The man who doesn’t read isn’t any better off than the man who cannot read.

Five years from now you will be the same person except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Gentlemen, either read or get out of the ministry (John Wesley).

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own (Charles Spurgeon).

You find several more great quotes just like these in a recent article published by a brother in Lord who does read, David Cloud (check out his bookstore, too; he has a ton of great stuff to read!).

As one might venture farther and farther on a shoreless sea with no hope of ever reaching its outer boundaries, so the theologian [the student of Scripture] is ever confronted with limitless material in the realm of the doctrines of Scripture. It has been customary for the theologian to spend at least three years in classroom instruction to the science of Systematic Theology and under the instruction of those who through patient study and experience are able to guide him in this introductory research. However, the study of Bible doctrine is a life undertaking and ever makes its claims upon time and strength. Happy indeed is the student who secures a full rounded introduction to the vast science of Systematic Theology, but thrice blessed is he who with unrelenting purpose pursues his study to the end of his days on earth.

Nothing need be said here of the tragedy which is enacted by a student of Systematic Theology who, for one reason or another, has failed to be introduced to the field of his science, and who therefore continues to preach only on the lower plane of human conduct and never, for lack of requisite understanding, expounds a soul-transforming doctrine of the Scripture.

Many generations have passed since the pulpit has held lower ideals of doctrinal preaching than it holds today. Nevertheless, the human heart is unchanged and God’s remedy for sin-sick and unspiritual souls is the same, and the servant of God who would minister to these needs with true efficiency will discover the importance of unceasing study that he may himself prove to be unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth (2Tim 2.15).

In day when many pastors buy their sermons on-line and most pastors water-down (dumb-down) their messages in an effort to entertain rather than edify, I found Dr. Chafer’s words very refreshing.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. [1Tim 5.17]

Let’s labor well — work hard! — at the study of Scripture so that we can feed the Lord’s flock, and feed it well!

1. The 7 Sevens
2. The 7 Dispensations
3. The 7 Mysteries
4. The 7 Judgments
5. The 7 Resurrections
6. The 7 Baptisms
7. The 7 Covenants

It also includes seven different appendices that contain a bunch more information on the following topics:

1. The universal flood of Lucifer’s rebellion
2. The 430 years of Abraham’s dispensation
3. A comparison of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church
4. Hell & Paradise: Where the dead go
5. The Tree of Life
6. Blood
7. The Four Gospels

As always, even though by law I hold the copyright to my books, we offer them free of charge (free to download in PDF) and we grant permission to anyone to make as many copies of the books as they want. It’s simply impossible to ship books by normal mail in Latin America. The mail system is terrible (in some cases it doesn’t even exist) and the cost is prohibitive. But, most people have access to the Internet and can download a PDF to either read it on-line or print it out at a photocopy shop, or even on their printers at home (which is one reason why I write my books on 8.5×11-inch, letter-sized paper).

We still have several more books to proof, correct, format, and publish (as eBooks). So, please continue to pray for us! Thanks! ~Greg

True Christians are people who acknowledge and live under the Word of God. They submit without reserve to the Word of God written in “the Scripture of Truth” (the Book of Almighty God, Dan 10.21), believing the teaching, trusting the promises, following the commands.

Christians will tell you, if you ask them, that the Word of God has both convinced them of sin and assured them of forgiveness. They are captive to the Word of God and therefore aspire, like the psalmist, to have their whole lives brought into line with it.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! [Ps 119.5]

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. [Ps 119.10]

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. [Ps 119.26-27]

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. [Ps 119.36]

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. [Ps 119.80]

The promises of the Word are before them as they pray, and the precepts of the same are before them as they go about their daily tasks.

Since the Scriptures tell them that all things work together for their good (Rom 8.28), they use the Word of God as a touchstone (a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing) by which to test the various views that are put to them, and they will not touch anything which they are not sure that Scripture sanctions.

Why does this description fit so few of those who profess to be Christians in these days?

