Crossway Short Classics (3-Volume Bundle)

“Hardly anyone outside of Scripture speaks to me like Charles Spurgeon does. God's words, as Spurgeon well knew, are far more valuable than anyone else's. In the face of great criticism, Spurgeon took great pains to conform his preaching and writing to Scripture. We need to hear Spurgeon's voice because he was faithful to speak God's word, and today there aren't nearly enough voices like his. Spurgeon also serves as a reminder that people of great trust in God can nonetheless be brought low in depression. While that thought may be, well, depressing to those who haven't experienced depression, it is liberating to those of us who have.”

“Chalmers could do biblical exposition. But he was a scientist and a philosopher, as well as a preacher of biblical texts. His apologetical contribution, which made him so popular in his day, was to show that biblical morality is rooted not just in religious authority, but in the profound realities of the way things really are in the world...He appeals to what ordinary unbelievers can actually see about the way their heart works. By the time you are done reading [Chalmers] will shed so much light on the workings of your own heart.”

“If you find yourself struggling to endure, on the verge of emotional collapse, fearful that the future holds only decay and death, immerse yourself in the exalted and thoroughly biblical perspective that Jonathan Edwards brings to this living hope (1 Pet. 1:3). You may well find yourself to be more earthly good precisely by being ever more heavenly minded.”