How we use AI

Spurgeon’s Sermons exists for one reason: to bring C. H. Spurgeon’s preaching to as many people as possible, every day, free of charge. We use many tools to do that. Artificial intelligence is one of them.

We are not nervous about this. When the Pharisees told Jesus to rebuke His disciples for praising Him, the Lord replied:

He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Luke 19:40, ESV

AI runs on chips made of silicon, which is to say, ground-up rock. If God can make stones cry out, He can surely use them to help carry the Gospel.

Spurgeon felt the same about new methods:

If new methods of getting a hearing for the Gospel are invented by the ingenuity of earnestness, let the brethren use them.

C. H. Spurgeon, “Farm Laborers,” Sermon No. 1602, 5 June 1881

He also knew that tools, on their own, achieve nothing:

Let the net be never so broad, never so strong, and let it be never so industriously cast into the sea, yet we shall toil all the night and take nothing unless the Master comes to own the work.

C. H. Spurgeon, “The Two Draughts of Fishes,” Sermon No. 443, 6 April 1862

Our promises to you

We strive to be truthful in everything we publish. We don’t label every use of AI, any more than we label every use of a spell-checker. But we never claim human authorship where none exists.

If something carries a human byline, a human either wrote it or has read it and taken responsibility for it.

Spurgeon’s own words are always presented exactly as they were printed. AI may help us prepare study guides, devotionals and the weekly email digest, but it never puts words in Spurgeon’s mouth. Every quotation is checked against the source.

Images made with AI are stylised illustrations. We never present them as real photographs or as genuine portraits.

We cast the net as carefully as we can. The catch belongs to the Lord.