Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, John Paton, and Adoniram Judson

by John Piper, Bob Souer (Read by)

Overview

The fifth volume in Piper’s acclaimed The Swans Are Not Silent series illustrates powerful and enduring lessons through the missional sufferings of Tyndale, Judson, and Paton.

Jesus’ words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity’s expansion proves that God’s strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline heralds—the missionaries who willingly die a thousand daily deaths to advance God’s kingdom.

Pastor John Piper’s latest addition to The Swans Are Not Silent series focuses on this flesh-and-blood reality in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. The price they paid to translate the Word of God, to pave the way for missionary mobilization around the world, and to lead the hostile to Christ was great. Yet their stories show in triplicate how the gospel advances not only through the faithful proclamation of the truth but through representing the afflictions of Christ in our sufferings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982664732
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Series:	Swans Are Not Silent Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Piper (DTheol, University of Munich) is the founder and teacher of DesiringGod.org and the chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God, Don’t Waste Your Life, This Momentary Marriage, A Peculiar Glory, and Reading the Bible Supernaturally.

Bob Souer is a full-time professional storyteller, voice actor, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has narrated broadcast and nonbroadcast projects for corporations and ministries across North America. His voice has been heard on PBS, the History Channel, the Military Channel, and many other networks. He has also narrated radio and television programs for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, D. James Kennedy Ministries, SIM, and Compassion International.

Table of Contents

DEDICATIONLETTERPREFACEINTRODUCTIONGOD'S PAINFUL PATHFIRST BIBLEGOD'S PLANYOUR PERSECUTIONFILLING UP THE AFFLICTIONSEPAPHRODITUSFILLING UP OUR AFFLICTIONSBLOOD FOR THE MARTYRSMAY THE LORDCHAPTER 01WHATEVER IT COSTSAS I LIVETHE ONE-NOTETHE VERY FIRST NEW TESTAMENTUNDER GOD, TYNDALEHE GAVE US NEW PROSETWO WAYS TO DIEHOW ERASMUS AND TYNDALEFROM A LIGHTNING BUGTHE DIFFERENCE: CLARITYAT ROOT: A PASSION BLOOD-SERIOUS OPPOSITIONTHE BURNING FURYWHY SO MUCH HATREDTHE BIBLE MUST NOTSORROWS AND SUFFERINGTHE COLD AND FINALHE WILL EASE YOUR PAINCHAPTER 02BAPTIZED WITH THE BLOODTHE DANGEROUS AND HOPE-FILLEDOVERCOMING CRITICISMCOURAGE IN THE FACECOURAGE TO RISKCOURAGE TO FACECOURAGE TO DIETHE OUTCOME OF HIS COURAGEAWAKENING AT HOMESILENCING SKEPTICSWHERE DID THIS COURAGECOURAGE CAME FROM FATHERHIS COURAGE CAME FROM DIVINEHIS COURAGE CAME FROM A SENSECOURAGE CAME FROM CONFIDENCECOURAGE CAME THROUGH PRAYINGCOURAGE CAME FROM JOY COURAGE CAME FROM FELLOWSHIPHAVE YOU A FRIENDCHAPTER 03THE FRUIT OF AFFLICTIONDEEP FAITH IN SOVEREIGNTYTHE ROOTS OF CONFIDENCEA REMARKABLE CONVERSIONTHE PATH TO MARRIAGETHE PATH TO INDIABEGINNINGS OF SUFFERINGSPRICE OF BREAKTHROUGHDARKNESS DOES NOT LIFTFINISHED BIBLE NEW WIFEANOTHER WIFE DEATHGOD PLANNED ANOTHER MARRIAGEPLEA TO BE PARTCONCLUSIONLURE TO LEAVE HARDSHIPHOW LIKELY CRISIS MARTYRDOMDEATH OF MARTYRSWALK SOFTLY TO NATIONS