Spurgeon Saturday - My New Book

New Spurgeon Devotional for Easter

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 theme to make each daily reading. I wove them together, smoothed things out, and wanted to capture his voice. This feels like a new book from Spurgeon.

You’ll read 40 short, daily readings through the Gospels, beginning with Christ’s ministry and taking you to the cross and resurrection. Each day has a passage of Scripture, Spurgeon’s insights, reflection questions, and a prayer.

You can read a sample of The Risen King here. It includes my intro and Days 1–3.

I hope it’s an encouragement as you prepare your heart for Easter. It will also be a nice way to introduce others to Spurgeon who won’t dive into his volumes of sermons.

Bulk orders for churches from the publisher, The Good Book Company.

Endorsements

• Alistair Begg: 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.

• Mary Mohler: 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 Beeke: 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.

• Patrick Schreiner: I always find myself encouraged and edified when I read Spurgeon. He rightly sees the whole Bible through single verses and skillfully combines exegesis, theology, and a pastoral heart. Medders has helpfully collected devotions from Spurgeon that lead us toward the climactic event in Jesus’ life—the resurrection. Read and be enraptured by Christ through one of Christ’s most gifted servants.

• Michael A. G. Haykin: The Christian past is ever a rich source of encouragement, instruction, challenge, and even rebuke for God’s people today. And this devotional from the works of the Victorian Baptist C.H. Spurgeon, is ample proof in this regard. The preaching of Spurgeon, like that of his Particular Baptist forebears, made much of the events surrounding Easter, in which the crucified and risen Lord was revealed as humanity’s one and only Savior. Pondering the selections in this devotional will surely help to deepen the reader’s understanding of this revelation as well as firing the heart and will to serve such a Lord of glory!

• Adam Ramsey: 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.

Here’s a fun unboxing video I made and posted on Instagram: