Hammer & Nail 1 Year Anniversary

It hardly seems like a year has past since I started this blog. It has been a very enjoyable learning experience for me. I have found other great blogs along the way and added links to my favorites. In all of the fun I have tried to "Spread a passion for the supremecy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ."

I love to read and have found that biographies have been a great help in encouraging me. To see how God has dealt with a Spurgeon, Whitefield, Pink, Edwards, Wesley .... on and on brings me great encouragement and joy.

May the year ahead be one in which the reader of Hammer and Nail will go hard afte God. May you be satified in Him alone as you greatest treasure.

Free Audio Books Every Month

ChristianAudio.com features one book a month to download for free. This month it is "The Reformed Pastor" by Richard Baxter. Its easy to sign up and take advantage of this great service.

Go to the home page and click the button in the upper right hand corner.

Martin Lloyd-Jones

Check out the Martin Lloyd-Jones recording trust for audio downloads of Lloyd-Jones one of the great preachers of our time. The web site offers a free weekly sermon to download and also books to download as well.

Read the bio of Lloyd-Jones.

Desiring God 2007 Spring Regional Conference

Desiring God held its 2007 Spring Regional Conference - Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ. John Piper preached for three sessions and then a Q & A session. The book by the same title is available on line at Desiring God web store. The audio can be heard by cliking the link below:
Session One
Session Two
Session Three Q & A
Session Four

George Whitefield a Servant of God

Recently I read a book by Arnold Dallimore about George Whitefield and it is an amazing story of how God has worked through a faithful servant. The title of the book is
George Whitefield: God's Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century

Arnold A. Dallimore was a Baptist pastor for 38 years and has also been editor of THE EVANGELICAL BAPTIST. He has written other biographies on Christian leaders of the past. His two-volume work on George Whitefield received much praise as the finest biography of this preacher, and is here condensed into one shorter volume.

In the wake of George Whitefield's fearless preaching, revival swept across the British Isles, and the Greak Awakening transformed the American colonies.When Whitefield died at age 55, he had preached 30,000 sermons. His hearers included not only the poor and the uneducated, but prominent English aristocrats and American statesmen such as David Hume and Benjamin Franklin

George Whitefield was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. Making 13 trips across the Atlantic Ocean was a feat in itself, for it was during a time when sea travel was primitive. This meant he spent over two years of his life traveling on water -- 782 days. However, his diligence and sacrifice helped turn two nations back to God. Jonathan Edwards was stirring things up in New England, and John Wesley was doing the same in England. Whitefield completed the trio of men humanly responsible for the great awakening on both sides of the Atlantic. He spent about 24 years of ministry in the British Isles and about nine more years in America, speaking to some ten million souls.

Arnold Dallimore: Why Read His Books?

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