We are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 43.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the most famous British pastor at the end of the 19th century. At its peak Spurgeon's church exceeded 5,000 regular attenders, and hundreds of thousands read his sermons weekly. Yet, the distinction of his preaching was that he spoke the...
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