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Filling up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout history, God’s strategy for reaching unreached people groups with the gospel has often included the suffering of his front-line heralds—the missionaries who made countless sacrifices to advance the kingdom of God. In Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ, John Piper focuses on the flesh-and-blood reality of pain in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. Paying...

This is the fifth book in a collection called “The Swans Are Not Silent.” By swans I mean the inspiring lives of faithful Christians in history. They are not silent in the sense that their lives still speak powerfully for our encouragement and guidance. The terminology of swans not being silent comes from the story of St. Augustine’s retirement as the Bishop of Hippo in North Africa in A.D. 430. He was one of the greatest voices for biblical truth in the history of the Christian church. When
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