In times when gospel fires are burning low, one way to begin fanning the embers of spiritual desire into flames is to read the biographies of saints in ages past whose love for God was blazing hot. Such a one was John Smith, an itinerant Wesleyan Methodist preacher whose passion for God and for souls was equal to that of David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray McCheyne, and David Stoner. Like them, his light only blazed forth for a short time, being extinguished by his untimely death at the youthful age of 37. Smith was radically converted in his late teens, and from the very beginning of his Christian life he manifested a burning...

Day by Day is a collection of the best writings of Charles H. Spurgeon; an entire book centered on Jesus, his great sacrifice for us, and what he means to us. "Are you trusting in the cross? Are you resting in Jesus? If not, may the Lord teach you this blessed privilege." Jesus is our salvation, our treasure, our heaven, our all. Bathe yourself in the love and loveliness of the Lord as Spurgeon leads us to all those precious places where our Savior lived, suffered, and then died for our redemption. "Charles Spurgeon was one of the very few individual Christians since Paul, with a far-flung, era-changing influence. Since his death in 1892,...

This book is the closest Vance Havner ever came to writing an autobiography. It tells of his boyhood years spent in the hills of North Carolina, his conversion at ten years of age, the obtaining of a preaching license at twelve, and his ordination at fifteen. Brief accounts are given of his high school and Bible college years, along with a brief history of early pastorates and evangelistic travels. In his usual forthright manner he tells about his short dalliance with modernism and his subsequent return to the old-time gospel message. “My preaching was of the ‘repent as it were and believe in a measure or you’ll be lost to some extent’...