The following is an excerpt of a sermon on Romans 9:22, preached by Marc Carpenter: Let me now quote from Charles Spurgeon’s sermon entitled “Jacob and Esau.” Some of this I’ve quoted before, but the end is new. Here it is: “Now, the next question is a different one: Why did God hate Esau? … [...]
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The following is a “guest-post” by Marc Carpenter: Did you know that Charles Spurgeon did not believe in biblical creationism? He, like God-hating Calvinist Thomas Chalmers before him, believed that there were “thousands of years” that went by in Genesis 1. He believed that there was death BEFORE sin. Don’t believe it? Here’s a direct [...]
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The following are my comments on things written by Dan Phillips and Charles Spurgeon. PyroManiacs: Setting the World on fire. `Is not My word like a fire?` says the LORD (Jeremiah 23:29). 01 September 2011 Spurgeon’s pastoral wisdom in dealing with a woman lacking assurance by Dan Phillips I am re-listening to an audio version [...]
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The following is a “guest post.” Some time ago Marc made some comments on Spurgeon’s sermon entitled, “Salvation by Knowing the Truth.” Spurgeon: “God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”–1 Timothy 2:3, 4. MAY GOD THE HOLY GHOST guide our meditations to [...]
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“The great Charles Haddon Spurgeon.” Idolized by many as one of the greatest preachers in the history of the world. Many hold this heretic in high esteem, and so we like good little iconoclasts find it quite invigorating to demolish the doltish statements of someone like Spurgeon, whose stupid reasoning vainly attempts to exalt itself [...]
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The following was written by Marc Carpenter: Spurgeon does such a great job in putting forth the position of conditional reprobation, I’ll just give you an extended quote from him, which is from his sermon on January 16, 1859, entitled “Jacob and Esau.” His text is Romans 9:13…Now I will go to what Spurgeon says [...]
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