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10 preachers known by their double initial
1. C H Spurgeon (Charles Haddon)
2. D L Moody (Dwight Lyman)
3. A W Tozer (Aiden Wilson)
4. W A Criswell (Wallie Amos)
5. R A Torrey (Reuben Archer)
6. F B Meyer (Frederick Brotherton)
7. W E Sangster (William Edwin)
8. F W Boreham (Frank William)
9. T D Jakes (Thomas Dexter)
10. R C Sproul (Robert Charles)
[Not all recommended]
CYSK 16 D L Moody
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Dwight Lyman Moody (1837 – 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Moody Publishers. Ira Sankey was solo singer/music director for their evangelistic campaigns in both the United States and Great Britain. He came to Britian in 1867, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1881/2 and 1891/2. An evangelical ,he was controversial in some quarters but received the support of Spurgeon and other sound preachers.
Sherwood Screen Test
An article very similar to this one should be appearing in the July Evangelical Times.
If you are in the habit of sitting down of an evening to watch a DVD with family or friends then you may have come across one or more films produced by an American group called Sherwood Pictures (not to be confused with Sherwood Films, a quite different Edinburgh based entity). Three feature-length films have appeared so far – Flywheel (2003), Facing the Giants (2006) and Fireproof (2009). The third of these films features actor Kirk Cameron, a former atheist who made his name on TV in the comedy Growing pains (1985-1992) but is now working with the American evangelist Ray Comfort. The films' subtitles give some idea of the themes – “In every man's life there is a turning point”; “With God all things are possible” and “Never leave your partner behind”.
The films have been moderately successful. Each has been novelised. They are now available in a three box set with many extra features including Bible studies. A further film (Courageous) is expected next year. Whether you came across them by accident or design, you will have been pleased to sit through a heart warming evening's entertainment without having it sullied by some of the nonsense that can so often creep into the average film on general distribution today. (Having said that, do note that the second film is a PG probably owing to some of the themes, such as infertility).
The first film (Flywheel – a flywheel is a car part that is meant to serve as a little background parable) is a sort of modern version of the story of the New Testament character Zaccheus. The next film (Facing the Giants) makes college level American football the background with the focus on the coach, his failing team and the greater issues he has to face. The third film (Fireproof) is set in a small town fire station with the emphasis on how a man's marriage is saved, as well as the man himself.
It is not difficult to commend such films when they are so pleasant and so wholesome. Although they are clearly low budget films (Flywheel was made for $20,000, Fireproof for $500,000, whereas an average Hollywood film today costs over $100 million to make) the production values are high, the story lines decent, the tone engaging, the acting mostly of a good standard and the action fairly well paced, though the dialogue is sometimes rather poor. The projects are evidently bathed in prayer and executed with great integrity. There are some concerns, however.
The films are the brainchild of two brothers, Alex and Stephen Kendrick. Both are pastors on the staff of a large and prosperous Southern Baptist Church with many ministries, in Albany, Georgia - Sherwood Baptist Church. They say that the first film was prompted by a survey from the George Barna organisation suggesting that movies and television shows are more influential in American culture than the church. In light of that, says Alex Kendrick, they “decided as a church to step out in faith and produce a full-length feature film”. However, even if what Barna suggest is true (which is rather debatable) it is far from being clear that this is the right response. Certainly, it is hard to see how a local church has any New Testament mandate for such an activity.
Theologically, the church appears to be very much an evangelical one, of the Warren Wiersbe sort perhaps. In the first film the danger of preaching a health and wealth gospel is just about side stepped but all three films present conversion as something that happens quickly and definitely and perhaps betrays signs of a rather mechanical and decisionistic mentality.
Of course, the whole problem of how certain things are presented on screen is a major headache. Kirk Cameron is apparently unwilling to do on screen kissing. He is reported to have said that “In Fireproof, there is a romantic and touching scene where he (the character) kisses his wife. Because I have a commitment not to kiss any other woman, my wife Chelsea came in to the set and wore the dress my character’s wife wore. We shot the scene in silhouette, so when I kiss my wife, I’m actually kissing my wife and honouring our marriage.” One admires such thought through commitment but wonders what on earth the Christian actors are doing when they are supposed to be praying in a film – something that happens quite often in these films and that you almost never see in others. Are they praying or simply pretending to pray? Given that private prayer is to be a private matter, surely it would be better to avoid such scenes anyway?
If you are one for watching DVDs, these films will give you a few relaxing and thought provoking hours. If you look further into them through the internet (sherwoodpictures.com) or the enhanced DVDs, you will discover the ministry tools that Sherwood Baptist Church are making available to churches and believers for evangelisation, strengthening marriages and similar goals. Some will want to make us of such tools and one can see how in the context of an active local church they may prove very useful. Others will see such an approach as a distraction and not something they want to use as a tool.
D L Moody is said to have answered a critic of his evangelistic methods once by saying that he preferred his own way of doing things to the other man's way of not doing them. One is slow then to criticise what is clearly a sincere attempt to win the lost and to help God's people.
The films have been moderately successful. Each has been novelised. They are now available in a three box set with many extra features including Bible studies. A further film (Courageous) is expected next year. Whether you came across them by accident or design, you will have been pleased to sit through a heart warming evening's entertainment without having it sullied by some of the nonsense that can so often creep into the average film on general distribution today. (Having said that, do note that the second film is a PG probably owing to some of the themes, such as infertility).
