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The Spurgeon Underground · 5M ago

Mary’s Song

by Steve Owen Read Luke 1:46-55 There seem to be two views of the 21st Century Christmas. The first owes something to Charles Dickens and Bing Crosby: “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” It is the Christmas of jollity and plenty. “So here it is, Merry Christmas! Everybody’s having fun.” It is a ti
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The Spurgeon Underground · 5M ago

What’s It All About?

By Lance Johnson Even by my calendar the Christmas season is here. I realize that my calendar for such things runs a bit later than for many others, particularly our nation’s retailers and shoppers, but now that we are more than a week into December I will concede that the Christmas season has begun
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Mega Church. Simple Church. Emergent Church. None. – The Sequel

by Lance Johnson When I wrote the earlier article on the subject of the church I did not intend to make this a series. It was just something I put together at the request of one of my church members. However, it seems the topic has taken on a life of its own, and another [...]
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Mega Church. Simple Church. Emergent Church. None. – The Sequel

by Lance Johnson When I wrote the earlier article on the subject of the church I did not intend to make this a series. It was just something I put together at the request of one of my church members. However, it seems the topic has taken on a life of its own, and another [...]
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Christ Dwelling in the Heart by Faith

by Steve Owen Taken from a sermon first preached at Scott Drive Church, Exmouth. Read Ephesians 3:14-21. As I go about preaching in many of the smaller Reformed churches in South-west England, I am often struck by a certain moroseness and apparent lack of joy among the congregations. It is of course
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Mega Church. Simple Church. Emergent Church. None.

by Lance Johnson There is seemingly no end to the debate about what the church should be. There are arguments for and against mega churches, simple churches, emergent churches, conservative churches, contemporary churches, traditional churches, house churches, and almost every other variation the si
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

The Church and the Texas Justice System

By Lance Johnson Recently, two great social institutions have come under fire for having lost their integrity. Those institutions are the Church and our Texas judicial system. It seems there is something in the news at least once a month about a church leader who has been involved in some scandal, u
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Break Up Your Fallow Ground

By Steve Owen Jeremiah 4:3-4. ‘For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart.”’ Hosea 10:12. “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

Faith & Assurance

By Phillip M. Way These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. – 1 John 5:13 Hebrews 11:1 tells us that “faith [...]
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The Spurgeon Underground · 1Y ago

A New Year’s Benediction

By Charles H. Spurgeon Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 1st, 1860, at Exeter Hall, Strand. “But the God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”—1 Peter 5:10. THE APOSTLE PETE
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