He earned his Masters of Divinity from Westminster Seminary California, and is pursuing his Doctorate of Ministry through Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina. He is an editor for Modern Reformation magazine and the author, contributor, or editor of several books, including The Christian’s True Identity and What Happens When We Worship. Jonathan also serves the wider church through his hymns, which have been published in various hymnals, and can all be found at www.hymnsofdevotion.com.

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God mercifully continued to work in his heart, forming a desire for the ministry of his Word. He serves as a pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley. He is married to Alissa, and God has blessed them with two sons and a daughter. He has authored several books, and is grateful to preach, to teach, and to write as opportunity provides.

Jeremy is book review editor for the Banner of Truth magazine.

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He is a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte) and a doctoral candidate at The Master’s Seminary (Los Angeles). He and his wife, Melinda, have six children.

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Hurrion was a minister in Denton, Norfolk (1696-1724). His ministry at Denton continued through twenty-eight years, reported as ‘very successful, and he was esteemed a great blessing by all the Dissenters, in those parts’. In 1724 he was faced with the difficult decision of a call to the church at Hare Court, Aldersgate Street, London, which he eventually accepted. He was one of several Nonconformist preachers to take part in the Lime Street Lectures, which were initiated to promote and defend ‘the most important doctrines of the gospel’.

John Hurrion died on December 31, 1731, in his fifty-sixth year.

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He and his wife Sarah have five children.

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Piper completed a doctorate in New Testament Studies at the University of Munich, West Germany in 1974. Upon completion, he taught biblical studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota between 1974-1980. In 1980, John Piper became the Senior Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis Minnesota, where he ministered for almost thirty-three years.

John Piper is the author of more than 50 books and now serves as lead teacher for Desiring God, where more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching material is available for free. He and his wife have been blessed with four sons, a daughter, and twelve grandchildren.

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A native of Ayrshire in south-west Scotland, he was the loving husband of Di, with whom he had six children. The desire of his heart was fulfilled when he went home to his Saviour early in June 2014.

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He became Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh in 1860, and was one of a number of competent conservative theologians who had remained in the established church after the Disruption of 1843. Crawford served as the Moderator for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1867.

In 1874 he delivered the annual Baird Lectures, and these addresses were published as The Mysteries of Christianity. Prior to this, his other major writings were The Fatherhood of God (1866) and The Doctrine of Holy Scripture Respecting the Atonement (1871).

Crawford died in Genoa, Italy, in October 1875 but was buried beside his wife in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.

T.J. Crawford is the author of The Mysteries of Christianity.

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He is a member of the Church of England’s General Synod., and currently serves on the Faith and Order Commission, the Liturgical Commission, and the Council for Christian Unity. Andrew’s main research explores Anglicanism and Evangelicalism from the 18th Century to the present.

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Rhett became a Christian when he was a teenager. Following this he went on to study at Bob Jones University and earned a B.A. and M.A. in Bible and a Ph.D. in Old Testament Interpretation. His dissertation was entitled Discerning Truths of Holiness: The Theology and Message of Leviticus 11-15. He then studied apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary.

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He is now a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and still preaches regularly.  The reason for his (and others’) departure from the Church of Scotland is drawn out in his A Sad Departure, published by the Trust in 2015.  Other publications include a book for teenagers, Messages from Grandad, and a Christmas devotional, Come And Behold Him (Christmas Through Different Eyes).  He contributed a regular newspaper column, ‘It Makes You Think’ for the Banffshire Journal for 26 years, and more recently has edited Why I Am not an Atheist: Facing the Inadequacies of Unbelief, published in 2013, and Why We (Still) Believe in 2017.

David is married to Nan and they have two sons who are pastors, another son who died suddenly at the age of 41, one daughter, and six grandchilden. They live in Forfar, Scotland, and are members of Broughty Ferry Presbyterian Church.

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After his initial theological training, he returned to Australia to pastor Geelong Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, to which he was ordained and inducted in March 1962.

