I enjoyed reading Rosenberg’s novels so I was willing to take a chance on a book about his life and how he came to his prophetic views. I was somewhat disappointed. In his novels, he majored on the battle of Gog and Magog (based on Ezekiel 38 &39) and God’s rescue of Israel during that […]
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Book Genre: Biography
William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers
I have a special interest in William McGuffey because I (and my siblings) spent eight years in the McGuffey elementary school in Oxford, Ohio. The School is located on the campus of Miami University where my father was a professor from 1955 to 1985. McGuffey taught at Miami from 1826 to 1836 in the field […]
An Authentic Narrative
John Newton, pastor, song writer, and former slave-trader, wrote his auto-biography in a series of fourteen letters to a friend. They are quite remarkable in literary genius and spiritual insight. They remind one of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as Newton traveled the sailing world in hunt of treasure to sell (sometimes even slaves) and often […]
Letters of John Newton
We all know John Newton as the author of Amazing Grace, perhaps the best-known gospel hymn of all time. We also may know him as a converted slave trader who contributed to the English abolition movement in the late 1700s. Fewer may know him as a conservative (though Anglican) pastor of two parish churches during […]
Sankey: the singer & his song
While ordering some books online I came across this small book first published in 1946 and reprinted in 1996 by Ambassador Books, Belfast. Since we visit the place in Edinburgh where Moody and Sankey preached and sang, I am curious to know the details of their ministry together. The author relays the story of how […]
The Armies of the Lamb
I have found the writings of Andrew Fuller, the friend of William Carey, to be of great inspiration. This is a collection of letters that he wrote over the course of his ministry. I have included this brief summary of his salvation. “I thought nothing about the exercises of my own mind, but merely of […]
The Lives of Robert and James Haldane
Robert and James Haldane were brothers who came to the Lord and ministered in their native Scotland in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Many have read or used Robert Haldane’s classic commentary on Romans (which was required even in Bible College). On each trip to Scotland we attend the Charlotte Baptist Chapel in Edinburgh […]
Early Baptist Missionaries and Pioneers
To fulfill two of my determinations about reading, a) mixing older books into my reading schedule and b) not passing up good bargains in used book stores, this book found its way to my night stand over the last couple months. It is a 1925 Judson Press edition from the Northern Baptist Convention’s Missionary Board. […]
Life and Letters of John Broadus
We all ought to read more biographies, especially of men of God who have greatly influenced church history. John Broadus was a nineteenth-century Baptist and Greek scholar and was one of the men who founded Southern Baptist Seminary. The book is written by his successor and son-in-law, A.T. Robertson. Robertson collected correspondence to and from […]
William Carey: the pioneer missionary
One of my joys of perusing the used book stores is finding good biographies on great men of God. It is hard to go wrong reading about the life of William Carey! Carey called himself a “Dissenter” and not a “Churchman.” He was not an Arminian Baptist but neither was he a hyper-Calvinist as his […]