A Merry Christmas: A Sermon by CH Spurgeon

Delivered by Spurgeon on December 23, 1860, "A Merry Christmas" focuses on the joy and responsibility of Christian celebration. Spurgeon takes up Job 1:4-5 to illustrate a balanced approach to festivity, highlighting the importance of family unity, gratitude, and moderation. He encourages believers to enjoy celebrations while remaining mindful of potential excess and ingratitude. In this sermon, Spurgeon also stresses the need for spiritual reflection and the acknowledgment of Christ's sacrifice during festive times, urging families to sanctify their gatherings with prayer and thanksgiving. For more on CH Spurgeon, visit https://www.CHSpurgeon.com — SELECT QUOTES — "God forbid I should be such a Puritan as to proclaim the annihilation of any day of rest which falls to the lot of the laboring man. I wish there were a half-a-dozen holidays in the year." "If there be a man here who falls into drunkenness, in God’s name, let him tremble, for there is no admittance for the drunkard into the kingdom of heaven." "Let us so act, that if Christ were at the feast, we should not be ashamed to see him; let us so speak that if Christ sat at our table, we should not count it a hindrance to our joy, but rather that we should be the more free, joyous, and glad, because of such thrice-blessed company." "Ah! Parents, never forget any of your children; carry them all before God; let them all be consecrated to him, and let your earnest prayer go up for them all." "I believe that the Christian ministry has to do with you in your daily life, and the more the preacher delivers that which is practically suggestive of profit to our souls, the more closely does he keep to the Master." — ADDITIONAL RESOURCES — ✉️ Subscribe to CHSpurgeon.com for timeless Spurgeon sermons delivered with the dynamic of live preaching: https://www.chspurgeon.com/subscribe/ 🔗 Visit CHSpurgeon.com for more resources from and about the Prince of Preachers: https://www.chspurgeon.com/ 🎧Purchase multi-sermon volumes of MP3 Spurgeon sermons: https://www.chspurgeon.com/store/ 📖 Purchase Spurgeon: A Biography by Arnold Dallimore: https://amzn.to/3WyuVa4 — About Sermons from CHSpurgeon.com — There are no existing recordings of CH Spurgeon preaching. These unabridged sermon recordings are delivered with the dynamic of live preaching are perhaps the next best thing to hearing the Prince of Preachers himself.