After doctoral studies at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (1964-66), Allan began his long career as a Professor of Old Testament, first at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh (1966-74), and then back in his native Australia at the Reformed Theological College, Geelong (1974-77). While at the RTC he taught part-time in the newly re-started theological education programme of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, following the departure of all of the previous faculty when the Uniting Church came into existence in 1977. This led to his appointment as a professor at the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, serving there from 1978 until his retirement in 2001. He was the Principal at PTC from 1982 until 2001, and maintains the connection with it as a Research Professor. His work in theological education was recognised by the award of an honorary doctorate (ThD) from the Australian College of Theology in 2003.

He has preached and lectured throughout his ministry, both in Australia and overseas, at places such as the Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, and Kosin University in Busan, South Korea.

Allan has written a number of commentaries on Old Testament books (Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Amos). He also has a strong interest in history, and The Story of the Church, by himself and Dr A M Renwick, has been a standard introduction to church history. He has a special interest in the history of biblical commentators. This led to the writing of a biography of Matthew Henry, and also to the preparation for publication of the 29 sermons on the covenant of grace in Matthew Henry’s own handwriting that are in his possession. More recently he has published a biography of Joseph Addison Alexander of Princeton.

His mission interest is shown by his editing, with an introduction, of the narrative by Andrew Bonar and Robert Murray M’Cheyne of their visit to Palestine in 1839 (entitled A Mission of Discovery: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Evangelism).

He edited the Reformed Theological Review, now the oldest theological journal in Australia, between 1988 and 2013.

Allan and his wife Mairi live on a rural property near the city of Geelong, Victoria.

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Born in 1952 in Sunderland, in the North East of England, he spent his earliest years at Seaham Harbour, a small town in the Durham coalfield, where his father worked at Vane Tempest Colliery. The family moved back to Sunderland for the sake of his schooling, and he attended Bede Grammar School for Boys before going up to Queen’s College, Cambridge in 1970 to read History.

At the age of fourteen (February 1966) Phil ‘went forward’ at a meeting in Bethesda Free Church in response to the preaching of the gospel. He thinks he was probably truly converted at that time, although he had problems with assurance of salvation for some time –

because my focus was all on what I had done that night in 1966 instead of on what Christ had done for me at Calvary, and it was only with the passage of some years that my faith became secure and settled. Reading Lloyd-Jones’ volume on Romans 5 titled “Assurance” was itself an enormous help to me in that area.

After graduating MA from Cambridge he began teaching History at a comprehensive school in Peterlee, south of Sunderland, later moving on to lecture at a tertiary college in the town. In 1976 he married Barbara, and became involved in the youth work of Sunderland Free Church; he also found himself increasingly in demand as an ‘occasional’ preacher. Challenged as to whether he should take this up ‘full time’, he took the four-year ministers’ training course run by the Evangelical Movement of Wales (1981-85). After helping his own church in a period of vacancy, in 1988 he was called to the then newly planted church in Lancaster, which he still pastors.

Phil is a visiting lecturer in Church History at London Theological Seminary. He is a member of the conference committee for the Westminster Conference – to which he has regularly contributed – and Consulting Editor for Grace Publications Trust. He has authored a number of devotional commentaries on New Testament letters.

Phil and Barbara have three sons.

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Mark is a lover of the Puritans, and his doctoral dissertation was entitled, ‘Why Heaven Kissed Earth: The Christology of the Puritan Reformed Orthodox Theologian, Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680)’. He has authored and edited several books, including A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life; and Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest?. In 2015 the Trust published his Knowing Christ.

Mark is married to Barb and they have four children.

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Media Gratiae is Latin for “the means of grace.”

Fallen man receives all the blessings of salvation out of the eternal fountain of the grace of God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ and through the operation of the Holy Spirit. While the Spirit can and does in some respects operate immediately on the soul of the sinner, He has seen fit to bind Himself largely to the use of certain means in the communication of divine grace. (L. Berkhof)

In other words, Christ has fully accomplished the redemption that the Father planned, and now the Spirit is applying that grace in time to the lives of God’s people all around the world. God has appointed certain “means” to serve as the channels through which the Spirit applies that grace. The scope of the work Media Gratiae produces is meant to give aid to the church in its task of fulfilling the Great Commission by the use of those means.

