This is a reading of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, preached in 1741 during the First Great Awakening.

Jonathan Edwards is often remembered for this sermon’s severity, yet his aim was not fear for its own sake. He believed that a right understanding of God’s holiness and wrath is necessary if grace is to be rightly understood. Where sin is minimized, redemption is diminished, and trust quietly shifts from Christ to self.

In Edwards’ theology, God’s wrath is not opposed to His mercy, but reveals the depth of it. Only when the danger is real does the refuge matter. This sermon confronts false security so that faith may rest where it belongs; not in morality, effort, or religious familiarity, but in Christ alone.

This reading is offered plainly, allowing the weight of the text to speak for itself.

In this final episode of All of Grace, Charles Spurgeon addresses why saving faith endures, and brings the book to a close.

Reading the final two sections together, Spurgeon grounds perseverance not in human resolve, but in the preserving faithfulness of God revealed in Scripture.

All of Grace begins with our need, moves through the sufficiency of Christ, and ends with assurance; that what God begins, He brings to completion.

Read from All of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon.

In this chapter, Charles Spurgeon speaks to believers who trust Christ, yet struggle with assurance.

Confirmation reminds us that grace does not prove itself through perfection, but through perseverance; and that our confidence remains not in the strength of our faith, but in the strength of Christ.

Read from All of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon.

This chapter speaks to those quiet fears we all have: the worry that somehow, somewhere, we might fall away for good.
Spurgeon points us back to where our confidence really belongs: not in our grip on Christ, but His grip on us.
Grace doesn’t fail, and true faith doesn’t die out because both come from God Himself.

It’s not emotion or effort that holds us... it’s truth.
And Scripture alone reminds us of that truth when fear starts whispering lies.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:28) ESV

Read from All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon

Narrated by Dakota Workman — The Pilgrim’s Library

In this episode of The Pilgrim’s Library, we read Chapter 16 of Charles Spurgeon’s All of Grace How Repentance Is Given.

Repentance is not a work we offer God to earn His favor. Scripture tells us in Acts 5:31 that Christ was exalted to give repentance and forgiveness of sins. True repentance is a gift from God’s Spirit: a softening of the heart, a turning away from sin, and a turning toward Christ. The Reformers reminded us that repentance and faith go hand in hand; repentance always follows faith and flows out of God’s kindness (Romans 2:4).

Join us as we reflect on how repentance is given by grace, not demanded by law, and how it remains a continual fruit of life in Christ.

Repentance and forgiveness cannot be separated. Where God forgives, He also calls us to turn from sin and look to Christ. In this episode, we reflect on the humility of ongoing repentance, not as proof of our own righteousness, but as evidence of God’s mercy at work. Forgiveness is never earned, and repentance is never perfect, but both flow from grace and point us back to the Savior who never fails.

In this chapter, Spurgeon takes up Job’s confession: “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”

Job spoke those words in the middle of suffering, with confidence that God Himself would vindicate him. Though he did not yet see Christ by name, the Spirit’s testimony in Job points forward to the risen Savior we now know.

Spurgeon reminds us that our hope is not in shifting feelings, but in a living Redeemer. Jesus Christ, fully God and fully Man; has died, risen, and ever lives to intercede for His people. Because He lives, we can face every trial with confidence, and know that He will raise us up on the last day.

In this episode of The Pilgrims Library, we combine chapters 12 and 13 of Charles Spurgeon’s All of Grace.

Spurgeon shows us how faith grows... not through our own effort, but by looking again and again to Christ. And he reminds us that regeneration, the new birth, is not something we stir up within ourselves. It is the Spirit’s work alone, bringing life to the dead heart.

Romans 5:1 assures us: “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” And Titus 3:5 confirms that salvation is “not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”

Together these chapters remind us: man is guilty of sin, but God justifies, God increases faith, and God gives new life.