What A Great Read!

I'm reading a fantastic book right now and want to recommend it highly: George Whitefield, God's Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Arnold A. Dallimore. Every night for the past week, I have looked forward to the quiet moments when I get to sit alone with this magnificent book.

Years ago, Dr. Arnold Dallimore wrote a landmark two-volume set on Whitefield which has become legendary in Christian circles. One pastor-friend told me last year that Dallimore's set on Whitefield was highly influential in his becoming a full-time minister--- and previous to that a seminary professor who visited my study commented that he regarded the Whitefield biography set to be the most important thing he has ever read (next to the Scriptures, of course).

Yet, while the material is excellent, many people simply cannot digest such enormous volumes. And so in 1990, Dr. Dallimore released a condensed one-volume edition which recounts many of the most important events of Whitefield's life, while remaining brief and readable in 200 pages.

Can you imagine a preacher being heard clearly from two miles away? Can you fathom a man preaching forty hours or more every single week....for nearly 30 years? Can you believe one man preached in person before nine-tenths of the population of the American colonies--- all before age fifty-five?

George Whitefield was that legendary preacher, and this book tells his story in marvelous fashion.