Book Review: A Passion for Souls: The Life of D.L. Moody In A Passion for Soul, Lyle Dorsett 1 combines an artful writing style and exhaustive research with a genuine admiration of his subject to create an inspiring and informative historical biography of Dwight L. Moody. Dorsett shows how growing up fatherless and poor molded Moody, giving him an early desire to succeed in business and… Read More
Book Review: Revival In this collection of sermons, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones discusses the theme of revival from his prestigious Westminster pulpit. 1 For more than twenty-five years D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones served as minister to the Westminster Chapel in London. Prior to his ministry in London he left a profitable medical practice to serve in a poor Welsh mining… Read More
Book Review: The Doctrine of Repentance In the Doctrine of Repentance 1 Thomas Watson goes to great lengths to impress upon his reader the basis of his thesis that both the gravity of sin and the blessings of repentance dictate that all men everywhere repent at once. He presents his arguments, against sin and in favor of repentance, by attempting to… Read More
Book Review: The Event of the Century J. Edwin Orr combines scholarship and his lifelong passion for revival in this thorough treatment of the revival of 1857-58. Revival was the focus of both his professional and personal life. Orr, was a Christian who, his friends could say, had a “consistent walk with God” (viii) and carried a “long-time burden for world-wide revival”… Read More
Book Review: Revivals, Awakenings and Reform From a historian’s perspective William McLoughlin 1 sets out to analyze the phenomena of spiritual awakening and define it from a multi-disciplined point of view. As recorded in the foreword, McLoughlin takes Paul Tillich’s statement, “that religion is the soul of culture and culture the form of religion” (vii) literally. He is more interested in… Read More