I often think of a plaque I saw at the Old Seatack Coast Guard Station, which is now a museum in Virginia Beach. This building housed guards who would watch the sea, keeping track of steamers plying along this often turbulent coast. During rough weather or poor visibility, ships would strike the shoals and breakup — always at times of merciless surf and current. Without outside help, their passengers and crew would perish, crushed by the pounding surf, pulled out to sea by the heavy tides, and drowned. Their only hope was specially rigged lifeboats, know as crash boats, that the coast guardsmen would row through the furious surf. I saw sketches in which these crash boats were almost vertical as the rowers pulled on the long oars and tried to make it beyond the surf to rescue the ship’s helpless crew.

Many times during the rough weather I would stand on the beach watching the surf and thinking to myself, “How could anyone make it through that incredible surf? Even it was humanly possible, how could anyone work up the courage to try?”

Then I found a small brass plaque mounted next to the exit doors near where the boats, ready at a moment’s notice, rested on their perches. The plaque is hard to read because the coast guardsmen used to rub it for luck. The wording is short and to the point:

“You have to go out. You don’t have to come back.”

What made these men go out? I’m sure their pay wasn’t much. The work was grueling and the risk was high. They didn’t save everyone. The decision was made long before the storms arrived. They knew that by signing up for this job, they were agreeing to go out with no guarantee of coming back.

Likewise, when [we] sign up to follow Jesus, we say we’ll go out into the lives of our family, friends, associates, and neighbors. We agree that our mission is to bring back as many people as we can. If we’re more concerned about the comforts of having our own needs met, then we’ve missed the point of our calling and of our salvation.

We don’t staff the life station to earn our salvation, we staff it because of our salvation; not so that God will love us more, but because He already loves us; not so He’ll bless us more, but because He has redeemed us.

This quote is from the book Lost in America by Tom Clegg and Warren Bird. Although I can’t really recommend the book for its content, I haven’t been able to get this quote out of my head ever since I read it five years ago.

If we don’t “go out” and preach the Gospel, warning sinners of the judgment to come and calling them to repentance… how will they be saved? ~Greg

Porque todo aquel que invocare el nombre del Señor, será salvo. ¿Cómo, pues, invocarán a aquel en el cual no han creído? ¿Y cómo creerán en aquel de quien no han oído? ¿Y cómo oirán sin haber quien les predique? ¿Y cómo predicarán si no fueren enviados? Como está escrito: ¡Cuán hermosos son los pies de los que anuncian la paz, de los que anuncian buenas nuevas! [Rom 10.13-15]

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day…

A desire for God which cannot break the chains of sleep is a weak thing and will do but little good for God after it has indulged itself fully…

We need a generation of preachers who seek God and seek Him early…

No man gets God who does not follow hard after Him, and no soul follows hard after God who is not after Him in early morn.

~ E.M. Bounds (Complete Works, pp464-65)

If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting.

Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath.

–A. W. Tozer, The Size of the Soul, 128-129.

All I can say is…

I want to be a preacher like that! I want to be a preacher like that! I want to be a preacher like that!!!

Oh, you may talk about power; but, if you neglect the one Book that God has given you as the one instrument through which He imparts and exercises His power, you will not have it. You may read many books and go to many conventions and you may have your all-night prayer meetings to pray for the power of the Holy Ghost; but unless you keep in constant and close association with the one Book, the Bible, you will not have power. And if you ever had power, you will not maintain it except by the daily, earnest, intense study of that Book.

Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

…why did they [the crowds] long to hear Mr. Moody? Because they knew that while he was not versed in many of the philosophies and fads and fancies of the day, he did know the one Book that this old world most longs to know — the Bible.

Oh, men and women, if you wish to get an audience and wish to do that audience some good after you get them, study, study, STUDY the one Book, and preach, preach, PREACH the one Book, and teach, teach, TEACH the one Book, the Bible, the only Book that is God’s Word, and the only Book that has power to gather and hold and bless the crowds for any great length of time.

