Prayer To Be Like Christ

Epaphras Prays Podcast · Aug 21, 2025 · 10m

Many are blessed to have once heard the sermons in person from C. H. Spurgeon, saying it was memorable to listen when he preached. In the Introduction to a collection of Pulpit Prayers, Dinsdale Young writes, “It was often even more memorable to hear him pray.”

Spurgeon was renowned not only for his powerful preaching, but also for the depth and passion of his public prayers. Spurgeon, says Young, lived and moved in the spiritual world, so his prayers were the natural effusion of a consecrated personality, not mere literary preparation.

Young emphasizes the biblical nature of Spurgeon's…