God's ways are not our ways. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the lives of some of his servants; Newton changed from slave-trader to abolitionist; R. A. Torrey, the great bible teacher, was on the verge of suicide; the polished Earl of Shaftesbury changed the fortunes of the less well-off.
We shouldn't be surprised when we have the examples in the Bible of David and Saul of Tarsus! John Pollock's deft, biographical pen sweeps over great reformers, liberators and evangelists of the 18th & 19th centuries. He shows their spiritual development, often from unpromising beginnings, and encourages us to believe that God can use us too.
The 28 biographies here are arranged in five sections: Setting the Prisoners Free, Make the Foulest Clean, Soldiers for Christ, Assist me to Proclaim, and Into All the World.
We shouldn't be surprised when we have the examples in the Bible of David and Saul of Tarsus! John Pollock's deft, biographical pen sweeps over great reformers, liberators and evangelists of the 18th & 19th centuries. He shows their spiritual development, often from unpromising beginnings, and encourages us to believe that God can use us too.
The 28 biographies here are arranged in five sections: Setting the Prisoners Free, Make the Foulest Clean, Soldiers for Christ, Assist me to Proclaim, and Into All the World.