This is a great triple biography by John Piper, examining the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton.
This is a great book to be an introduction to John Piper’s writings, and also to the three missionaries that are discussed in the book. The book goes through the trials and persecutions these three missionaries, separated by the centuries, went through to bring the gospel to England, Burma, and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). It then goes on to go through the fact that they used all of these trials to glorify Christ in their lives.
Here is a sample of this great book:
“In other words, a fruitful life and an eternal life come from dying like a seed and hating your life in this world. What over¬whelms me, as I ponder this and trace the lives of William Tyndale, John Paton, and Adoniram Judson, is how strategic it was that they died so many times and in so many ways before their lives on earth ended. This is no rhetorical flourish. The Bible speaks this way, and these followers of Christ knew it.”
I was already aware of the work of William Tyndale, but not so much of John Paton and Adoniram Judson. I immediately went out and bought John Paton’s autobiography, which I’ve started and am enjoying very much.
You can read this book for free on PDF, at the Desiring God website.
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