1. To exalt and glorify the one true and living God, the Sovereign, Holy, Triune God Who reveals Himself in all of creation (Psalm 19:1-6; Romans 1:19-20), in the Holy Scriptures, His verbally-inspired Word, and pre-eminently in the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. To exalt and magnify the Person and Work of the crucified, buried, risen, glorified, and soon returning Lord Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Triune God manifest in the flesh, as the only Saviourand the only hopefor lost, guilty, Hell-deserving sinners.
3. To be a means by which God might be pleased to call men and women to repentance toward God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, according to Acts 17:30-31 and Acts 20:21.
4. To set forth without apology the Doctrines of God's Sovereign Grace, commonly known as The Five Points of Calvinism, and identified by the familiar acronym, TULIP:
(Click on each of the above points to read a Sermon by Charles Spurgeon on that subjectthen read Spurgeon's A Defence of Calvinism.)
(Most of Spurgeon's messages on this Website are courtesy of The Spurgeon Archive)
5. To humble the pride of fallen man, that no flesh should glory in His presence, and that, according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord (1 Corinthians 1:29,31).