Tag Archives: Charles Spurgeon

Light from Darkness

Just over a week ago I had the pleasure of joining with a couple of other college students to spend an hour or so prayer walking in downtown Brainerd. Towards the end of our time we happened to run into a couple of foreign exchange students who attend CLC, the local college. Caleb, one our [...]

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If my heart was a house you’d be home

“Poor houseless soul, dost thou want a home? I have a house to let this morning for every sinner who feels his misery. Do you want a house for your soul? Then I will condescend to men of low estate and tell you in homely language that I have a house to let. Do you [...]

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My Confession (to my fellow Christians)

To be honest, I am tired of this “Christianity” that we live. As for me, my heart longs for something that is deeper, stronger, and more alive than what appears to be the common Christian life here in central Minnesota. I read the words and stories of men like Charles Wesley, David Livingstone, William Carey, [...]

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The Mercy Seat

I’ll to his gracious feet approach whose sceptre mercy give. Perhaps he may command me “Touch!: and then the suppliant lives. I can but perish if I go; I am resolved to try, for if I stay away, I know I must forever die. But, should I die with mercies sought when I the king [...]

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Galleon

O Zion, shake thyself from the dust! O Christian, raise thyself from thy slumbers! Warrior, put on thy armor! Soldier, grasp thy sword! The captain sounds the alarm of war. O sluggard! Why sleepest thou? O heir of heaven, has not Jesus done so much for thee that thou shouldst live to him? O beloved [...]

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