Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher. He is known as the “Prince of Preachers”. He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. Charles remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations.
Charles Hadden Spurgeon was born on June 19th, 1834 in Kelvedon, England. His conversion to Christianity came on January 6th, 1850, when he was 15 years old. When he was walking to a scheduled appointment on a cold winters day, a huge snow storm blew in, forcing young Charles in to a Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester. There God opened his heart to the salvation message.
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The following year the first of his sermons in the "New Park Street Pulpit" was published. Spurgeon's sermons were published in printed form every week. By the time of his death in 1892, he had preached nearly 3,600 sermons and published 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, illustrations and devotions. In 1856 he married his wife Susannah. She then gave birth to twins, Charles and Thomas, on September 20th. Towards the end of the year tragedy struck. While he was preaching, someone yelled “Fire!” Charles made it out but there were many deaths. He fought depression after that for many years. Even though he was very devastated, he continued to preach.
Charles's wife was often too sick to leave home to hear him preach. He also suffered bad health toward the end of his life, afflicted by a combination of rheumatism, gout, and Bright’s disease. He often recuperated at Menton, France, where he died on January 31st 1892. Charles Spurgeon was a great preacher. He helped many people and converted many to Christianity. He most defiantly deserves his title as the Prince of
O'Brien, Susan. 1986. “A Transatlantic Community of Saints: The Great Awakening and the First Evangelical Network, 1735-1755”. The American Historical Review 91 (4). [Oxford University Press, American Historical Association]: 811–32. doi:10.2307/1873323.
The thesis of this book is that George Whitefield (1714-1770) changed the nature of Christianity by promoting and conducting mass revivals that exploited the weaknesses of institutional Christianity.
was a preacher - known for his sermons like: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (God’s really mad and you’ll burn in hell forever)
Edwards’s grandfather, Reverend Solomon Stoddard, also greatly influenced him. Solomon was often referred to as the “Pope of the Connecticut Valley” . While Solomon was preaching in Northampton, Connecticut he helped liberalize church policy by broadening “the standards for full church membership to all adults who professed the doctrines of the church, submitted to its discipline, and promised to attempt to live morally” . These extended standards meant that almost, if not all members of the community could and wo...
not in very good shape. In 1884 both his wife and mother died. His wife died
...t and respiratory failure, he was suffering with cancer. He died aged 77. He was laid to rest in the only available plot in Plainfield - next to his mother Augusta Gein.
---. “An Answer to the First Part of an Anonymous Pamphlet, Entitled, Observations upon the Conduct and Behavior of a Certain Sect Usually Distinguished by the Name of Methodists. In a letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of London, an the Other the Right Reverend the Bishops concerned in the Publication thereof.” Rogers and Fowle, 1744.
Charles Porterfield Krauth was born in Martinsburg, Virginia on March 17th, 1823. He was the son of the well- known Lutheran pastor Dr. Charles Philip Krauth. Krauth graduated from Gettysburg College in 1839, and at the time his father was the college’s president and he also assisted on the theological faculty of Gettysburg’s Lutheran Theological Seminary. In 1841, he graduated and the following year in 1842 he was ordained. He then served as local pastor in the following places; Baltimore, Shenandoah Valley, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
At the young age of eighteen, King was named a Baptist minister and became assistant minister at his father’s church. After receiving his bachelors degree from Morehouse, King entered the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was one of six blacks in a student body of one hundred. King ...
I think everyone has wanted to be a Navy SEAL in one point of their life, but as they get older their dream of being the best of the best fades away. Marcus Luttrell has had that dream of being a SEAL since the age of seven, and his determination and will to survive the hardest training in military history, gave Luttrell the title of a Navy SEAL.
resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was interred next to his wife in
"This is the Hour of Decision with Billy Graham, coming to you from Minneapolis Minnesota" Billy Graham, has preached to more than 210 million people through a live audience, more than anyone else in history. Not only that, but Mr. Graham has reached millions more through live televison, video and film. This has led Billy to be on the "Ten Most Admired Men in the World" from the Gallup Poll since 1955 a total of thirty-nine times. This includes thirty-two consecutive more than any other individual in the world, placing him as the most popular American for about forty years. This essay is going to talk about Graham's personal life, and what kind of family he grew up in and im also going to talk in detail about how he became an evangelist, because I feel it is very important yet interesting. His accomplishments in the fifties are uncomparable, so I will be including a considerable amount of information concerning that topic. Finally I will be talking about his personal achievements, books written, and how he has been a companion to some of the American Presidents. William Franklin Graham Jr. was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. Graham was raised on a dairy farm by William Franklin (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and from aerobic walking, in the mountains of North Carolina, where he currently lives. (Billy Graham Best Sellers, 1999) Billy Graham told Time Magazine in one article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early in the morning and go milk cows. When I came back from school that day, I had to milk those same cows. There were about twenty cows I had to milk. By hand. That was before they had those machines. I loved being a farmer. But God called me to this work that I'm in now. I knew it was God calling. I said, "Yes. I will follow what God wants me to do." And so I went to two or three schools to get education.
Church. He is called a 'Doctor of the Church.' He was a theologian, and philosopher. A
... his life fully until the end, he had one last wish. He would like to die on Good Friday “in hopes of meeting his good God, his sweet Lord and Savior, on the day of his Resurrection.” However his wish did not get granted and he passed away on Good Saturday instead at age 74. Buried in Westminster Abbey, his funeral ended up well attended and people praised his accomplishments.
A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902–2007 by Ernest Nicholson 2004 pages 125–126