Heart (S1898) 2026-03-13
Racing through his text, throwing light upon it from various angles, Spurgeon gives us a sermon full of hope, because full of Christ. He begins by…
Pleading for Prayer (S1887) 2026-03-06
A simple division and a thorough exposition form the bedrock of a sermon urging the saints to pray. Rising from Paul’s plea to the Romans at the end…
Exhortation—“Set your Heart” (S1884) 2026-02-27
In this brief address, Spurgeon acknowledges that his text—“Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God”—fits best those who are…
A Discourse upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter (S1874) 2026-02-20
This is another simple sermon in two parts. Whereas the previous sermon offered a stark contrast between the wages of sin and the gift of life, this…
Death and Life: the Wage and the Gift (S1868) 2026-02-13
Spurgeon is not a mindless preacher, stuck in a rut of structure, though he is always recognisably himself in style. Here he begins with a brief…
The Cross our Glory (S1859) 2026-02-06
Here is Spurgeon at the heart of his ministerial and pastoral calling: glorying in the cross of a crucified Christ. Here is the essential power of…
The Foundation and the Seal: A Sermon for the Times (S1854) 2026-01-30
This sermon sounds a note of concern. The Second Letter to Timothy has a consistent awareness of certain threats to the gospel and its ministers, a…
Before Sermon, at Sermon, and after Sermon (S1847) 2026-01-23
A simple sermon, and yet one that hits home. The texts is James 1:21–22, and Spurgeon does little more than run through the text, taking each…
A Question for a Questioner (S1843) 2026-01-16
Sometimes people ask a hard question: “Has God forgotten to be gracious?” It is not hard to answer, in one sense, but it shows a certain hardness in…
Elijah’s Plea (S1832) 2026-01-09
Elijah’s plea was simple: “Let it be known that I have done all these things at your word.” Spurgeon turns it in two directions. First, to obedient…
Exceeding Gladness (S1827) 2026-01-02
Our Lord Jesus, insists Spurgeon, was not only a man of sorrows, but a man of joys. He knew joys in his humiliation, and he knows joys in his…
A Sweet Silver Bell Ringing in Each Believer’s Heart (S1819) 2025-12-26
What may seem to be a slightly twee title contains a very sweet truth: “My God will hear me.” With such a brief phrase, Spurgeon simply unpacks it,…
Commendation for the Steadfast (S1814) 2025-12-19
“The Philadelphian church was not great, but it was good; it was not powerful, but it was faithful.” Does that describe the congregation to which…
A Summary of Experience and A Body of Divinity (S1806) 2025-12-12
There is a splash of sentiment in this selection, because this is another sermon of Spurgeon’s which I remember reading in preparation for…
Pleading and Encouragement (S1795) 2025-12-05
There is a particular trick which our Adversary loves to use both to hinder sinners and to disturb saints, and that is to paint the character of God…
Understandest Thou What Thou Readest? (S1792) 2025-11-28
Preached at Exeter Hall to a congregation which seems to have consisted largely if not exclusively of young men, an extended introduction about the…
The First Fruit of the Spirit (S1782) 2025-11-21
This week we finally crest the peak of our reading of Spurgeon’s sermons, crossing the halfway line in our reading through the Passmore &…
God’s Work upon Minister and Convert (S1774) 2025-11-14
Here is another sermon in which you detect notes of what today might be called ‘pastoral theology.’ Spurgeon could preach to preachers, certainly,…
Putting the Hand upon the Head of the Sacrifice (S1771) 2025-11-07
This is a deliberately simple sermon. Spurgeon sets out to answer the prayer of the boy who asked, “Lord, grant that our minister may say something…
High Doctrine and Broad Doctrine (S1762) 2025-10-31
You might have thought that high doctrine and broad doctrine were contrasts, perhaps one good and the other bad, but in this sermon they are…
The Pastor’s Life Wrapped up with his People’s Steadfastness. A Pleading Reminder for the New Year (S1758) 2025-10-24
