Lectures to My Students

By Charles Spurgeon

Lectures to My Students is a classic book by the classic preacher, Charles Spurgeon.  Written in the late nineteenth century, it is somewhat dated now.  Some chapters are of little use, such as his two chapters on open air preaching and three or four chapters on illustrations.  However, there is gold in those hills!  Spurgeon was so godly, so close to Christ, so brilliant, so good with words that from time-to-time there are classic gems.

The book is mostly on preaching as opposed to pastoring in general, though it does include pastoring.  I read this as a young preacher and now listened to it in my older years.  It is worth going through once by every devoted preacher.