'We were nearly there when some figures blocked our way. I went cold all over. This was no chance encounter. They had planned this and waited for us. This was it.''Move out of the way Blackie' the skinhead said. 'We got business with your friend.' Star Smith has enough problems in life trying to keep her wacky family a secret. Then a black girl arrives on the scene.... With the racist attitudes of kids in her area Star knows that if she befriends Ebony she could lose more than her reputation.

"My college lectures are colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote, and often humorous; they are purposely made so, to suit the occasion. At the end of the week I meet the students, and find them weary . . . and only in a condition to receive something which will attract and secure their attention, and fire their hearts."

Though best remembered as the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, C. H. Spurgeon was also founder and president of the Pastor's College in London. He supervised the training of over 800 students, presided at an annual conference for ministers, and, on Friday afternoons, delivered regular lectures on every aspect of pulpit ministry.

Featuring such gems as "The Minister's Fainting Fits"; "Posture, Action, Gesture, etc."; and "On the Choice of a Text," this unabridged edition of 28 of Spurgeon's classroom discourses on homiletics overflows with practical wisdom, discerning wit, and sage advice. Covering the call, open-air preaching, ordinary conversations, using illustrations, and conduct outside the church, Spurgeon's words are as rich and nourishing for pastors and students today as they were more than a century ago.

CHAPTERS INCLUDE
- The Minister's Self-Watch
- Our Public Prayer
- On Spiritualizing
- The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear
- On Conversion as Our Aim
- The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

An excellent and useful gift for pastors and seminary students, church history enthusiasts, and even collectors and readers of classic Victorian literature.

A parallel New Testament commentary that includes the text of the King James Version and applicable portions from the sermons from Charles Spurgeon on each left-hand page, and excerpts from the writings of John Wesley and Matthew Henry on each right-hand page. Read the biblical text and glance across the page to get the interpretations and meditations of these giants of the faith.

The perfect book for those who are advancing in years. This Large Print Volume contains more than 100 contiributions (all quite brief) from dozens of godly authors including; AUGUSTINE, JOSEPH ADDISION, THOMAS ADAMS, J.W. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM BATES, RICHARD BAXTER, EDWARD BICKERSTETH, THOMAS BINNEY, HORATIOUS BONAR, CHARLES BRIDGES, THOMAS BROOKS, JOHN BUNYAN, GEORGE CHEEVER, CHRYSOSTOM, SAMUEL DAVIES, JOHN FLAVEL, JOHN GILL, THOMAS GUTHRIE, JOHN HALL, JAMES HAMILTON, ROBERT HAWKER, MATTHEW HENRY, PHILIP HENRY, JAMES HERVEY, JOHN HOWE, WILLIAM JAY, F.W. KRUMMACHER, ROBERT LEIGHTON, J.R. MACDUFF, HENRY MARTYN, R..M. M'CHEYNE, JOHN MILTON, HANNAH MORE, JOHN NEWTON, ELIZABETH PRENTISS, WILLIAM ROMAINE, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, RICHARD SIBBES, C.H. SPURGEON, JEREMY TAYLOR, A.M. TOPLADY, R.C. TRENCH, C.J. VAUGHN, ISAAC WATTS, CHARLES WESLEY, MRS. WESLEY, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, and MARY WINSLOW.

Farm Sermons are lessons learned from scripture dealing with the land. "Farmers are as plentiful as ever, and discourses, designed for them will find hearers if they deserve them. "It is fit that farmers should have sermons gathered out of their own occupation, for it is one which, above all others, abounds in holy teaching; and, as it would be ill for dwellers in the Indies to go from home for gold and spices, so would it be unwise to leave the field and the plough in search of instruction. He who dwells at Newcastle wastes time when he goes far for coals; he who lives by the labour of the field will be foolish if he neglects the teaching of nature for the most glittering philosophy. Some of the mightiest of prophets and preachers came from the plough, and surely that must be a good college which has furnished such able divines. As all the world is fed by the produce of the farm, so may all men's minds find food in meditating upon the ways of God in nature and providence, as seen by the husbandman. Hence we have sought LESSONS FROM THE ACRES."

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.