To read Spurgeon’s sermons is to hear and see, as Piper once said, “a bee buzzing around one tree: the cross of Christ.”

In a lecture to his pastoral students entitled “Sermons Likely to Win Souls” Spurgeon said, “People have often asked me, ‘What is the secret of your success?” He answered,

I have no other secret but this, that I have preached the gospel, – not about the gospel, but the gospel – the full, free, glorious gospel of the living Christ who is the incarnation of the good news. Preach Jesus Christ, brethren, always and everywhere; and every time you preach be sure to have much of Jesus Christ in every sermon.

May it be so in pulpits all across the land this day.