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Watch Douglas Whitley as Spurgeon: The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London is one of the most influential Baptist churches in the history of English Nonconformity. Closely associated with the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, it became a center of evangelical preaching in the nineteenth century and remains an active congregation today. The origins of the Metropolitan Tabernacle trace back to Read more...
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Behind me is Westminster Abbey, and of course, as you know, it has a tremendous history here in England. It’s a graveyard for about a thousand people, and 2,000 others are memorialized here. But someone buried in the Abbey and his burial there caused controversy, was Charles Darwin, who was born in 1809. He’s the one who wrote The Origin Read more...
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John Newton was the pastor here from 1780-1807. William Wilberforce was part of the congregation during that time. Even though he was originally buried here, around 1900 the City & South London Railroad was going to demolish the church for an Underground (subway) stop. The church remained due to public outcry, but the vault/crypt/cemetery was removed, and Newton’s body was Read more...