An Ecumenical Ministry in the Parish of St Patrick's Catholic Church In San Diego USA

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

When is the last time you read a good biography?


When is the last time you read a good biography?

A.W. Tozer said, "next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aid to the life of faith may be Christian biographies."

We at the Banner share Tozer's belief, and so we have selected chapters from two engaging biographies about Christian pastors for you to download and read. We hope these samples encourage you to read more church history.



The Fight of Faith: Introduction & Chapter One


Iain Murray's biography of Dr. D. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones

'...But although these years are now past history, it is remarkable how little evangelical literature the Christian Church currently possesses on them, literature which might show why things have happened as they have. That being so, and as Dr. Lloyd-Jones' life and work cannot be understood without the larger context, I have felt compelled to include some spiritual history of his times...' 
 



They Were Pilgrims:
Robert Murray M'Cheyne


Marcus Loane


 
'Robert Murray M‘Cheyne was enrolled in the University of Edinburgh at the age of fourteen in the winter term of 1827; he took his Arts degree four years later in the spring of 1831...He was a stranger during those years to the penetrative power of true faith, and the great change in his spiritual experience did not take place until he had finished his course in Arts. It was only when the cold, bleak wind of sorrow began to blow that he awoke to his need for spiritual reality...'

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