Charles Spurgeon was a prolific and influential preacher in the 19th century known as the "Prince of Preachers." He preached over 600 times before age 20 and his collected sermons fill 63 volumes, equivalent to 27 volumes of the 9th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, making it the largest set of books by a single Christian author. Spurgeon faced difficulties like the tragic fire at his church that killed people and depression, as well as physical ailments like gout that caused him pain and missed sermons. However, he remained devoted to Scripture and Calvinist theology, loved children by founding orphanages, and sought to glorify God in both his words and deeds until his death in 1892.
Presentation about John Keats, the romantic poet and his six famous lyrical odes - Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy in particular and mentioning Ode To a nightingale, ode on a grecian urn, ode to pysche and ode on indolence
Presentation about John Keats, the romantic poet and his six famous lyrical odes - Ode to Autumn, Ode on Melancholy in particular and mentioning Ode To a nightingale, ode on a grecian urn, ode to pysche and ode on indolence
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Langston Hughes
Salvation
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent his high school
years in Cleveland, Ohio. Later, he studied engineering at Columbia University, in New
York City, but he eventually dropped out, soon becoming a central figure in the Harlem
Renaissance, a period of creative innovation by writers, artists, and musicians in the
African American section of New York. While he is primarily known as a poet, Hughes was
also a prolific writer of stories, plays, and essays.
In this excerpt from his autobiography, The Big Sea (1940), Hughes recounts a
childhood struggle to fulfill others’ expectations while remaining true to his own ideas
about being “saved.”
Guiding question Was Hughes saved, or not?
1 I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved. It
happened like this. There was a big revival at my Auntie Reed’s church. Every
night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing, praying, and shouting,
and some very hardened sinners had been brought to Christ, and the member-
ship of the church had grown by leaps and bounds. Then just before the revival
ended, they held a special meeting for children, “to bring the young lambs to the
fold.” My aunt spoke of it for days ahead. That night I was escorted to the front
row and placed on the mourners’ bench with all the other young sinners, who
had not yet been brought to Jesus.
2 My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something
happened to you inside! And Jesus came into your life! And God was with you
from then on! She said you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul. I
believed her. I had heard a great many old people say the same thing and it
seemed to me they ought to know. So I sat there calmly in the hot, crowded
church, waiting for Jesus to come to me.
3 The preacher preached a wonderful rhythmical sermon, all moans and
shouts and lonely cries and dire pictures of hell, and then he sang a song about
the ninety and nine safe in the fold, but one little lamb was left out in the cold.
Then he said: “Won’t you come? Won’t you come to Jesus? Young lambs, won’t
you come?” And he held out his arms to all us young sinners there on the mourn-
ers’ bench. And the little girls cried. And some of them jumped up and went to
Jesus right away. But most of us just sat there.
4 A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women
with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands. And the
church sang a song about the lower lights are burning, some poor sinners to be
saved. And the whole building rocked with prayer and song.
5 Still I kept waiting to see Jesus.
6 Finally all the young people had gone to the altar and were saved, but one boy
and me. He was a rounder’s1 son named Westley. Westley and I were surrounded
Pause Based on the
first paragraph, predict
what this essay will be
about.
1. rounder: a man with a
bad character
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What is death? What is life? Why is it true that we cannot truly live until we accept our mortality? How did the resurrection of Jesus Christ forever defeat death? Who is Jesus Christ and how was He able to accomplish what no other person in the history of man accomplished? What will happen to you when you die?
This is a full analysis/annotation from Robert Frost's Out, Out
I had to present it in class and got an A* for it. If you have to do it for class or so, please do not copy but simply use it as a help.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
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Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
3. Why Spurgeon? The New Park Street Pulpit and The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit—the collected sermons of Spurgeon during his ministry with that congregation fill 63 volumes. The sermons’ 20–25 million words are equivalent to the 27 volumes of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The series stands as the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity.
4. Why Spurgeon? Before he was 20, Spurgeon had preached over 600 times. Spurgeon typically read 6 books per week and could remember what he had read—and where—even years later. Spurgeon once addressed an audience of 23,654 without a microphone or any mechanical amplification.
5. His Life Born in 1834 Read The Pilgrim’s Progress at age six and went on to re-read it over 100 times. Died on January 31, 1892 and over 60,000 people came to pay their respects during three days.
6. His Difficulties Spurgeon’s Wife had serious physical problems later in life: On January 8, 1856 Spurgeon married Susannah Thompson.
7. His Difficulties After having two children, Susannah was unable to have more; when she was 33 years old she became a virtual invalid and seldom heard her husband preach for the next 27 years till his death. She carried on a ministry while bedridden.
8. On October 19, 1856 Spurgeon was to begin services in the Surrey Royal Gardens Music Hall. The Hall held 12,000 and had an additional 10,000 people overflowing into the gardens. The service was underway when, during Spurgeon’s prayer, several malicious miscreants shouted, “Fire! The galleries are giving way!” In the ensuing panic, seven people died and twenty-eight were hospitalized with serious injuries.
9. Spurgeon had to be carried from the pulpit and spent several days in deep depression. About the incident he said: “Perhaps never soul went so near the burning furnace of insanity, and yet came away unharmed.”
10. His Difficulties After the Music Hall incident Spurgeon suffered more frequently from serious depression. He speaks of this in the chapter “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” in Lectures to My Students. He says It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ”
11. His Difficulties Spurgeon suffered from terrible gout. This started in 1869 when he was 35 years old. He was seldom free from pain from 1871 until his death and missed many Sundays in the Pulpit because he was unable to stand. During the last years he said: “suffered the loss of friendships and reputation, and the infliction of pecuniary withdrawments and bitter reproach.… But the pain it has cost me none can measure.”
12. His Ministry He loved the Scriptures: He was a believer that the Bible was without error “This is the book untainted by any error; but it is pure unalloyed, perfect truth. Why? Because God wrote it” Spurgeon founded a pastor’s school which is still in existence today
13. His Ministry He loved Calvinism: "To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things. I look at everything through its relation to God's glory. I see God first, and man far down in the list ... Brethren, if we live in sympathy with God, we delight to hear Him say, 'I am God, and there is none else'"
14. His Ministry He loved children Spurgeon founded orphanages: By the end of 1867, four boys’ houses had been opened, followed during the 1880s by five houses for girls.
15. His Death “When our lives come to be written at last,” Spurgeon once wrote, “God grant that they be not only our sayings, but our sayings and doings.”
16. Recommended Works Lectures to My Students The Suffering Letters of C. H. Spurgeon C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography A. Dallimore- Spurgeon Christian History Magazine, 29 (Volume X, Number 1); The Life and Times of Charles Spurgeon