We believe that the chief means of grace is God’s word. It alone has the promise of being the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:16). Paul tells us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. In doing so, he elevates the preached word of God to the foreground as the means by which God’s own voice is heard by sinners (Rom. 10:13-17). Paul’s determination to preach Christ and Him crucified is understood in light of the fact that it is the voice of our Saviour that brings dead men out of their tombs (John 5:25).

In Acts 2 we see that the early church not only gave themselves to the apostles’ teaching and prayer, but also to fellowship with one another. In addition to the crucial fellowship we experience by being committed to a local body of believers, we can also experience something of “the communion of the saints” by making use of Christian Biography. In this way we can be helped by the example of those who have followed our Lord before us, and follow Paul’s admonition to keep our eyes on those who walk according to the example we have in him.

Two lines from a hymn by John Berridge — one a statement, the other an earnest prayer — sum up the mission and hope of Media Gratiae:

The means of grace are in my hand,
The blessing is at God’s command
Who must the work fulfil;
And tho’ I read, and watch, and pray,
Yet here the Lord directs my way,
And worketh all things still.

Prepare my tongue to pray and praise,
To speak of providential ways,
And heavenly truths unfold;
To strengthen well a feeble soul,
Correct the wanton, rouse the dull,
And silence sinners bold.

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In August 1901, William and Edith Blair became missionaries to Korea under the Presybterian Board of Missions and served in Pyongyang, Korea (now in North Korea) for 40 years. During his first term of missionary service, William Blair was at the centre of the great revival of 1907, and his account of this and the events leading up to it forms the first part of the book, The Korean Pentecost and the Sufferings which Followed, published by the Trust in 1977, and reprinted in 2015. In this, Blair includes a thrilling description of how the gospel first came to Korea.

William and Edith had two daughters – Lois and Katharine. In 1932, Katharine married Bruce Hunt (both of them born in Korea) and served with him as a missionary in that country.

The Blairs came back to the United States permanently in 1940 and settled in Topeka, Kansas. After his retirement in 1947 from missionary work, William Blair served as a minister in several Presybterian churches in the U.S.

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Rob is a graduate of the University of Georgia (B.A., Philosophy, 1993) and Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1999) in Philadelphia. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees at Westminster.

He and his wife Angie (also a graduate of the University of Georgia) have three children: Emma, Lucy, and William.

Rob has authored a Study Guide for John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin.

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His upbringing in the local Congregational Church had given Douglas a familiarity with the Bible, but by the time he was eighteen, his studies were raising many questions in his mind. He was longing for a real knowledge of God, and began reading the work of scientists who were also Christians. It was by this means that he was converted in 1936, realizing ‘what was the obvious truth: to know Jesus Christ is to have eternal life!’ His wife-to-be, Eileen Rushby, was converted shortly afterwards. Removed from the Church’s membership for teaching the ‘doctrines of grace,’ Douglas began attending the Sovereign Grace Mission in Gleadless, along with Eileen.

During World War II, Douglas spent five years with 23rd Squadron, RAF, which included service in Malta and Sardinia. While in England in 1944, he and Eileen were married (on 16th August, his 30th birthday). At the end of the War, the Mission had become ‘Wycliffe Chapel’ after a change of premises, and this was to be their spiritual home, the base for their Christian service, and the environment in which they brought up their two children, Andrew and Dorothy.

After demobilisation in 1946, Douglas trained as a teacher, and obtained a post as an art specialist in Wisewood Secondary Modern School, where he taught for ten years before moving on to other appointments in Derbyshire and Sheffield. He returned to Primary Education for his last two appointments before retiring from teaching in 1978.

Following Eileen’s death, aged 77, in 1998, Douglas found himself with a ministry providing accommodation for Chinese students, and made many lasting friendships.