Moody was a simple man that went about the business of a simple ministry. It kind of reminds me of what Paul said in 1Corinthians 2.1-5: Keep it simple so that everyone knows it’s God who’s getting things done. That way, God will have all the glory.

Please pray for our ministry here that God would greatly bless it and use us for His glory in Jesus Christ. We are committed to God’s Holy Word — doing God’s work God’s way — and I long to see God’s power manifest in the saving of souls and the sanctifying of those who name the Name of Christ. ~Greg

We naively think that the more we grow as Christians, the easier it will be to discern the will of God. But the opposite is often the case. God treats the mature leader as a mature adult, leaving more and more to his or her spiritual discernment and giving fewer bits of tangible guidance than in earlier years. The resulting perplexity adds inevitably to a leader’s pressure.

Hudson Taylor once said how in his younger days, things came so clearly, so quickly to him. “But,” he said, “now as I have gone on, and God has used me more and more, I seem often to be like a man going along in a fog. I do not know what to do.”

Are you praying for your spiritual leader? Are you praying for your pastor? Are you praying for the missionaries you know? Or are you critical of them?

~Greg

We have used words of man’s wisdom. We have forgotten Paul’s resolution to avoid the enticing words of man’s wisdom, lest he should make the cross of Christ of none effect. We have reversed his reasoning as well as his resolution, and acted as if by well-studied, well-polished, well-reasoned discourses, we could so gild and beautify the cross as to make it no longer repulsive, but irresistibly attractive to the carnal eye! Hence we have often sent men home well satisfied with themselves, convinced that they were religious because they were affected by our eloquence, touched by our appeals or persuaded by our arguments. In this way we have made the cross of Christ of none effect and sent souls to hell with a lie in their right hand. Thus by avoiding the offense of the cross and the foolishness of preaching we have had to labor in vain, and mourn over an unblest, unfruitful ministry.

Those words were written by Scottish preacher that lived from 1808 to 1889. I wonder what he would say if he could see the state of many pulpits today…

I wrote the book for the “common Christian” rather than the “scholar” and designed it to ground the Bible student in the basics of how to study the Bible for himself. The chapter titles are as follows:

1. The Requirements of Bible Study (the right attitude, the right Bible, etc.)
2. The Rules of Bible Study
3. The Theme of the Bible
4. Old Testament Survey
5. New Testament Survey
6. How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth (Dispensations)
7. The Kingdoms in the Bible
8. Things to Come (Eschatology)
9. The Transitional Books: Matthew, Acts, and Hebrews
10. Key Words and Phrases
11. Types and Pictures in the Word of God

Thanks to an anonymous donor at KCBT we were able to print up 500 copies of the book (8.5×11″, 350 pages, softcover). Please pray that God would use them greatly to preach and teach truth in the Spanish speaking Church.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. [1Tim 2.3-4]

This is an outstanding witnessing tool if you know someone that is not saved and is a bit skeptical about God and Christianity. And now they offer it in Spanish (so if you want to buy me a box or two… that would be great!!).

Check it out. Buy a copy in English, read it and see how it’s laid out. Then keep several copies (English and Spanish) because God will open doors for you to give them away!

He who is good as a minister is godly.

Ministers must be:

(i) Painstaking. “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season” (2Tim 4.2). The minister must not be idle. Sloth is as inexcusable in a minister as sleeping in a sentry. A man of God must work in the Lord’s vineyard. It was Augustine’s wish that Christ might find him at His coming either praying or preaching.

(ii) Knowledgeable. “The priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth” (Mal 2.7). Christ said to Peter, “Feed my sheep” (John 21.16). But how sad it is when the shepherd needs to be fed! Ignorance in a minister is like blindness in an optometrist.

(iii) A plain teacher, suiting his matter and style to the capacity of his audience (1Cor 14.19). Many think they are most admired when they are least understood. They who preach in the clouds, instead of hitting the people’s conscience, shoot over their heads.

