Sermons on the Last Days

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A new collection of sermons preached by the nineteenth century's most beloved preachers Charles H. Spurgeon. Sermons on the Last Days features his sermons on the final judgment and Christ's return, covering everything from heaven and hell, reward and punishment, readiness, steadfastness, and watchfulness. Gently updated for the modern reader, Spurgeon's words are as rich and nourishing as they were more than a century ago.

382 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian, John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues, Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861, the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Reviews

[Alyssa Bohon]

A special book for me - and as good as it is, I'm happy to have finally finished it! I did end up listening to a number of the chapters/ sermons that I was able to look up on Sermonaudio.com, which helped me to get through them.

I bought and started reading this maybe 16 years ago, and found in it this time around an old church bulletin with pieces torn off. I had ripped out a piece to copy a quote to leave on my just-a-friend-now-husband's pew at church. (Idk, is that Reformed Baptist flirting?) Much later, he gave me a piece of framed art with the same quote on "nothing hiding from our hearts a single beam of the glorious sun of righteousness".

And the book - Spurgeon's sermons rarely ever followed a sequential exposition from one week to the next, so having his sermons organized around some topic other than chronological order is useful. The eternity/judgment/heaven/hell focus of these sermons is *tonic*.

Godly goosebumps is a term that comes to mind.

It's disturbing how easily we become, well, undisturbed by the eternal realities on which Christ calls us to focus our whole lives. I needed the reminders in this book.

"How terrible will be your doom unless you repent!
Ye sinners, seek his grace
Whose wrath you cannot bear;
Fly to the shelter of his cross,
And find salvation there."