The Trust publishes Douglas’ autobiography.

Douglas Higgins is a man of many gifts and many interests: a sculptor and potter, as well as a painter in oil and water-colour; an engineer; a gardener and a lover of nature in all its forms; a cyclist who covered much of England by that means. In his own church, and in numbers of others, he is known as an ever-cheerful encourager and a lover of the word of God. That he should take up a ministry of care for students from mainland China when in his nineties is typical of the life God has given him . . . he has been a teacher by example as well as by word. What a privilege it is to have reached the centenary year of one’s birth and not to have outlived one’s usefulness! We thank God for a life which has been of blessing to so many. – Iain H. Murray

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A Canadian by birth, Dr Van Dixhoorn received a BA from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary, his PhD from the University of Cambridge, was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the British Academy, and was made a Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. At Cambridge (2001-2008), he researched the history and theology of the Westminster Assembly and taught on the subject of Puritanism. During this time he was ordained as a Minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has served for nine years as a pastor, first in Cambridge, and then in Virginia.

Chad Van Dixhoorn is general editor of the five-volume The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of this work.

Chad and his wife Emily have five children.

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John Brown’s renown is chiefly based on his The Self-Interpreting Bible, originally published in 1778, and to a lesser extent on A Dictionary of the Holy Bible (1769). ‘Brown’s Bible’ has often been reprinted, in America as well as in Britain. Its numerous aids for ‘the poorer and labouring parts of mankind’ included a system of marginal cross-references novel in its extensiveness. This ‘library in one volume’ became as common in Presbyterian homes as John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Thomas Boston’s Human Nature in its Fourfold State.

It could be said that Brown founded a ‘dynasty’, and many of his descendants were to become eminent ministers, scholars and public servants. In 1753 he had married Janet Thomson, with whom he had several children, two of whom, John Brown (of Whitburn) and Ebenezer, survived childhood – both of these following their father into the ministry. After Janet died in 1771, aged thirty-eight, Brown married Violet Croumbie in 1773. They had nine children, five of whom survived childhood, including William, who became secretary of the Scottish Missionary Society and author of a major work on the history of Christian missions, as well as being biographer of his father, and compiler of his literary ‘remains’ (The Life of John Brown with select writings, republished by the Trust in 2004).

John Brown died at the Associate Synod manse, Haddington, on 19 June 1787 after a long period of growing debility. He was buried four days later in Haddington churchyard.

In 1964 the Trust republished the biography John Brown of Haddington by Robert Mackenzie, but this is now out of print. There is an excellent summary of Brown’s life by David F. Wright in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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On 1 June 1864, he was drafted into the military service, and, determining at once to go to the field, he notified the officers of the Church to that effect. He was persuaded with great difficulty to relinquish his purpose, and allow a substitute to be sent in his stead. He was a man of great industry, and was actively engaged in advancing the interests of education and missions. He also did much by his writings to popularize life insurance. Beside a large number of tracts and sermons, he was the author of several valuable works including a Handbook of Revivals. Power in the Pulpit is a reprint of an article which appeared in the British and Foreign Evangelical Review (1862).

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In 1822 he was recommended to the trustees of Dartmouth College as successor to the President, Dr Dana, and he served as Dartmouth’s fifth President for 6 years before returning to the pastoral ministry at Second Congregational Church in Portland, Maine in 1828.

Tyler is famous for his polemics against the liberal Nathaniel Taylor and the New Haven theology, a view which countered the Edwardsian and Augustinian view of depravity. This became known as the ‘Tyler-Taylor controversy’. The end result was the constituting of a new seminary in 1833, first called the Theological Institute of Connecticut and later Hartford Theological Seminary. Tyler served as its first President and as Professor of Christian Theology until his death, his long and rich tenure which spanned 25 years leaving an indelible mark. Nettleton was also instrumental in beginning this new institution.

