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The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (SANS 3) is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries—without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are examples of remarkable grace. John Piper looks at the lives of...

Spirit than most people’s today who talk more of self-esteem than self-humbling. Ballast Below, Full Sails Above—at the Same Time One of Simeon’s missionary friends wrote about a time in 1794 when a certain Mr. Marsden entered Simeon’s room and found him “so absorbed in the contemplation of the Son of God, and so overpowered with a display of His mercy to his soul, that he was incapable of pronouncing a single word,” till at length he exclaimed, “Glory, glory.” Only a few days later the missionary
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