If you are a pastor-preacher, and your heart is where it should be, then this short sermon is likely to resonate with you. However, it may be that,…
Fathers in Christ (S1751) 2025-10-17
We have mentioned from time to time the sermonic runs which we find here and there in Spurgeon’s published sermons. This is the end of one such…
Spiritual Knowledge and its Practical Results (S1742) 2025-10-10
It has become sadly typical to suggest some kind of tension or even opposition between knowing and doing, as if a delight in doctrine somehow chills…
On Humbling Ourselves Before God (S1733) 2025-10-03
Spurgeon is as practical as he is doctrinal and experimental (he often insists on all these being properly represented in public ministry, either…
Accepted of the Great Father (S1731) 2025-09-26
Because of the manner of his preaching over time, it is not unusual to find Spurgeon creating his own connections, contrasts, and counterpoints. You…
Christ in You (S1720) 2025-09-19
There is little which excites and delights Spurgeon as much as the preaching of Christ. Christ is not the icing on the cake of his ministry, but its…
The Marvelous Magnet (S1717) 2025-09-12
This is one of the sermons preached “on an evening when the regular hearers left their seats to be occupied by strangers.” Imagine asking some five…
Herein is Love (S1707) 2025-09-05
There are no themes sweeter than the love of God toward us in Christ Jesus our Lord, and there are few themes upon which Spurgeon is more happy and…
Gladness for Sadness (S1701) 2025-08-29
With a wonderful pastoral sensitivity, Spurgeon preaches a sermon to a congregation which has recently lost two esteemed, elderly deacons. Without…
Without Carefulness (S1692) 2025-08-22
“A delicious carelessness of holy confidence.” That is the beautiful phrase which Spurgeon uses to describe the state he encourages in this sermon.…
The Law Written on the Heart (S1687) 2025-08-15
What is your attitude to the law of God? Spurgeon’s is typically Particular Baptist, typically Puritan, with a strong emphasis on the blessings of…
Ask and Have (S1682) 2025-08-08
The challenges, rebukes, and encouragements of this sermon all carry their proper weight. Preaching from James 4:2–3, Spurgeon first exposes the…
Brought Up from the Horrible Pit (S1674) 2025-08-01
It is very easy—perhaps too easy—for us to accommodate the language of the psalms to ourselves, as if we were the primary reference point. Spurgeon…
The Exceeding Riches of Grace (S1665) 2025-07-25
Sometimes you get a sense of the preacher’s excitement from the very first sentence of his sermon. It is the case here, as Spurgeon bubbles over…
A Feast for the Upright (S1659) 2025-07-18
Spurgeon says that this text overpowers him: “It is a gem of priceless value.” Even before he gets to the formal substance of his sermon, his…
The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus (S1653) 2025-07-11
This is a sermon full of life and strength preached by a man full of sickness and weakness. The introduction surveys all the key facts contained in…
A Home Question and a Right Answer (S1646) 2025-07-04
This sermon cuts deeply in order to probe carefully. It is Spurgeon in typically and painfully sober mode. The sermon puts to each hearer the…
Acceptable Service (S1639) 2025-06-27
In the aftermath of a particular effort on the part of the Tabernacle congregation, Spurgeon calls on the people to consider the spirit in which…
Two Good Things (S1629) 2025-06-20
This is a shorter sermon, preached on a Thursday evening, and in it Spurgeon contrasts and compares two texts, each speaking of something good. The…
Without Christ—Nothing (S1625) 2025-06-13
This sermon unfolds gradually but surely. We do not know exactly where the preacher will take us, but he is evidently following a planned route, and…
Love’s Labours (S1617) 2025-06-06
Love labours. In doing so, it overcomes a multitude of difficulties. It triumphs over those difficulties in a way which demonstrates the heavenly…
Faith: What is It? How can it be Obtained? (S1609) 2025-05-30
Though Spurgeon typically preaches from fairly brief texts, he occasionally takes longer sections, and sometimes—as on this occasion—hangs his…
What the Farm Labourers Can Do and what they Cannot Do (S1603) 2025-05-23