Bennet Tyler died in South Windsor, Connecticut on May 14, 1858, pre-deceasing his wife Esther by just 11 days. His work on the life of Asahel Nettleton is published by the Trust in an edition edited by Andrew A. Bonar, The Life and Labours of Asahel Nettleton.

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He is married to Fiona and they have four children.

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Apart from his distinguished academic career – he was awarded the University’s Chancellor’s Medal – he was Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church for two 4-year terms (1990-94 and 1998-2002) and has been involved in the Christian publishing industry.

Pieter Potgieter is a member of the International Reformed Theological Institute and the Theological Society of South Africa. The Trust published his booklet Victory: The Work of the Spirit in 1984.

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He is the author of Romanos, a Spanish commentary on the book of Romans.

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Following ordination, Williamson served congregations of the old United Presbyterian Church of North America (New Bedford, Pennsylvania and Fall River, Massachusetts), the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (Monticello, Arkansas), and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (Park City, Kansas – during a four-year ‘interlude’ from his new Zealand pastorates). He was received into the Presbytery of New York and New England of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) in 1955, and served Grace OPC at Fall River for the next seven years. Between 1963 and 1983, he pastored two churches in the Reformed Churches of New Zealand, before returning to the US  permanently in 1983. He then served the OPC churches in Carson and Lark, North Dakota until his ‘retirement’ in 1993. From 1993 to 1995 he helped to plant a church in Hull, Iowa, which congregation joined the newly formed United Reformed Church in 1995.

In 1992 Williamson began editing the new OP periodical for church officers, Ordained Servant. After publishing his fifty-third issue in his eightieth year, he stepped down after fourteen years in the post in 2005.

He is the author of books on worship (The Singing of the Psalms in the Worship of God, 1967), ethics (Wine in the Bible and the Church, 1976), apologetics (Understanding the Times, 1979), and biblical exposition (The Song of Songs, 1981), as well as popular study guides to the Westminster Confession of Faith (1964), the Shorter Catechism (1970), and the Heidelberg Catechism (1993). His guide to the Westminster Confession is published in Spanish by the Trust as  La Confesión de Fe de Westminster Para Clases de Estudio.

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William McDowell is the author of the Trust’s booklet The Incomparable Book. 

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Professor Zorn is a minister of the Reformed Churches of Australia. Since his retirement he continues in the work of preaching, or writing, notably in Vox Reformata, and of aiding seminaries in both Australia and the United States as a visiting Professor of Theology. His book Christ Triumphant: Biblical Perspectives on His Church and Kingdom, is published by the Trust.

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Zacharias was born in 1953 in South Dakota, the first son of Victor and Marilouise Zacharias. His father was a Baptist minister. The family moved in subsequent years to La Grande (1958-65) and Portland in Oregon (1965-75), and Anchorage, Alaska (1975-1984). His father’s final ministry was in Grande Prairie Alliance Church, Alberta, from 1984. Victor and Marilouise Zacharias died in Grande Prairie within six weeks of each other in 2010.

Bryan Zacharias spent some time in the Army prior to taking his Masters. He is married to Judy and they have four children – Brandon, Rachel, Austin, and Yaysha. He currently lives in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where he works in community rehabilitation with people who are brain-injured.

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He had an early interest in languages – having felt a call to the ministry when he was only fifteen and a student at Lowell High School in San Francisco, he thereupon started to study Greek. Following his graduation from Stanford University in 1929 (A.B.), he spent a year in Palestine where he taught school in Bethlehem and studied Syriac with a priest of the Syrian Church. During this same year, he crossed the Sinai desert with another American guided by two Arabs. The trip took a month and was made by camel. His second year abroad was spent travelling through Europe, learning more and more languages, seeing the places where Paul preached, studying in Germany and Spain, cycling through England.

After receiving the Stevenson Fellowship upon graduation from Westminster Seminary in 1935 (Th.B., Th.M.), he married Lillian Riggs Borden and made the trip to Leipzig, Germany, a honeymoon as well as an opportunity to study under outstanding scholars. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) from 1935-36 and then in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church from 1936. In 1943 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Semitic languages from Dropsie College, Philadelphia.

