Jordan Crane

Dec 25, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Jordan Crane

Spurgeon helps us navigate the Christmas holiday, whether we choose to participate in the festivities or not, by encouraging us that there are various reasons to gather on this day outside of tradition or superstition. To most modern Western Christians, it might be a surprise to discover that Spurgeon did not celebrate Christmas with the lights, bells, wreaths, and festivities that many of us enjoy today.

Nov 7, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Geoff Chang |Jordan Crane

Spurgeon would not name names was because he did not want to make this fight about himself. The encroaching downgrade and modernist theologies were not an offense against Spurgeon personally. Rather, they were an offense against God. Spurgeon was “extremely anxious to avoid personalities,” because he had no desire to make the controversy about himself, as if he had taken personal offense against anyone in particular. In early 1887, C. H.