No account of Charles Spurgeon’s remarkable ministry can be complete without attention to his prayer life. Spurgeon himself was insistent on this point: the power that attended his preaching was not the product of his considerable natural gifts but of the intercession that undergirded them. This volume examines the theology and practice of prayer that made Spurgeon’s pulpit ministry what it was.
The book draws on Spurgeon’s own writings about prayer—including his addresses to his students at the Pastors’ College, his personal correspondence, and the prayers recorded in his published works—to trace the contours of a prayer life that was both theologically grounded and pastorally formed. Readers will encounter Spurgeon as a man of extraordinary faith who believed that everything worth accomplishing in ministry must be bathed in prayer.
For pastors, students of ministry, and anyone who has been shaped by Spurgeon’s preaching, this book offers both historical insight and practical challenge. The connection between the prayer room and the pulpit that Spurgeon embodied is one every preacher and Christian would do well to recover.
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