Preface

1. Behold!
2. The Beloved Son
3. Tempted in the Wilderness
4. Repentance Is Never Out of Fashion
5. Christ Lifted Up
6. For God So Loved
7. True Holy Water
8. Joining Christ’s Mission
9. The Lord’s Prayer
10. Hear and Do
11. Forgiveness First
12. The Miracle of Conversion
13. A Friend of Sinners
14. The Heart of Jesus
15. Jesus Feeds the Crowds
16. Jesus Walks on Water
17. Peter’s Short Prayer
18. Sit at Jesus’ Feet
19. The Good Shepherd
20. Only Jesus
21. Bring It to Jesus
22. Christ, Greater Than Solomon
23. The Cost of Discipleship
24. The Prodigal Son
25. To Seek and Save the Lost
26. Face Like Flint
27. Jesus Rides into Jerusalem
28. Jerusalem, Jerusalem
29. Anointed and Adored
30. Jesus Washes Feet
31. Jesus Prays for Us
32. Remember Christ
33. Great Drops of Blood
34. Christ Arrested
35. Peter’s Denials
36. Christ Mocked
37. The Thief on the Cross
38. It Is Finished!
39. Christ and Sin Buried
40. He Is Risen!

• Appendix

Alistair Begg

Bible Teacher, Truth For Life; Senior Pastor, Parkside Church, Cleveland; Author, Pray Big and A Christian Manifesto

This devotional is really, really good. Just when I thought I knew all of Spurgeon’s gems, J.A. Medders has gone to the treasure chest and brought out some more. Read this to enjoy C.H. Spurgeon at his very best and to fix your eyes on Jesus.

Robert Smith JrCharles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

In Jeff Medders’ The Risen King, we have the opportunity to taste Charles Spurgeon’s writings as renewed wine in new wineskins. These fresh devotionals have a high trinitarian focus and enable us to worship God in Spirit and truth while clearly pointing to Jesus, our Redeemer. Medders masterfully regenerates Spurgeon’s voice with a tone refreshingly asserting that Spurgeon still speaks to us today.

Mary MohlerAuthor, Growing in Gratitude

The Risen King is an incredibly edifying devotional whether read during the Easter season or any other time. Jeff Medders has done a masterful job of extracting jewels of gospel saturated, thought provoking and poignantly clear doctrine from the enormous collection of Charles Spurgeon’s sermons. What a joy to be reminded in such sweet, rich and heartfelt admonitions from the well-named Prince of Preachers how our daily lives must be overflowing with sheer gratitude for the matchless work of Christ. I am already looking forward to the companion volume, The Newborn King.

Joel R. BeekePresident, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; Pastor, Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids, MI

Charles Spurgeon is without question one of my favorite preachers of all time: profoundly Christ-centered, warmly experiential, and delightfully practical. Seldom is my soul not deeply stirred after reading and pondering one of his sermons. Of the nearly 4,000 sermons that Spurgeon preached in his lifetime, Jeff Medders has adapted 75 of Spurgeon’s choice messages on the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus into 40 savory devotionals, each of which ends with heart-searching, reflective questions and prayers which foster meditation, application, and doxology. The selections in this volume are not only ideal for preparation in the season before Easter but are applicable for every part of the year as well. I am confident that after reading this devotional, you will want more of Spurgeon—and above all, more of the Christ whom this ‘prince of preachers’ so beautifully proclaimed.

Adam RamseyLead Pastor, Liberti Church, Gold Coast, Australia; Network Director, Acts 29 Australia & New Zealand

Few voices over the past 2,000 years have been more used by God to stir people’s hearts with a greater love for Jesus than that of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. In this wonderful Easter devotional, Medders has compiled some of the best of Spurgeon’s words, skilfully guiding us through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Here in The Risen King, you will find daily devotions that are brief yet rich with biblical insight; a perfect supplement to a morning Bible-reading schedule. I highly recommend this book, and I am confident that everyone who reads it will come away more amazed at the glory and goodness and grace of God.