Amazing Grace - William Wilberforce coming February 2007

Walden Media to release movie about William Wilberforce titled Amazing Grace in 2007.

About the movie as described by Walden Media:
"Walden Media is passionate about bringing William Wilberforce's inspiring story to theaters and chronicling a crucial, but little-known, legislative battle in which justice and morality prevailed in the battle against slavery.
Filming of Amazing Grace will begin on October 29, 2005 on location across England. In our commitment to faithfully recreating Wilberforce's life, we will shoot at locations across England, including the Gloucester docks, Trafalgar Park, Hampton Court, and Parliament Square. The locations are not only historically accurate, they are also visually stunning. Near the beginning of production, we will film inside Parliament, and we will wrap the production at Westminster Abbey in January.
Amazing Grace will be in theaters in 2007."

Enjoying God Ministires and Jonathan Edwards

Sam Storms has a put together a great series of 46 articles on the theology of Jonathan Edwards. Storms ministy web site Enjoying God Ministries has a wealth of information on many subjects. Hours of reading enjoyment to help you delight in God.

Read Biographies - Jonathan Edwards 1703 - 1758

Murray has put together a very readable biography of one the the great theologians of all time in this work. If you can only read one biography this year read this one!
An American Congregationalist clergyman, was the outstanding theologian and scholar of colonial New England in the 1700's. In his most famous book Freedom of the Will (1754), he upheld such Calvinistic doctrines as predestination. But he insisted that man had freedom to choose alternative courses when forces outside him "inclined" his will to choose. Edwards was born on October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Conn. He received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Yale University. In 1727, he was ordained and installed as assistant in the church of Solomon Stoddard, his grandfather, at Northhampton, Mass. When Stoddard died in 1729, Edwards became pastor. The religious revival, a part of the Great Awakening, came to his church in 1734. His famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God"(1741), was preached during his revival. Edwards' discipline of young people for reading "immoral" literature and his refusal to give communion to unconverted church members caused dismissal in 1750. He then served as a missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, Mass., from 1751-1757. Edwards became president of the college of New England (now Princeton) in 1758, but died later that same year of smallpox.

For more information about Edwards and works by him, about him go to Monergism.

Read Biographies - John Wesley 1703 - 1791

I want to share other biographies that have been good reads. I have come to enjoy the writing of Iain Murray who has become a favorite. I encourage you to pick up a copy of this work on Wesley.

Wesley and the Men Who Followed gives a glimpse into the life of one of the most widely known church leaders to date. John Wesley was an evangelist, itinerant preacher, founder of the Methodist movement, and author. Wesley was the 15th child of a former nonconformist minister, he graduated from Oxford University and became a priest in the Church of England in 1728. From 1729 he participated in a religious study group in Oxford organized by his brother Charles (1707-1788), its members being dubbed the "Methodists" for their emphasis on methodical study and devotion. In this biography by Iain Murray the reader will find a good balance in relation to Wesley ministry and sorting out areas that were conflicts by others during his period of influence. For more information about Wesley click here.

Read Biographies - A.W. Pink 1886-1952

Reading biographies of saints who have gone before us is a way to see God's hand at work in an ordinary life that brings about great things for His glory. They can shape us and inspire us to seek God more, delight in Him more, treasure Him more. The Life of Aurther W. Pink by Murry is one of those biographies that inspires perseverance. I plan to share other life changing biographies in the days ahead.

Pink's biography, first written by Iain Murray in 1981, is here revised with the benefit of new material, including some of Pink's own re-discovered manuscripts. It is the heart-stirring and compelling story of a strong, complex character Arthur Pink's writings became a major element in the recovery of expository preaching and biblical living. Born in England in 1886, A. W. Pink was the little-known pastor of churches in the United States and Australia before he finally returned to his homeland in 1934. There he died almost unnoticed in 1952. By that date, however, his magazine was feeding several of the men who were leading a return to doctrinal Christianity, including Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Douglas Johnson (founder of Inter-Varsity) and, in book form after his death, his writing became very widely read across the world.

This blog is an out growth of reading this biography. Click this link to reach A. W. Pinks archive.