Language with Young was more than a routine study; it was a work of love. He had a speaking or reading knowledge of at least twenty-six languages, and most of these were self-taught. He could pursue studies in Ugaritic, speak German fluently, and preach in Spanish. He reported that he could find a use for every one of his languages in his Old Testament studies. F. F. Bruce said of him, ‘Young speedily established a reputation for himself as the most outstanding Old Testament scholar in America belonging to the older conservative school. His standard of orthodoxy was high, as was his standard of scholarship. He commanded the respect of many scholars who disagreed totally with his theological position, both because of his learning and because of his courtesy. His own beliefs on critical problems were firmly held and faithfully proclaimed, but he did not misrepresent the beliefs of others. He could always be counted upon to state them fairly and not to indulge in denunciation of those with whom he differed.’

E. J. Young’s principal works include The Prophecy of Daniel (1949), An Introduction to the Old Testament (1949), Arabic for Beginners (1949), My Servants the Prophets (1952), Studies in Isaiah (1954), Thy Word is Truth (1957) and The Study of Old Testament Theology Today (1958). He died suddenly from a heart attack in February 1968. John Murray, a former colleague at Westminster, said of him: ‘Edward J. Young adorned his Christian profession. So many were the virtues making up this adornment that it is difficult to single out any for special appreciation. But his humility was so conspicuous that no one could fail to mark it. For those who knew him more intimately his circumspect consistency was no less evident. Unassuming and reluctant to make his own voice heard he was always ready to speak out when the honour of Christ and the claims of truth demanded it. He burned with holy jealousy for the integrity of God’s Word and for the maintenance of the whole counsel of God.’

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Dr Young’s approach to theological education can be summarised by his comments following a visit to Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido, California and Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi in 1997:

My interaction with seminary teachers, preachers and church folk from different walks of life served in different ways to remind me that the most important thing of all is to know and walk with the living God. Theological training is valid and important, but it must in the end lead to knowing God himself or it can be a distraction, if not a positive hindrance, to true godliness.

This philosophy has been maintained through his current service as Director of Ezra Ministry, a research, writing and teaching ministry aimed at spiritual life and leadership development, where the emphasis is on ‘spiritual formation rather than theological education, transformation rather than information, and relationships rather than results.’

In March 2008 Dr Young was appointed Associate Principal of Grace College, South Island (a position in which he served until 2011). He relocated in April 2008 with his wife Nola and son John to take up the pastorate of Wyndham Evangelical Church in Southland, along with his new responsibilities towards the College. He remains on the Board of Governors of Grace College as Principal Emeritus, and continues to lecture (Biblical Theology & Pastoral Theology). Dr Young has been described as ‘a man of deep spirituality with a profound knowledge of both the teaching of Scripture and the history of doctrine.’

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Paul grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1993 and Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div.) in 2000. He is the author of My God Is True: Lessons Learned Along Cancer’s Dark Road and Setting Our Sights on Heaven: Why It’s Hard and Why It’s Worth It, both published by the Trust.

Paul Wolfe

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Winslow pastored a Baptist church on Warwick Road in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire (1839-1858) and in 1858, become the founder and first minister of Kensington Chapel, Bath. In 1865, the church became a Union Church (a mixture of credobaptist and paedobaptist). This may mark a change in attitude in Winslow who in 1867 left the Baptist Pastorate and was ordained an Anglican deacon and priest in 1870. For his remaining years, he served as a minister of Emmanuel Church, Brighton. In 1868 he had produced  hymn book for this very congregation. He died in 1878 after a short illness.

Winslow’s many writings include The Work of the Holy Spirit; Help Heavenward; Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul; No Condemnation in Christ; and Soul-Depths and Soul-Heights, all reprinted by the Trust.

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Ken and his wife Cathy (the former Catharine Edwards of Charleston, South Carolina) have three adult children – Miriam, Bryan and Catherine – for whom his book of lessons from Proverbs, A Father’s Gift was written.

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