How to Build a Church
By C. L. Goodell, with chapters by Mrs. C. L. Goodell and an introduction by E. B. Webb. The complete 1883 text, with study questions and NKJV Scripture references.
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“To build a church, the supreme object must be the salvation of men.” Constans L. Goodell wrote How to Build a Church after ten fruitful years at Pilgrim Church, St. Louis. Our Annotated Edition gives the complete 1883 text, newly typeset, with a new Publisher’s Foreword and study questions after the Introduction and each chapter.
By C. L. Goodell, with chapters by Mrs. C. L. Goodell and an introduction by E. B. Webb. The complete 1883 text, with study questions and NKJV Scripture references.
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“The absence of a revival, then, ought not to be regarded as our affliction, so much as our sin.” In 1823 W. C. Walton stopped waiting for revival in his Baltimore congregation and began to seek it. Our Annotated Edition gives his complete 1824 Narrative, newly typeset, with a new Introduction, notes, and six sessions of study questions.
By W. C. Walton. The complete 1824 text, with a new Introduction, notes, and study questions with NKJV Scripture references.
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Walter P. Doe’s Revivals: How to Promote Them gathered Finney, Spurgeon, Barnes, Park, Moody, Broadus, and others into one working volume for pastors. Our forthcoming edition is a selected text of that 1895 Treat printing: reset, shortened, and introduced—not a photocopy of a library scan.
Edited by Rev. Walter P. Doe. Selected from the New York, 1895 enlarged edition.
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“The aim of this volume is to aid preachers and others in promoting genuine and continuous revivals of religion.” Walter P. Doe, Preface, 1895
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