Shadow of the Almighty :: Elizabeth Elliot

In 1956 five courageous young missionaries were brutally speared to death in the Ecuadorian jungle by those they hoped to befriend. The compelling story of their ultimate sacrifice has been powerfully portrayed in countless books and movies in the decades since their martyrdom.

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Samuel Logan Brengle, Portrait of a Prophet (by Clarence Hall)

I have often prayed that God would shape me into a man that is a composite of several people; but the man I have read that I sense God most moving me toward is this one, Samuel Brengle.  As a Salvation Army preacher, Brengle was a man focused on one thing – the glory and holiness of God being preeminent in the lives of individuals.  His was not an easy life, but it was a full one. Read more

The Calvary Road :: Roy Hession

“Revival is not something that God does firstly among the unconverted, but among His people. Revival simply means New Life, and that implies that there is already Life there, but that the Life has ebbed. The unconverted do not need revival, for there is not any life there to revive. They need vival. It is the Christians who need revival. But that presupposes that there has been a declension. You only revive that which has grown weak. And they only are candidates for revival who are prepared to confess that there has been a declension in their lives. . . . The world has lost its faith, because the Church has lost its fire.” Read more

Reading Shelf 02

How can it be June already? It often amazes me how quickly times flies (question: do we say “time flies” because that is our quickest mode of transportation? If so, what will we say when we use transporters or some other fancy technology to get around . . . “Man, can you believe how fast time transports? . . . time zooms? . . . time____?” What does this have to do with books and reading, you ask? Read more

EM Bounds on Prayer

Few authors have had as much impact on prayer as EM Bounds. Bounds, a pastor who lived during the time of the Civil War, discovered that “prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublim-est; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.” Read more

Standing Firm Through the Great Apostasy :: Steve Gallagher

Imagine living in First Century Christianity. Passionate love and intimacy with Christ. A givenness to Jesus and a desire to be spilled and spent for His glory. The birth of the new Church. Selflessness marking the lives of the believers. A total consumption and focus on Jesus. Yet Paul looks down the corridors of history and writes these disturbing words to Timothy about the lives of not only unbelievers but believers in the last days: Read more