Charles Spurgeon
Since the first century, the church has discussed the finer points of theology, the trinity, the perseverance of saints, baptism, and the like. Predestination is one such topic, a source of many debates in the Christian community. I am not writing for or against some of the issues bought out by this biblical concept but […]
Charles Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, to a family of clerics. His father and grandfather were Nonconformist ministers (meaning they weren’t Anglicans), and Spurgeon’s earliest memories were of looking at the pictures in Pilgrim’s Progress and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. His formal education was limited, even by nineteenth-century standards: he attended local schools for a few years […]
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