Charles Spurgeon - True Prayer, True Power

Charles Spurgeon was known as the prince of preachers. I read a book by him last year on preaching that was so good. Here this sermon is very challenging and helpful...
Here is a brief bio of him... Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861 the congregation moved permanently to the new Metropolitan Tabernacle.

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D.L. Moody - The Lord's Work

I went to a Moody Pastors conference last year and it was a great experience. Watching the ministry of Moody Bible College deep in the inner city of Chicago, recounting the life and minsitry of D.L. Moody and seeing the famous Moody Memorial Church was an inspiring time for me. I included his sermon on here as a challenge for us all to have courage in doing God's work. Here is a brief bio about this great man:The dying nineteenth century recorded the death of one of its greatest men. Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899), world-renowned worker for Christ, went to be with his Lord on December 22, 1899. From the life of this humble man rivers of living water had streamed out to bless America, Great Britain and the world.

Acclaimed by many as the leading platform evangelist of the century, famed as the founder of Christian institutions, prominent as a Sunday school and YMCA worker, D. L. Moody also held highest rating as a personal worker. He wrote no books on personal evangelism, but numerous references in the D. L. Moody literature prove that he was a practical and persistent personal evangelist and that he inspired many others to engage in this work. That he gave top priority to personal soul-winning as a Christian responsibility there can be no doubt.

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Dr. John G. Mitchell - Lessons from Peter

I went to Multnomah Bible College the last year Dr. Mitchell was alive. He taught our spiritual formations class and led each class with a hymn. An amazing man who I think must have known the entire Bible by memory. I took him for granted and wish I could have those days back. I found this on the Multnomah website and thought I would bless you with it.

This is what Multnomah wrote:
We are pleased to present this recently discovered recording of Dr. John Mitchell. It is the oldest known recording that we have of Multnomah's founder, originally captured on a wire spool recorder. Thanks to the durable nature of this medium, the sound quality of this class lecture is excellent!


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Hudson Taylor - Spiritual Secrets

Well, its not really a sermon, but in some ways it is more than a sermon. Listening to the biography of a missionary visionary like Taylor is inspiring, convicting and enlightening. Do yourself a favor and listen... In case you are not familiar with Taylor, this "sermon" is his book, his autobiograhy about his pionering years in China, his insight into contextualization and his passion for joy, his family and the people in China.

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A.W. Tozer - What difference does the Holy Spirit make?

A 20th-century prophet" they called him even in his lifetime. For 31 years he was pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, where his reputation as a man of God was citywide. Concurrently he became editor of Alliance Life, a responsibility he fulfilled until his death in 1963. His greatest legacy to the Christian world has been his 30 books. Because A.W. Tozer lived in the presence of God he saw clearly and he spoke as a prophet to the church. He sought for God's honor with the zeal of Elijah and mourned with Jeremiah at the apostasy of God's people. But he was not a prophet of despair. His writings are messages of concern. They expose the weaknesses of the church and denounce compromise. They warn and exhort. But they are messages of hope as well, for God is always there, ever faithful to restore and to fulfill His Word to those who hear and obey.

I went through a book with a discipleship group one time with his book "The Knowledge of the Holy." It changed my life. It was the first time where I began to understand the attributes of God and how that would affect my life. Every time I pray, every time I consider God, every time I preach, I really think that what I think and pray and do all come back to what was started by this book.

I found a bunch of classic sermons by this godly man and it was great. I am focusing this week on the Holy Spirit, so this sermon is very appropriate.

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Jonathan Edwards - Sinners in the hand of an angry God

I have a good friend who started a ministry with his college students a few years ago called, "DTS" or "Dead Theologian Society." The motto was "If they’re not dead, they don’t get read." meaning that they only read books from theologians and writers who were dead. Well, we are going to attempt something similar this week... Well, it doesn't have the same ring to it, but truly this week "they don't get heard unless they've transferred" (or how about: They don't get heard unless their death has occurred.) Either way, you get the picture... We are bringing back the classics and we are kicking it off with one of the most famous sermons ever preached. Now, not all of these sermons are from the original preacher, though some are. This one is read by Bruce Sonner.

Regarding Jonathan Edwards, he was born on October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut, into a Puritan evangelical household. His childhood education as well as his undergraduate years (1716-1720) and graduate studies (1721-1722) at Yale College immersed him not only in the most current thought coming out of Europe, such as British empiricism and continental rationalism, but also in the debates between the orthodox Calvinism of his Puritan forebears and the more "liberal" movements that challenged it, such as Deism, Socinianism, Arianism, and especially Anglican Arminianism.

Piper writes about Edwards, "Does any of us know what an incredible thing it is that this man, who was a small-town pastor for 23 years in a church of 600 people, a missionary to Indians for 7 years, who reared 11 faithful children, who worked without the help of electric light, or word-processors or quick correspondence, or even sufficient paper to write on, who lived only until he was 54, and who died with a library of 300 books – that this man led one of the greatest awakenings of modern times, wrote theological books that have ministered for 200 years and did more for the modern missionary movement than anyone of his generation?"

If you want to hear John Piper's sermon on Jonathan Edwards, click here!

If you want to hear the sermon "Sinners in the hand of an angry God" read, click here!