MichaelSnow

Any who use his daily devotional book "Morning and Evening" (whether in print or online which can be found several places including here) Or belong to social media Spurgeon groups? I have used several different devotions over the years. The first book I bought was Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest" Love that title. There are others from CS Lewis, JI Packer etc. All these are edited works by another, picking out passages from broader works, sometimes devoid of context. Chambers book is such a work. His ministry was to full time Christian workers. Spurgeon, on the other hand, wrote each of these devotions each day over the course of a year with a pastor's heart and with his reader in mind. On the topic of Spurgeon's clear words on Christians and war, here is a question I posed at the Spurgeon Library Conference

Would a true Christian eliminate Christ from the whole of the calendar and time and use the pagan designation of BCE? Before the Common Era, thus eliminating Anno Domini, the Year of our Lord???

Most Americans have blindly followed the propaganda about this war and have no clue about the root causes.

The Great Commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our mind. And way too many American Christians follow the god of this world in all the propaganda the Big Brother feeds them. BASICS on the war. It began in 2014 with USA backed coup of the democratically elected government in Kiev. Root cause: Prof Mearsheimer et al. "The West is principally responsible " for this war. Here is short timeline with links to fuller information Blessed Are the Peacemakers

You are on the edge of heresy. Yes, we have a dying body and are damned without Christ. But only heretics claim we are not created in the image of God.

Some good links on the BASIC causes of the war have been coming out: RFK jr, Jeffrey Sachs, Chomsky, ... Too many folks still following Big Brother's propaganda. I put up this short piece on basic causes with some key links to longer timeline, etc. https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/ukraine-war-blessed-are-the-peacemakers/

Yesterday report a hundred Christians killed .........well don't see any option to post photo of the statement.

Really noteworthy that in a Christian forum for "Bible Study" that stats show not one person has any interest in Jesus' parables.

Christ Our Peace, Charles Spurgeon https://spurgeonwarquotes.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/christ-our-peace-2/

Typical of the memory verse theology, what-this-verse-means-to-me world, stats show that not one person has even looked at the page on Jesus' parables. No interest. https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/of-ponds-and-pitfalls/

I have, as no one cares to address the topic.

Simply short hand for Christian, X being the first letter of Christos.

Or insulting.

Which has nothing to do with the question put in the post, except this: we wait patiently for that final day, walking in the light of His word. This is the eschatalogical battle of the End. It is the conclusion of what Scripture says in Romans: Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;...' https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/armageddon-and-the-book-of-revelation/ Too many X'ns use Holy Scripture to excuse unfaithfulness to God's word.

The question pertained to the parallel between American Christian slaveholders who burned Spurgeon's sermons in protest to his stand against slavery, and today's American evangelicals hiding from Spurgeon's clear stand against Christians shedding blood in war. Both, had then, and have now, no ears to hear words that confront their besetting sin. “We are up to the hilt advocates for peace, and we earnestly war against war. I wish that Christian men would insist more and more on the unrighteousness of war, believing that Christianity means no sword, no cannon, no bloodshed, and that, if a nation is driven to fight in its own defence, Christianity stands by to weep and to intervene as soon as possible, and not to join in the cruel shouts which celebrate an enemy’s slaughter. . . . Today, then, my brethren, I beg you to join with me in seeking renewal.” From An All-Round Ministry, (Charles Spurgeon’s Annual Conference Addresses at the Pastors College), “A New Departure.” [SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Spring 1880]