A plainspoken follower of Jesus, Dwight L. Moody embodies passionate,
unflinching obedience to God. It’s 1860, the eve of America’s Gilded Age. A man
in a gray, woolen suit stands in a dilapidated building in Chicago’s “Little
Hell,” a slum forgotten by the world. He is surrounded by grimy children,
attentive and watchful in this makeshift school Moody established just for
them.
They are waiting for Abraham Lincoln to speak. Why America’s
greatest president and one of America’s most celebrated spiritual giants are
among the poorest of the poor is just the beginning of D.L. Moody, a biography with a novel-like narrative style that
unveils the eternal power one life can have.
This book reintroduces the unlikely accomplishments of a man
desperate to obey God’s call and shows how one committed heart can impact the
kingdom of God and the spiritual heritage of a nation.
We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences,
their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our
playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson
Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through
prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are
familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody,
Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now
living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves
better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and
desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.
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