History
John Newton captained slave ships. A storm at sea in 1748 began his conversion, but he did not leave the trade immediately — a fact…
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History
Spurgeon’s Snowstorm Conversion
Charles Spurgeon’s own testimony
On a snowy Sunday in January 1850, fifteen-year-old Charles Spurgeon could not reach the church he usually attended. He ducked into a small Primitive Methodist chapel. The regular preacher was snowed in. A thin, uneducated shoemaker from the countryside stood up to speak. He read Isaiah 45:22 — “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth” — and then fixed his eyes on the miserable-looking teenager in the gallery. “Young man, you look very miserable… Look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothing to do but to look and live.” Spurgeon later said the burden fell from his shoulders in that moment. God used an unknown, poorly educated man and a simple text to save the man who would become one of the most influential preachers in history.
How you’d preach it
Beautiful picture of God’s providence and the power of a clear, simple call to look to Christ.
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Spurgeon · Isaiah 45
Isaiah 45:22