▶ DESCRIPTION "My college lectures are colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote, and often humorous they are purposely made so, to suit the occasion. At the end of the week I meet the students, and find them weary . . . and only in a condition to receive something which will attract and secure their attention, and fire their hearts." Though best remembered as the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, C. H. Spurgeon was also founder and president of the Pastors College in London. He supervised the training of over 800 students, presided at an annual conference for ministers, and, on Friday afternoons, delivered regular lectures on every aspect of pulpit ministry.
Featuring such gems as "The Ministers Fainting Fits" "Posture, Action, Gesture, etc." and "On the Choice of a Text," this unabridged edition of 28 of Spurgeons classroom discourses on homiletics overflows with practical wisdom, discerning wit, and sage advice. Covering the call, open-air preaching, ordinary conversations, using illustrations, and conduct outside the church, Spurgeons words are as rich and nourishing for pastors and students today as they were more than a century ago.
▶ CONTENTS 1. Introduction and Apology 2. The Minister’s Self-watch 3. The Call to the Ministry 4. The Preacher’s Private Prayer 5. Our Public Prayer 6. Sermons — their Matter 7. On the Choice of a Text 8. On Spiritualizing 9. On the Voice 10. Attention! 11. The Faculty of Impromptu Speech 12. The Minister’s Fainting Fits 13. The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation 14. To Workers with Slender Apparatus 15. Second Introduction 16. Illustrations in Preaching 17. Anecdotes from the Pulpit 18. The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations 19. Where can we find Anecdotes and Illustrations? 20. Cyclopaedias of Anecdotes and Illustrations 21. Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables 22. The Sciences as Sources of Illustration. ASTRONOMY 23. The Holy Spirit in connection with our Ministry 24. The necessity of Ministerial Progress 25. The need of Decision for the Truth 26. Open Air Preaching — a Sketch of its History 27. Open Air Preaching — Remarks thereon 28. Posture, Action, Gesture, etc. — Part I 29. Posture, Action, Gesture, etc. — Part II 30. Earnestness: its Marring and Maintenance 31. The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear 32. On Conversion as our Aim 33. Other Books
▶ DESCRIPTION
"My college lectures are colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote, and often humorous they are purposely made so, to suit the occasion. At the end of the week I meet the students, and find them weary . . . and only in a condition to receive something which will attract and secure their attention, and fire their hearts."
Though best remembered as the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, C. H. Spurgeon was also founder and president of the Pastors College in London. He supervised the training of over 800 students, presided at an annual conference for ministers, and, on Friday afternoons, delivered regular lectures on every aspect of pulpit ministry.
Featuring such gems as "The Ministers Fainting Fits" "Posture, Action, Gesture, etc." and "On the Choice of a Text," this unabridged edition of 28 of Spurgeons classroom discourses on homiletics overflows with practical wisdom, discerning wit, and sage advice. Covering the call, open-air preaching, ordinary conversations, using illustrations, and conduct outside the church, Spurgeons words are as rich and nourishing for pastors and students today as they were more than a century ago.
▶ CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Apology
2. The Minister’s Self-watch
3. The Call to the Ministry
4. The Preacher’s Private Prayer
5. Our Public Prayer
6. Sermons — their Matter
7. On the Choice of a Text
8. On Spiritualizing
9. On the Voice
10. Attention!
11. The Faculty of Impromptu Speech
12. The Minister’s Fainting Fits
13. The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation
14. To Workers with Slender Apparatus
15. Second Introduction
16. Illustrations in Preaching
17. Anecdotes from the Pulpit
18. The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations
19. Where can we find Anecdotes and Illustrations?
20. Cyclopaedias of Anecdotes and Illustrations
21. Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables
22. The Sciences as Sources of Illustration. ASTRONOMY
23. The Holy Spirit in connection with our Ministry
24. The necessity of Ministerial Progress
25. The need of Decision for the Truth
26. Open Air Preaching — a Sketch of its History
27. Open Air Preaching — Remarks thereon
28. Posture, Action, Gesture, etc. — Part I
29. Posture, Action, Gesture, etc. — Part II
30. Earnestness: its Marring and Maintenance
31. The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear
32. On Conversion as our Aim
33. Other Books