The second book in the "Finney and Spurgeon Face to Face" series is "The Sower and the Seed," where the messages of Charles G. Finney and Charles H. Spurgeon come face to face. Without question among Nineteenth Century preachers and revivalists, Finney was America’s greatest revivalist and Spurgeon was England’s greatest preacher. Both men led thousands to faith in Jesus Christ during their lifetimes, and both men influence Christian preachers, revivalists, and theologians today. These two great Bible expositors can be studied together by reading their sermons on the same Biblical themes face to face.

In the sermon by Charles Finney included in this book, he preached a revival sermon to a congregation that included college students. He directed his sermon especially toward those who are not Christians and to those who profess to be Christians but whose lives demonstrate that they have not given their hearts and minds to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Finney emphasized the way people should hear the Gospel and take heed to what the Bible says. He lamented the way so many people refuse to give attention to the Word of God. Finney preached in this sermon: “You might notice how your spiritual strength is renewed when your heart takes hold of the sermons you hear as the hungry man takes hold of suitable food set before him. By a figure at once fit and beautiful does Paul say, ‘We are unto God a sweet savor of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the one we are a savor of death unto death, to the other, a savor of life unto life.’ So to some of you, no doubt, the gospel preached is ‘death unto death’ accumulated guilt and damnation; while to others it is ‘life unto life,’ increasing knowledge and piety, and augmented glory.”

In the sermon by Charles Spurgeon included in the book, he described the various types of soil in Jesus’ parable and the effect of the Word of God, the Gospel, on these various soils. For example, when he described the seed that fell on the rocks or rocky soil, he preached in his sermon: “Have we not tens of thousands of our hearers who receive the word with joy? They have no deep convictions, it is true, no terrible alarms, but they leap into Christ suddenly. They profess an instantaneous faith in Him, and that faith too has all the appearance of being genuine. When we look at it, the seed has really sprouted. There is a kind of life in it; there is the real green blade. We thank God, and bow our knees, and clap our hands! There is a sinner brought back we say. There is a soul born to God. There is an heir of heaven. But our joy is premature! They sprang up suddenly, and received the word with joy, because they had no depth of earth. From that very cause which hastened their reception of the seed, they also by and by withered away when the sun rose with its fervent heat.”

The first book in the series was "The Rich Man and Lazarus." The third book in the series is "Will the Will of God When You Pray."

In 2014, Agion Press began the publication of a series of short books of two sermons each by these two great preachers on the same scripture text. The first book in the series is "The Rich Man and Lazarus" and the second book in the series is "The Sower and the Seed." In "The Sower and the Seed" you will notice the emphasis that Charles Finney placed on the importance and value of the Seed, the Word of God; whereas, Spurgeon explained the different effect of the Seed in people’s lives because of the state of their hearts. Both sermons complement one another for a more complete picture of this parable by Jesus.