Baptist mission biography books
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Complete 3-volume set of Tom Nettles’ trilogy on Baptist history. A comprehensive work!
Vol 1: Beginnings in Britain
The nature of Baptist identity has come to a place of critical importance in church history studies. What exactly constitutes a Baptist? Tom Nettles seeks to answer this fascinating question through examining the lives of some of the most high profile and influential Baptists in history.
Vol 2: Beginnings in American
What exactly constitutes a Baptist? In Volume 1, Professor Nettles sought to answer this question through examining the lives of some of the most high kontur Baptists, looking at the origins of the Baptist Church in Britain.
Here, Volume 2 tells the story of Baptist beginnings in America, and looks at the inspirational contributions of those such as Lottie Moon and Ann Judson in the growth of the Baptist Church. They shared the views of their English brethren, and were able to be instrumental in the new world in the achievement of separat
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British Baptist biographies and histories
The majority of the volumes that comprise this collection are uniformly bound in red cloth vellum with gold stamping and are indexed.
A word about our Particular Baptist Press indexes.
We generally create three detailed comprehensive indexes for each of our volumes in the British Baptist Biographies and Histories Series and the Particular/Regular Baptists in America Series. The Index of Persons includes dates of birth and death on known entries whether these dates appear in the text or not. The Index of Subjects includes doctrinal and theological subjects, as well as separate entries on the Persons of the Godhead. The Index of Churches includes churches mentioned in the book, organized by state, along with its denominational affiliation and the date it was constituted—a unique addition that most books do not have. As you can see in the examples below, we spend a great deal of time compiling each
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) — We generally consider seeking counsel to be approaching the “gray-beards” in our lives — those who are older, who walk closely with God, who have made wise decisions in their own lives — and asking them their thoughts on a matter.
This is crucial to do; these dear saints are a grace gift from God to each of us. They have watched us grow in our Christian life and witnessed the times when we ran ahead of God or lagged behind His leadership. It is such a blessing to be able to lay our dilemma before one who knows and loves us and seek their counsel.
Yet, counsel also comes from even older saints as well.
I love to read missionary biographies, and I always have one or more going. I keep them on my nightstand, in my carry-on, downloaded onto my Kindle, and have shelves in my study dedicated to these biographies, including many favorites that I re-read from time to time.
Reading missionary biographies is another way to seek counse