Evangelicals love great preaching and preachers. If a list was developed to include the best preachers, the name Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), without any doubt, would appear. Many are quick to celebrate the life and ministry of the 19th-century Baptist preacher in London, and rightly so. In many ways, Spurgeon modeled core commitments of evangelical thought and practice. He was undeniably a multifaceted leader. From pastoring a megachurch to overseeing an orphanage to establishing a college, he carried a large number of responsibilities. And yet, he’s most often remembered as the “prince of preachers.”
But what drove his preaching? What shaped his study of Scripture? In his recent book,