Clear Vision musings

By Christopher Catherwood / Christian Focus Publications

Christopher Catherwood tells you about the amazing life of his grandfather, Martyn Lloyd-Jones who was trained as a doctor when he was just sixteen years old. Talented and successful he was destined to become the Queen’s Surgeon. However, he gave it all up to work for God. In this book you will find out why. Softcover, 159 pages. Recommended for ages 9 to 14.

By Irene Howat / Christian Focus Publications

Would you like to make history? Would you like to change your world? These ten boys grew up and did just that! Find out how Samuel Rutherford showed people that love works better than fear; Johnathan Edwards helped the Iroquois Indians and then was asked to teach at Princeton; Gorege Whitefield preached the Salvation to thousands and saved the lives of children; Robert Murray McCheyne lost his brother but found Jesus; D.L. Moody sold shoes in a shop and then taught childrenk in a caravan; Billy played proffessional baseballl and then preached the gospel; Charles Spurgeon became a Christian in a snowstorm and then told the world about Jesus; A.W. Tozer rescued orphan lambs and then he was saved by Jesus; Martyn Lloyd Jones became a doctor but found a better medicine for souls.

By John J. Murray / Evangelical Press

It is the belief of the author that a significant change came about in the history of the church in the United Kingdom in the middle decades of the 20th century. It was by and large a recovery of something that had been a reality in the church in past generations. Step by step men were led to see what was missing in the type of Christianity that prevailed for the first half of the century and began to direct their minds back to the glories of past eras.It is instructive to trace the various strands which were woven together in the providence of God to bring about the recovery. In most cases it was the discovery of some treasure of Christian literature from a spiritually-favoured age that set the person on the course he took. We find in the unfolding of history how the flame that burned in the heart of a man of God at one time is years later re-kindled in another—as happened in the case of George Whitefield being directed to Scougal’s Life of God in the Soul of Man, and in the life of the young C. H. Spurgeon to the writings of the Puritans.

The purpose of this work is to trace these providential links in the men and in the books that set in motion a recovery of the vision—looking at figures such as W. J. Grier, A. W. Pink and E. J. Poole-Connor. The central place is given to the influences that shaped the message and ministry of the leading figure in the recovery, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.