While Spurgeon usually preaches on single texts he does not invariably preach isolated sermons. On Sunday 5th June, 1881, he preached from 1…
The Substance of True Religion (S1598) 2025-05-16
Spurgeon regularly throws a little exegetical advice into his sermons, often at the beginning, and he does so here, encouraging his hearers to…
Holy Longings (S1586) 2025-05-09
A man’s heart-longings provide an accurate index of his present and future character. Put simply, “Tell me what a man really wants and I will tell…
The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy (S1582) 2025-05-02
How much is joy a feature of your life as a Christian? While he recognizes that the fruit of the Spirit is one cluster, nevertheless Spurgeon wants…
I Was Before (S1574) 2025-04-25
This is the last sermon in Volume 26 of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit . After a fairly extended introduction in which the preacher sets out to…
The Lamentations of Jesus (S1570) 2025-04-18
In this sermon Spurgeon seeks to plumb something of the depths of Christ’s grief over sin. (Interestingly, the following week, and the following…
Walking Humbly with God (S1557) 2025-04-11
This is one of those sermons which seems to bubble over in a torrent from the preacher’s soul. Rather than broadening out, it narrows down, perhaps…
The Glories of Forgiving Grace (S1555) 2025-04-04
This very sweet sermon takes a seminal declaration of gracious forgiveness as the starting point of a very simple treatment of this central theme.…
John and Herod (S1548) 2025-03-28
A typically probing sermon from Spurgeon, who is as tenacious in calling for self-examination as he is earnest in pleading the cause of Jesus…
The Mediator—Judge and Saviour (S1540) 2025-03-21
Here Spurgeon considers two offices of Christ, those of Judge and Saviour, as they are found in him as Mediator. Both, he suggests, have reference…
On Whose Side Are You? (S1531) 2025-03-14
This rallying-cry is drawn from Moses’ question to Israel when sin was rampant among the people, and the sermon is preached shortly after a general…
The Fair Portrait of a Saint (S1526) 2025-03-07
This sermon digs deep into our attitude to the Word of God. Sometimes Spurgeon draws lines from a text, at other times—as this one—he draws lines…
At School (S1519) 2025-02-28
“Teach me to do your will.” That may seem like a very simple and straightforward prayer, but what does it mean to pray it, and what kind of answer…
Cheer up, My Comrades (S1513) 2025-02-21
This sermon might be read as a follow-up to that on “The Dromedaries.” If the former sermon is intended to help us find our proper place, the…
The Dromedaries (S1504) 2025-02-14
This sermon has a curious title indeed, and a somewhat unusual text, too. As he delights to do, the preacher draws a parallel between the Old…
Lifting Up the Brazen Serpent (S1500) 2025-02-07
Spurgeon himself introduces this sermon with a few words of thanksgiving, and tells us, with characteristic desire, “I thought the best way in which…
Remember Lot’s Wife (S1491) 2025-01-31
This fascinating sermon begins with a contrast between Abraham and Lot, so much so that Spurgeon reminds us that his text is not, “Remember Lot,”…
The Present Crisis (S1483) 2025-01-24
This sermon carries a fearful amount of weight. Preached at a period when British interests were at a low ebb, British policy abroad seemed to…
The Middle Passage (S1474) 2025-01-17
Both sobering and cheering, this sermon carries us to the prophet Habakkuk, who saw all the dangers associated with ‘the midst of the years’ and the…
Prayer Perfumed with Praise (S1469) 2025-01-10
This delightful sermon blends the twin beauties of prayer and praise from Philippians 4:6—“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and…
The Seven Sneezes & Eyes Opened (S1461) 2025-01-03
The beginning of Volume XXV has curious numbering, reflecting the fact that Spurgeon is very sick in Mentone while these sermons are being produced…
Peace: A Fact and a Feeling (S1456) 2024-12-27
There is a state of peace and there is a sense of peace. Spurgeon does not confuse or confound the two. In a distinctly pastoral sermon, he begins…