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In this book, John Piper explores the lives of 21 leaders from church history, offering a close look at their perseverance amidst opposition, weakness, and suffering--inspiring readers toward a life of Christ-exalting courage, passion, and joy.
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[Book 1: The Legacy of Sovereign Joy] The sum of all our goods, and our perfect good, is God. We must not fall short of this, nor seek anything beyond it; the first is dangerous, the other impossible. -- St. Augustine, "Morals of the Catholic Church"
[Book 2: The Hidden Smile of God]
Judge not the Lod by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace, Behind a frowning providene He hides a smiling face. -- William Cowper "God Moves in a Mysterious Way"
[Book 3: The Roots of Endurance] A book by Richard Sibbes, one the the choicest of the Puritan writters, was read by Richard Baxter, who was greatly blessed by it. Baxter then wrote his "Call to the Uncoverted" which deeply influenced Philip Doddridge, who in turn wrote "The Rise adn Progress of Religion in the Soul. This brought the youn William Wilberforce, subsequen English statesman and foe of slavery, to serious thought of eternity. Wilberforce wrote his "Practical Book of Christianity" which fired the soul of Leigh Richmond. Richmond, in turn wrote "The Dairyman's Daughter", a book that brought thousands to the Lord, helping Thomas Chalmers the creat preacer, among others. -- Ernest Resinger, "Every Christian a Publisher"
[Book 4: Contending for Our All] Our upbringing and the whole atmosphere of the world we live in make it certain that our main temptation will be that of yielding to winds of doctrine, not that of ignoring them. We are not at all likely to be hidebound: we are very likely indeed to be the slaves of fashion. If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful. The standard of permanent Christianity must be kept clear in our minds and it is against that standard that we must test all contemporary thought. In fact, we must at all costs not move with the times. We serve One who said, "Heaven and Earth shall move with the times, but my words shall not move with the times" (Matt. 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33). C. S. Lewis "Christian Apologetics"
[Book 5: Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ] A letter from John Calvin to five young Frenchmen about to be martyred in 1553 for carrying the gospel into France:
We who are here shall do our duty in praying that [God] would glofiry Himself more and more by your constancy, and that He may, by the comfort of His Spirit, sweeten and endear all that is bitter to the flesh, and so absorb your spirits in Himself, that in contemplating that heavenly crown, you may be ready without regret to leave all that belongs to this world.
Now, at this present hour, necessity itself exhorts you more than ever to turn your whole mind heavenward. As yet, we know not what will be the event. But, since it appears as though God would use your blood to seal His truth, there is nothing better for you than to prepare yourselves for that end, beseeching Him so to subdue you to His good pleasure, that nothing may hinder you from following whithersoever He shall call. . . . Since it pleases Him to employ you to the death in maintaining His quarrel, He will strengthen your hands in the fight and will not suffer a single drop of our blood to be shed in vain.
[Book 6: Seein Beauty and Saying Beautifully] Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, let the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the por of God....Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ... For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stonger than men....And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 1:17-2:2
[Book 7: A Camaraderie of Confidence] It was George Muller who said it, with that holy blessed life of faith at the back of every word; and I was like a child, sitting at a tutor's feet, to learn of him. -- Charles Spurgeon
No mission now existing has so fully our confidence and good wishes as the work of Mr. Hudson Taylor in China. It is conducted on those principles of faith in God which most dearly comment themselves to our innermost soul. The man at the head is "a vessel fit for the Master's use." His methods of procedure command our veneration. --Charles Spurgeon
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Book 1: To Jon Bloom whose heart and hands sustain the song at the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors and Desiring God Ministries
Book 2: To George T. Henry and Pamela C. Henry; Parents of my wife, partners in the warfare, precious in life and death.
Book 3: To my grandfather Elmer Albert Piper who said, when he was almost dead and Daddy prayed for faith, one word: "Amen"
Book 4: To R. C. Sproul; Faithful Contender for the Supreme Greatness of the Holiness of God
Book 5: To those who suffer to spread the gospel, "Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body
Book 6: In memory of Clyde S. Kilby whose classroom poetic effort made us savor what he saw.
Book 7: To the Global Partners who have gone out from Bethlehem Baptist Church for the sake of the Name.
Eerste woorden
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[Preface - Collection] It brings me a great deal of pleasure at the beginning of this volume of collected biographies to pay tribute to a man without whom they would, in all likelihood, not exist.
[Preface - Book 1] At the age of seventy-one, four years before he died on August 28, AD 430, Aurelius Augustine handed over the adminstrative duties of the church in Hippo on the northern coast of Africa to his assistant Eraclius.
[Introduction - Book 1] God ordains that we gaze on his glory dimly mirrored in the ministry of his flawed servants.
[Preface - Book 2] The swans sing sweetly when they suffer.
[Introduction - Book 2] The afflictions of John Bunyan gave us "The Pilgrim's Progress."
[Preface - Book 3] One reason "the swans are not silent" is that they all knew "the roots of endurance."
[Introduction - Book 3] Perhaps it's because I am in my mid-fifties as I write this, but whatever the reason, my mind defaults to thoughts aout endurance these days.
[Preface - Book 4] The title of this series of books, The Swans Are Not Silent, comes from a story about S. Augustine.
[Introduction - Book 4] Some controversy is crucial for the sake of life-giving truth.
[Preface - Book 5] This is the fifth book in a collection called The Swans Are Not Silent.
[Introduction - Book 5] The Lord Jesus said to us in very sobering words, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:25).
[Preface - Book 6] When Eraclius, the successor to Augustine as bishop of Hippo in AD 400, said of his awe-inspiring predecessor, "The swan is silent," he compared his own voice to Augustine's as chirping cricket.
[Introduction - Book 6] This book is about the relationship between poetic effort on the one hand, and perceiving, relishing, and portraying truth and beauty on the other hand--especially the truth and beauty of God in Christ.
[Preface - Book 7] This is book seven in the series of biographicl studies called the Swans Are Not Silent.
[Introduction - Book 7] In some ways Charles Spurgeon, "the greatest preacher" of the nineteenth century, and George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans, and Hudson Taylor, who founded the China Inland Mission, were men of their amazing age.
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