D. L. Moody

Christian Encounters Series

De: Kevin Belmonte

Narrado por: Arthur Morey

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.

©2010 Kevin Belmonte (P)2022 Thomas Nelson

Superb historical read!

This book took me back to the reality of the 1800's, a struggling fatherless family, desires to launch out on his own, Chicago ventures resulting in the Moody Bible Institute, Civil War input, international influence for Jesus at the Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exhibition, and DL's graduation from this life, culminating at his home in Northfield, Massachusetts. I read this book soon after its publication, so enjoyed listening to it as a re"read." As an Alumnus of MBI myself, and having grown up in Chicagoland with plenty of MBI's influence, I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and would highly recommend it to anyone, especially to others who love "the school that DL Moody founded!"