The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones: 1899-1981

This book is a re-cast, condensed and, in parts, re-written version of the author’s two volumes, D. Martyn Lloyd- Jones: The First Forty Years (1982) and The Fight of Faith (1990). Since those dates, the life of Dr. Lloyd-Jones has been the subject of comment and assessment in many publications and these have been taken into account. The main purpose of this further biography, however, is to put Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ life before another generation in more accessible form. The big story is all here.

When Lloyd-Jones left medicine, he intended only to be an evangelist in a mission hall in South Wales. No one was more surprised than he in being called to a ministry which would eventually affect churches across the world. How this happened is here explained, but the theme is the person described by F. F. Bruce: ‘a thoroughly humble man. He was a man of prayer, a powerful evangelist, an expository preacher of rare quality, in the fullest sense a servant of the Word of God.’

Behind that theme a greater one emerges. In Lloyd-Jones’ own words: ‘My whole life experiences are proof of the sovereignty of God and his direct interference in the lives of men. I cannot help believing what I believe. I would be a madman to believe anything else-the guiding hand of God! It is an astonishment to me.’

Endorsements

"I am deeply thankful that God led me to Lloyd-Jones in 1968. He has been a constant reminder: you don't have to be cool, hip, or clever to be powerful. In fact, the sacred anointing is simply in another world from those communication techniques. His is the world I want to live in when I step into the pulpit."
—John Piper

"No preacher had greater influence on me in my formative years than David Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It was his preaching which I absorbed in books, without ever hearing his voice, that brought together biblical exegesis, sound theology, insightful wisdom and pastoral care into one clear, well-focused picture."
—John MacArthur

Contents

1. ‘A Welshman Now!’
2. School-days: Tregaron and London
3. The World of Medicine
4. ‘All Things New’
5. The Call to the Ministry
6. Bethan and Aberavon
7. A Different Preaching
8. Early Days at Sandfields
9. A Leader without a party
10. A Local Revival
11. The Church Family
12. Enlarged Work
13. Leaving Aberavon
14. England and War
15. Inside the Family
16. The Emerging Leader
17. New Agencies
18. Westminster Chapel, 1943-45
19. Guidance Confirmed
20. Wales and the Summer of 1949
21. A Rising Tide of Youth
22. Sundays in the 1950s
23. Opposition
24. An Awakening of Books
25. Unity: Ecumenical or Evangelical?
26. Crisis Years
27. Controversy
28. The End of an Era
29. A World Pulpit
30. The 1960s
31. ‘Dying…He Worshipped’