Meet Mr. Moody Part 3
written by: Warren Wiersbe Chapter 5: The Battle for Britain “I go where I can do the most good. That is what I am after. It is souls I want–it is souls I want!” Moody spoke those words to some British friends in 1873. He had recently arrived in Britain, responding to an invitation from
The Call To The Ministry
written by: Warren Wiersbe How can I determine whether I am called to the ministry, and how important is the assurance of a special call? The work of the ministry is too demanding and difficult for a man to enter it without a sense of divine calling. Men enter and then leave the ministry usually
B is for Biography Part 3
written by: Warren Wiersbe American evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody and British expositor G. Campbell Morgan were close friends, and it’s one of the ironies of preaching history that Morgan was “discovered” in the United States and Moody in Great Britain! In fact, it was Moody who brought Morgan to the States to minister at the
Eutychus: Take One Tablet
written by: Warren Wiersbe An unsuspecting archaeologist named Harvey Jenkins has made the find of the year at a dig near the ancient city of Nippur. It is a clay tablet with an inscription that has been deciphered as a dispensational chart. Fortunately, the tablet has the date 1863 B.C. stamped on it, so there
B is for Biography Part 2
written by: Warren Wiersbe Mark Twain said that a “classic” was a book everybody talked about but nobody read. You can apply that definition to classic sermons, especially “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards. On more than one occasion, I’ve heard people attack the sermon as “brutal”or “barbaric,” and then
Eutychus: Signed in His Absence
written by: Warren Wiersbe A friend of mine, who is a Very Important Christian Leader, takes time to answer his mail but not to sign the finished letters. His signature is so poor that anybody could sign the letters. His secretary merely stamps the signature: “Dictated by Dr.__ but signed in his absence.” The twenty-second
M Is For Maverick (Part 1)
Certain people in history say or do something special or different and as a result they become eponyms. An eponym is a person whose name is in the dictionary because that name has a special meaning based on something significant in a person’s life. For example, the word “doily” comes from the Doily family in
Q is for Quotations
“Thoughts belong to everybody,” said Charles Haddon Spurgeon. “I must not wonder that other people steal my thoughts, since I have stolen so many of other people’s. For my part, I beg, borrow, and steal from every conceivable quarter, but when I steal a man’s coat, I tear it all to pieces and make a
Eutychus: So, What’s Cooking?
Behold, a cook went forth to cook. And as he cooked, his household was nourished and satisfied, so much so that they went out into the highways and hedges and brought in the hungry and thirsty, and the house was filled. But it came to pass one day that the cook discovered a cookbook. In
‘V’ is for Variety
Preaching that’s predictable usually isn’t very powerful. If our listeners know where we’re going in a sermon and how we plan to get there, they will soon lose interest in the message, no matter how well we preach it. Without the unexpected and the element of surprise, even the best message will sound bland. Predictable
Eutychus: A Theology for Doorkeepers
The most exciting book announced at the recent Christian Booksellers Convention was The Church Janitor’s Bible Commentary, published by Boiler Room Press of Kokomo, Indiana. The editor, Claude Faucett, was kind enough to give me a free copy and explain the merits of the book. “People think church janitors are illiterate,” he said, “but we
Marks of Maturity in the Ministry (Part 3)
Dictatorship or leadership. A sixth mark of maturity is this: distinguishing between dictatorship and leadership. Churches rise or fall on leadership. Certainly it is true that all believers are one in Christ; but it is also true that God has set some believers over the local church as spiritual leaders. The church is an organism;