I’ve been reading this biography of Spurgeon (did you know he was the eldest of seventeen children?!?), and I find that one passage has stuck unyieldingly in my head [chapter 1]: C. H. Spurgeon had been announced to preach at Haverhill in Suffolk, and–an exceptional incident–he was late in arriving. So his grandfather began the service and, when the expected…
Category: Studying God
Bible books and music
It turns out that it’s really difficult to find good Bibles / Bible books / devotionals for toddlers, especially ones that are reformed! I just wanted to run through some of the ones we have found and are extremely happy with. Notably, most of these are by the same author/publisher, which I think is more a sad commentary on what…
Quotes from Spurgeon
This week I stumbled across an old, unattractively-bound book (online here) that I acquired in college while writing a research paper on corporal punishment in evangelicalism. At the time I didn’t know Charles Spurgeon from Charles Sheldon, and thus was not inspired to read the book except looking for quotes to use in my paper. But when I found it…