(iv) Zealous in reproving sin: “rebuke them sharply” (Titus 1.3). A man of God must stoke the fire of his zeal with the fuel of Scripture. Zeal in a minister is as proper as fire on the altar. Some are afraid to reprove. So they carry the sword of the Spirit about them, but have no heart to draw it out in reproof against sin. How many have sown pillows under their people (Ezeq 13.18), making them sleep so securely that they never woke till they were in hell!

[Some comments from Greg:] The “minister” of the Word of God (Eph 4.11) is called to “perfect” the saints of God (Eph 4.12). That perfecting process takes place by the work of the Holy Spirit (2Cor 3.18) as He uses the Word of God (2Tim 3.16-17) to transform a sinner and conform him to the image of Christ (Rom 8.29; Gal 4.19; Eph 4.13). Therefore we, as ministers of the Word, are called to preach the Word (2Tim 4.1-5) and teach the Word–the whole counsel of God (the whole of Scripture; Col 1.28; Acts 20.27).

May God grant us the grace to be diligent students of His Word (1Tim 4.6) so that we might be zealous preachers of His Word and thorough teachers of the same. If we long to hear these words:

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant… [Mat 25.21]

Then we need to heed these words:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. [2Tim 2.15]

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained… Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine… Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. [1Tim 4.6-16]

“Do we set a high estimation on Christ? How shall we know…?“

And then he proceeds to give eight “answers” to his questions. I’ve shortened them, but just ask yourself the question and then read his answers. Do you really esteem Christ? How much? Do you esteem (prize) Him enough? Think about this…

Answer 1: If we are prizers of Christ, then we prefer Him in our judgments before other things. We value Christ above honour and riches. He who prizes Christ counts the worst things of Him better than the best things of the world.

Answer 2: If we are prizers of Christ, we cannot live without Him. A man may live without music, but not without food. A child of God can lack health and friends, but he cannot lack Christ. Do they prize Christ who can manage well enough to be without Him? Give a child a rattle, and it will not want gold. If men only have enough worldly possessions, they can be content enough without Christ. Do those prize Christ who can sit down content without Him?

Answer 3: If we are prizers of Christ, then we shall not complain at any pains to get Him. He who prizes gold will dig for it in the mine: “My soul followeth hard after God” (Ps 63.8). Many say they have Christ in high veneration, but they are not industrious in the use of means to obtain Him (they do not work hard and diligently to know Him through the Word and prayer).

Answer 4: If we are prizers of Christ, then we take great pleasure in Christ.

Answer 5: If we are prizers of Christ, then we will part with our dearest pleasures for Him. He who esteems Christ will pull out that lust which is his right eye. He will set his feet on the neck of his sins for Christ. How can they be said to prize Christ who will not leave a vanity for Him?

Answer 6: If we are prizers of Christ, we shall think we cannot have Him at too dear a cost. Do not let him who refuses to bear his cross say that he prizes Christ.

Answer 7: If we are prizers of Christ, we will be willing to help others to get a part in Him. That which we esteem excellent, we are desirous our friend should have a share in it. If a man has found a spring of water, he will call others that they may drink and satisfy their thirst. Do we commend Christ to others? Do we take them by the hand and lead them to Christ. This shows how few prize Christ.

Answer 8: If we are prizers of Christ, then we prize Him in health as well as in sickness; when we are enlarged, as well as when we are straitened. He who values his Saviour aright has as precious thoughts of Him in a day of prosperity as in a day of adversity.

Have you ever thought about how much you esteem Christ? …or how little? It’s an interesting reflexion, is it not? ~Greg

Max Jukes, the atheist, lived a godless life. He married an ungodly girl, and from the union there were 310 [of his descendants] who died paupers, 150 were criminals, 7 were murderers, 100 were drunkards, and more than half of the women were prostitutes. His 540 descendants cost the State one and a quarter million dollars.

