tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post6138615799654002078..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Preach PlainlyPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-88597877726308840072007-09-10T16:44:00.000-07:002007-09-10T16:44:00.000-07:00excellent post- thanks!@Mark: Christ and Him cruci...excellent post- thanks!<BR/><BR/>@Mark: Christ and Him crucified IS Him simplified. Uncomprehensible perhaps but simple. Spurgeon had it right and so did Peter!Anita and Bruce Hensleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16203639272547726095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-59110286976149632412007-09-10T10:46:00.000-07:002007-09-10T10:46:00.000-07:00Perhaps a larger problem in our day is not the com...Perhaps a larger problem in our day is not the complication of the sermon, but the dumbing down of the Gospel in preaching, and even modern Bible translations. This is the equivalent of trying to make the pearls <I>tasty</I> to the swine.<BR/><BR/>"Christ and Him crucified" - but we must stop far short of trying for "Christ and Him simplified".Mark B. Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15942591774072214556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-25749367783087383252007-09-10T05:42:00.000-07:002007-09-10T05:42:00.000-07:00I tried to comment on this yesterday and it crashe...I tried to comment on this yesterday and it crashed my browser. :-( <BR/><BR/>In any event, these weekly Spurgeon posts are something I look forward to and I'm glad you put them up. This one in particular you could repost once a week for a year, and it would still remain timely - especially that last paragraph.<BR/><BR/>Good stuff! Thank you, once again.Carla Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395062089776262435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-87036529635147838002007-09-09T22:04:00.000-07:002007-09-09T22:04:00.000-07:00Spurgeon had twin boys. Did they become preachers ...Spurgeon had twin boys. Did they become preachers as well? Any knowledge of his direct descendants?philnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393311811604119321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-88505656382031207162007-09-09T14:00:00.000-07:002007-09-09T14:00:00.000-07:00How prescient a sermon, and how excellent a summar...How prescient a sermon, and how excellent a summary of the Gospel.<BR/><BR/>I like Robert's "Feed my giraffes" line. Giraffes and gorillas...Spurgeon sure had a thing for animal imagery! (I've read that he had a stuffed gorilla with him when he preached on creation, versus the newly promulgated theory of evolution.)Stefan Ewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530690016594029847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-76194638337685765682007-09-09T10:21:00.000-07:002007-09-09T10:21:00.000-07:00I like most of what is on your blog, this is just...I like most of what is on your blog, this is just what I needed to hear. Thanks.Keith Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05359535573851703059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-75567935995968570542007-09-09T04:47:00.000-07:002007-09-09T04:47:00.000-07:00I don't like most of what is on your blog, but thi...I don't like most of what is on your blog, but this is just what I needed to hear. Thanks.Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08284171572883616668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-50430117921658634252007-09-08T21:12:00.000-07:002007-09-08T21:12:00.000-07:00"Spurgeon liked Simeon, so this was not a criticis..."Spurgeon liked Simeon, so this was not a criticism"<BR/><BR/>Thanks for explaining this.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-56512353123712547322007-09-08T19:28:00.000-07:002007-09-08T19:28:00.000-07:00C H Spurgeon Said:When you get the Spirit of God t...C H Spurgeon Said:<BR/><BR/>When you get the Spirit of God to come upon you like fire and like a rushing mighty wind it will not be to make you doctors of divinity, and scholars, and great elocutionists; it will only be just for this, to make you preach Christ, and preach him more simply than ever you did before.<BR/><BR/>Thanks Phil for this reminder! This is truly what the Church needs in this desperate day in which we live. <BR/><BR/>I am reminded of this scripture: <BR/><BR/>Acts 4:13 - Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.Patrick Eakshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08212734790604941080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-86955610307975341692007-09-08T18:44:00.000-07:002007-09-08T18:44:00.000-07:00"A sheep must be fed on the ground.""We must preac..."A sheep must be fed on the ground."<BR/>"We must preach according to the capacity of our hearers. The Lord Jesus did not say 'Feed my giraffes,' but 'feed my sheep.' We must not put the fodder on a high rack by our fine language, but use great plainness of speech" (Spurgeon, Salt Cellars vol. I).Robert N. Landrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150236985038443882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-49595672997946322752007-09-08T17:32:00.000-07:002007-09-08T17:32:00.000-07:00Spurgeon liked Simeon, so this was not a criticism...Spurgeon liked Simeon, so this was not a criticism, any more than the reference to enumerated points in the message (a practice of Spurgeon's) was meant to suggest that Spurgeon's own style was <I>wrong.</I> He was merely pointing out that the organized outlines of Simeon and the enumerated points of Spurgeon are by no means the only <I>right</I> sermonic forms, else Peter's Pentecost sermon would be disqualified as a good sermon, and that would be ludicrous.<BR/><BR/>Spurgeon's point, simply, is that clarity is infinitely more important than form.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-50483114548600593862007-09-08T15:56:00.000-07:002007-09-08T15:56:00.000-07:00" .. may the Spirit of God be poured out to teach ..." .. may the Spirit of God be poured out to teach our ministers to preach plainly"<BR/><BR/>Amen to that prayer.<BR/><BR/>One question. What is CH saying about "Charles Simeon in his "Skeleton Sermons""?donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.com