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Book: The Calvary Road (Roy Hession)

Admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:44:19 +0000

This book by missionary and evangelist Roy Hession has been a long-standing “must read” for decades at our church. Thankfully, the entire book is now available as a PDF document and is posted here: The_Calvary_Road_(RoyHession).pdf

It’s only 29 pages but it’s loaded with challenges that will spark personal revival! Some highlights include Chapter 4 “The Highway of Holiness” and Chapter 10 “Protesting Our Innocence?” (which was included in our Passion Readers). It’s well-worth reading again and again…

[Note: This pdf was made available from http://www.christianissues.biz/pdf-bin/sanctification/thecalvaryroad.pdf ]

Excerpt: When the Church was a Family

jeannielee — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:33:24 +0000

Decision Making in the Family of God

by Joseph H. Hellerman

Click here to download the excerpt of this chapter.

He replied to them, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “here are My mother and My brothers! Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.” Mark 3:33-35

Nick and Tina (not their real names) attended a church where I served in the late 1980’s. They came to see my on a Wednesday evening in mid-October, having just finished their weekly ministry in our children’s department. The couple had met at a church softball game a couple of months earlier. Now they wanted to get married in December. I did the math. Nick and Tina would have just four months together from acquaintance to the altar. The way that Nick and Tina wrestled with this major life decision helpfully illustrates what can happen when the church family functions as God intends it to.

Excerpt: Lives Given, Not Taken

Andy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:43:24 +0000

21st Century Southern Baptist Martyrs

by Erich Bridges and Jerry Rankin

Click here to download the introduction of this incredible book

Lives Given, Not Taken: 21st Century Southern Baptist Martyrs by International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin and IMB senior writer Erich Bridges, tells the story of eight Southern Baptist workers killed in the past three years.

Bill Koehn, Kathy Gariety and Martha Myers, medical missionaries, were killed Dec. 30, 2002, at Jibla Baptist Hospital in Yemen by a Muslim militant. Bill Hyde died in a terrorist bombing in the Philippines on March 4, 2003. David McDonnall, Larry and Jean Elliott and Karen Watson – a team of humanitarian relief workers – were killed by insurgents on March 15, 2004, while driving in Iraq.

The book describes the impact the martyrs had on those around them, not just through their deaths but also during their lives.