the Prince and Pulpit: Charles Haddon Spurgeon Gospel That Defined His Life

He never earned a degree. He never sought a crowd. Yet by nineteen, Charles Haddon Spurgeon was preaching to the largest congregations London had ever seen - and by the time he died, more of his sermons were in print than any preacher's in history.This is the story behind the Prince of Preachers: a boy converted in a snowstorm through a sermon he almost didn't hear, a young pastor who buried the dead through a cholera summer, a husband who watched his wife become an invalid while he battled gout, depression, and a controversy that cost him his denomination.Spurgeon built a college, an orphanage, and a movement - all while insisting that none of it mattered apart from the gospel he had first received as a frightened fifteen-year-old. He was sharp-tongued, stubborn, and sometimes wrong. He was also one of the most faithful witnesses to the grace of God the modern church has known.The Prince and the Pulpit tells his story honestly: the triumphs and the tragedies, the sermons and the suffering, the fame he never wanted and the Savior he never stopped preaching. Readers will finish this book knowing Spurgeon well - but thinking less about his greatness, and more about the greatness of the Christ he pointed them to.