The first film (Flywheel – a flywheel is a car part that is meant to serve as a little background parable) is a sort of modern version of the story of the New Testament character Zaccheus. The next film (Facing the Giants) makes college level American football the background with the focus on the coach, his failing team and the greater issues he has to face. The third film (Fireproof) is set in a small town fire station with the emphasis on how a man's marriage is saved, as well as the man himself.
It is not difficult to commend such films when they are so pleasant and so wholesome. Although they are clearly low budget films (Flywheel was made for $20,000, Fireproof for $500,000, whereas an average Hollywood film today costs over $100 million to make) the production values are high, the story lines decent, the tone engaging, the acting mostly of a good standard and the action fairly well paced, though the dialogue is sometimes rather poor. The projects are evidently bathed in prayer and executed with great integrity. There are some concerns, however.
The films are the brainchild of two brothers, Alex and Stephen Kendrick. Both are pastors on the staff of a large and prosperous Southern Baptist Church with many ministries, in Albany, Georgia - Sherwood Baptist Church. They say that the first film was prompted by a survey from the George Barna organisation suggesting that movies and television shows are more influential in American culture than the church. In light of that, says Alex Kendrick, they “decided as a church to step out in faith and produce a full-length feature film”. However, even if what Barna suggest is true (which is rather debatable) it is far from being clear that this is the right response. Certainly, it is hard to see how a local church has any New Testament mandate for such an activity.
Theologically, the church appears to be very much an evangelical one, of the Warren Wiersbe sort perhaps. In the first film the danger of preaching a health and wealth gospel is just about side stepped but all three films present conversion as something that happens quickly and definitely and perhaps betrays signs of a rather mechanical and decisionistic mentality.
Of course, the whole problem of how certain things are presented on screen is a major headache. Kirk Cameron is apparently unwilling to do on screen kissing. He is reported to have said that “In Fireproof, there is a romantic and touching scene where he (the character) kisses his wife. Because I have a commitment not to kiss any other woman, my wife Chelsea came in to the set and wore the dress my character’s wife wore. We shot the scene in silhouette, so when I kiss my wife, I’m actually kissing my wife and honouring our marriage.” One admires such thought through commitment but wonders what on earth the Christian actors are doing when they are supposed to be praying in a film – something that happens quite often in these films and that you almost never see in others. Are they praying or simply pretending to pray? Given that private prayer is to be a private matter, surely it would be better to avoid such scenes anyway?
If you are one for watching DVDs, these films will give you a few relaxing and thought provoking hours. If you look further into them through the internet (sherwoodpictures.com) or the enhanced DVDs, you will discover the ministry tools that Sherwood Baptist Church are making available to churches and believers for evangelisation, strengthening marriages and similar goals. Some will want to make us of such tools and one can see how in the context of an active local church they may prove very useful. Others will see such an approach as a distraction and not something they want to use as a tool.
D L Moody is said to have answered a critic of his evangelistic methods once by saying that he preferred his own way of doing things to the other man's way of not doing them. One is slow then to criticise what is clearly a sincere attempt to win the lost and to help God's people.
Home Schooled
One of the things to come out in the obituaries for Malcolm McLaren was that he was home schooled to the age of 10 by his grandmother. That set me thinking about famous home schooled people. There is a little room for argument over what home schooled means but I think the following lists are interesting adn hopefully accurate.
1. Ten famous Christians
John Owen
Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry
Jonathan Edwards
John (and Charles) Wesley
John Newton
John Witherspoon
John Newton
John Witherspoon
William Carey
Dwight L Moody
Hudson Taylor
Dwight L Moody
Hudson Taylor
C S Lewis
2. Ten Authors
Hans Christian Anderson
William Blake
Robert Browning
Pearl S Buck
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Sean O'Casey
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Phyllis Wheatley
Phyllis Wheatley
3. Ten composers and artists
J S Bach
Anton Bruckner
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francis Poulenc
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francis Poulenc
William Blake
John Singleton Copley
Evelyn de Morgan
Claude Monet
Andrew (and Jamie) Wyeth
Evelyn de Morgan
Claude Monet
Andrew (and Jamie) Wyeth
John J in Westminster
It was good to be at the Westminster Fellowship last Monday. An added bonus was being accompanied by my father-in-law who had been preaching in London the day before. About 20 or so gathered to hear a fine paper from John J Murray on evangelism and then to discuss it. Mr Murray made the following points:1. Reformed preaching before the 1870s was generally
God-centred, Word-centred, Doctrine driven, God exalting, preaching a supernatural salvation, the importance of piety and was corporate or church-centred.
2. What caused the change?
Three causes were identified - The 18th Century Enlightenment, the 19th Century rise of liberalism in Germany, the 19th Century rise of Finneyism in America.
3. The changes that D L Moody brought in
Mr Murray began by giving us a brief overview of Moody's visits to Britain and suggested his success came through:
His sincerity, humility and zeal; the obvious moving of the Spirit; the godly homes converts came from and Moody's ability to attract the untouched masses.
However, Moody's gospel was an Arminian one and although he adapted it in Britain his altar call method and use of music can also be questioned. The involvement of Henry Drummond rings alarm bells too. Seven points were then made highlighting the detrimental changes that went with all this:
A loss of the idea of the sovereignty of God; a lack of seriousness about sin; a lack of resultant piety (many professors fell away); a loss of doctrinal purity and a lack of interest in doctrine; a shift to individualism, which probably goes back much further; a loss of the old view of revival; a lack of historical continuity or desire for it.
In conclusion he made a number of applications including our need to get back to emphasising God, the need to recall our glorious heritage, the need to recover the art of biblical instruction, the need for fresh militancy and the need for revival and to see that need.
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