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IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
Jonathan Edwards warns that “the axe is at the root”
THE PRINCE OF PREACHERS
The astounding life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who received 14,691 people into church membership and touched the lives of countless more
MARY’S WALK OF FAITH
The extraordinary story of Mary Jones, the girl who saved for six years and walked 50 miles for a Bible
TIME TRAVEL
We can be healed but not saved, warns Donald Gee
BIBLE CROSSWORD
Test your knowledge
THE BIG PICTURE
How William Booth used the latest technology to take his message to the whole nation
A NEW SPIRITUAL OASIS
As the Elim Movement celebrates its centenary we look at the explosive evangelism that launched it
FAITHFUL TO THE LAST
Alex Paterson proves it’s never too late to serve Christ
CALLED TO THE CONGO
Legendary missionary Harold Womersley served in Africa for almost half a century
HOLLYWOOD’S UNBROKEN MAN
Louis Zamperini and the story Hollywood missed
CHRIST’S RESURRECTION POWER
Wigglesworth learned divine healing the hard way
IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
The heartbreaking story behind the words
Inspiring a generation.
As I look back over nearly 50 years of Christian service, I thank God for the men and women who have been an inspiration to me. One man I knew personally in the latter years of his life was the missionary, Harold Womersley.
Although old age had infirmed his body, Harold’s mind and spirit were as keen as ever as I sat by his bedside and he told me tales of his adventures in the then Belgian Congo. It was amazing to think that the elderly gent sitting before me had once literally been where no white man had ever been before.
Looking at this grand old man, still full of faith and spiritual vigour, I could imagine what an interview with the patriarch Abraham must gave been like! It was a great privilege, then, to have none other than Harold Womersley lay hands on me and pray for me at my induction as a minister. Perhaps his prayer was one of the reasons I have visited Africa more than 20 times during my own years of ministry.
Inspiration can also come from the pages of history, from reading about people we have never known personally. One wonders, for example, just how many people have been inspired by the story of a simple Welsh girl who loved the Bible so much that she walked 25 miles just so she could have her own copy of the Word of God. Certainly many millions of people have been blessed by the work of the Bible Society whose founding was inspired by Mary’s historic walk.
One man who has continued to inspire generations of Christians today through his ministry is Charles Haddon Spurgeon. So powerful was his oratory that his contemporaries named Spurgeon the ‘Prince of Preachers’ and his printed sermons continue to be widely read today. No wonder his church was always crowded to capacity!
It is the job of every generation in the church to spur on the next. I do hope the amazing true stories presented here will encourage every reader to further and more devoted service for Christ. And may I suggest that, if you are an older person reading this magazine, you pass it on to a younger person – perhaps a teenager – to read, with a prayer that they too may be impacted.
David Littlewood, Editor
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