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Spurgeon Saturday - My New Book

New Spurgeon Devotional for Easter

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J. A. Medders, PhD
Jan 11, 2025
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For this edition of Spurgeon Saturday, I’m thrilled to let y’all know that my new Spurgeon book is now available:

The Risen King: 40 Devotions for Easter with C. H. Spurgeon

The genesis for this book started back in 2022. I wanted to read a Spurgeon devotional for Christmas, but there really wasn’t one. I sat at my desk and thought, “Why don’t I make one?” And then I wondered if an Easter devotional from Spurgeon was available. Negative. So, I contacted my agent, who agreed this needed to be done. We talked to publishers, signed the contract in 2023, and The Risen King is now here. (The Newborn King will be released in 2026 for Advent.)

Y’all will love this book—because it’s 99% Spurgeon. I wrote prayers and reflection questions and did some light editing, but this is pure Spurgeon. His Morning and Evening devotionals tended to be condensed selections from his sermons, so I followed that same pattern. I compiled paragraphs and sentences from multiple sermons on either the same passage or…

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