But, praise the Lord, it works both ways! There is a record of a great American man of God Jonathan Edwards. He lived at the same time as Max Jukes, but he married a godly girl. An investigation was made of 1,394 known descendants of Jonathan Edwards of which 13 became college presidents, 65 college professors, 3 United States senators, 30 judges, 100 lawyers, 60 physicians, 75 army and navy officers, 100 preachers and missionaries, 60 authors of prominence, once vice-president of the United States, 80 became public officials in other capacities, 295 college graduates, among whom were governors of states and ministers to foreign countries. His descendants did not cost the state one single penny.

Proverbs 10.7 says: “The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.” I think that just about sums it up, don’t you?

[The quote is originally from Crisis in Morality! by Al Sanders.]

The following is a review of the book by a third party, but it should give you a fairly good idea of what it’s about.

>>The Greatest Century of Missions is an inspiring and motivating story of how God worked through the lives of faithful men and women willing to sacrifice all for Him. Christians serious about fulfilling the command to all of us to fulfill the Great Commission will be encouraged to become active in spreading the gospel to those within their reach. This easy to read, succinct, and accurate summary of the lives and vision of the 19th century missionaries is a must read for Christians of any age including students in home schools , Christian schools, and colleges.

The Greatest Century of Missions, is a treasure trove of incredible adventures, inspiring exploits and unbelievable achievements of some of the most extra-ordinary people in the most momentous era of Christian advance. This book will be an invaluable resource for pastors and missionaries and a textbook for senior homeschoolers, Christian schools and Bible colleges. It should be required reading for prospective missionaries.

“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.”

This battle cry launched the most incredible movement in history.

As Church historian, Kenneth Scott Latourette, declared: “Never had any other set of ideas, religious or secular, being propagated over so wide an area by so many professional agents, maintained by the unconstrained donations of so many millions of individuals.”

In the words of Alexander Somerville, this was “a new enterprise on behalf of the noblest object that can engage the enthusiasm of man – the salvation of millions!”

The obstacles, dangers and difficulties they had to face and overcome were staggering.

By an act of British Parliament, missionaries were illegal in India. In China, not only was all missionary activity completely illegal, but so was attempting to learn the Chinese language! There was a ban on any Chinese teaching their language to foreigners. The Chinese tutors to Robert Morrison carried poison on their bodies so that if they were discovered, they could end their lives quickly and escape torture. Because the Chinese forbade foreign women, Robert Morrison had to live apart from his wife, Mary, for most of their lives, once for six years.

America’s first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson, was captured on the high seas and incarcerated in a French prison – from which he escaped. Later he was imprisoned and tortured in ‘Death Prison’, in Burma, for eighteen months.

When pioneer missionary to Persia, Henry Martin, sought to present his Persian New Testament to the Shah, he was challenged with an ultimatum to declare that ‘Muhammad is the prophet of God.’ Henry Martin boldly refused and asserted instead that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. His opponents were enraged and threatened to have his tongue torn out for ‘blasphemy’.

When Robert Moffat first applied to the London Missionary Society, he was rejected. His proposal to marry Mary Smith was also refused by her parents. Yet, Robert persevered and on his first missionary trip to South Africa, succeeded in bringing to Christ the most notorious bandit and murderer in the country. Finally, Mary Smith’s parents relented and gave permission. She sailed to South Africa, where they married and for the next 50 years, the Moffat’s became one of the greatest husband-wife teams in missionary history. Robert Moffat succeeded in being the first to translate the complete Bible into an African language.

Human life in the Pacific Islands was cheap and cannibalism was rife when the missionaries arrived. In Fiji, two-thirds of all the children were boiled and eaten. Every village had a human butcher. Aged parents were butchered and eaten by their friends. Men would even cook their best wife or child as a special feast for friends. The widows of chiefs and warriors were strangled or hung, so that they could ‘accompany their husbands to the next world’, there to continue serving them!

John Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, witnessed women killed in human sacrifices to secure the recovery to health of the chief, and was encircled by threatening cannibals ‘in a deadly ring and one kept urging another to strike the first blow.’ Yet Paton could write: ‘my heart rose up to the Lord Jesus; I saw Him watching all the scene, my peace came back to me like a wave from God. I realised that my life was immortal till my Master’s work with me is done.’ John Paton had the privilege of leading many of these cannibals to Christ and seeing the entire populations of some islands won to Christ.

Mary Slessor was born in a poverty-stricken family. Their one-roomed home had no water, lighting or toilet and hardly any furniture. Mary slept on the floor and began work at 10 years old. When two brothers, who had been dedicated to becoming missionaries to Africa, died, Mary resolved to take their place and to sail for Calabar. Mary established many schools and Churches and successfully brought an end to the killing of twins and the practice of slave trading in Calabar.

Hudson Taylor’s parents dedicated him to missionary work in China before he was even born. During a time of momentous upheavals in China, Hudson succeeded in launching the largest missionary organisation in the world, which brought many tens of thousands of Chinese to Christ.

C.T. Studd was a famous cricket captain, who became a pioneer missionary to China, India and later the Congo. CT Studd wrote: ‘Christ’s call is to capture men from the devil’s clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of hell, to enlist and train them for Jesus and make them a mighty army of God. But this can only be accomplished by red-hot, unconventional, unfettered Holy Spirit religion, by reckless sacrifice and heroism in the foremost trenches.’

Samuel Crowther was captured by African slavers and sold to a Portuguese trader for transport across the Atlantic. But he was rescued by a British Naval Squadron and became the first African Bishop of the Church of England. His pioneer missionary work in Yorubaland succeeded in establishing an Evangelical Anglicanism that was truly African.

When Britain was the greatest economic and military power in the world, Queen Victoria was asked by a visiting African prince what the secret of England’s greatness was. She presented him with a Bible, saying: ‘Here is the secret of England’s greatness.’

Samuel Zwemer chose to oppose the only faith that had caused Christianity to beat a retreat – Islam. He also resolved to engage the enemy on the soil of Arabia – the birthplace of Muhammad.

The Greatest Century of Missions presents many unforgettable pictures and stories about these and other fascinating missionaries of the 19th Century.

Dr. George Grant in his Introduction to the Greatest Century of Missions writes: “As missionaries circled the globe, penetrated the jungles and crossed the seas, they preached a singular message: light out of darkness, liberty out of tyranny, and life out of death. To cultures endemic with terrible poverty, brutality, lawlessness, and disease, those faithful Christian witnesses interjected the novel Christian concepts of grace, charity, law, medicine, and the sanctity of life. They overturned despots, liberated the captives, and rescued the perishing. They established hospitals. They founded orphanages. They started rescue missions. They built almshouses. They opened soup kitchens. They incorporated charitable societies. They changed laws. They demonstrated love. They lived as if people really mattered. Wherever missionaries went, they faced a dual challenge: confront sin in men’s hearts and confront sin in men’s cultures.

“Thus, the 19th Century missions movements was more than simply a great era of Biblical preaching. It was a great era of Biblical faith. Appropriately, Dr. Hammond beautifully captures this remarkable multi-faceted legacy in The Greatest Century of Missions. Not only does his fluid narrative make the individual missionaries come to life, he highlights their vision, their motivation, their theological faithfulness, and their long-term cultural impact.”

“It is my prayer that as modern Christians read this much needed book, they will see the great pioneers, these culture-shapers, these soul-winners and nation-builders of the 19th Century in a entirely new light and that we will model our own 21st Century efforts after theirs. I am convinced that if we do, we too will see a glorious transformation of men and nations – perhaps heralding an even greater century of missions. Lord, may it be so.”

The Greatest Century of Missions with 90 photographs, pictures and maps.