![]() Murray’s work makes constant use of the hitherto unpublished material, and is able to present Dr Lloyd-Jones’ own view of his life and ministry. While some saw him as ‘the modern Moody’, and others as ‘the last of the Calvanistic preachers’, Iain H. ![]() This volume traces the unforgettable events of his first pastorate, his wider ministry in Wales (where, by 1933, the press reported, ‘he draws thousands to hear his message in all parts of the Principality’), his first visits to North America, and finally his settlement at Westminster Chapel, London,on the eve of World War II. I count it the highest honour God can confer on any man to call to be herald of the gospel’ The pastor of Tri-City Baptist was Lamar Mooneyham. The building stood where the parking lot of Home Depot on Mt. It was a large church of 328 members and the sanctuary could seat more than 500 people. The one thing of which Dr Lloyd-Jones was sure was that his settlement amid the industrial depression of South Wales was no sacrifice: ‘I gave up nothing. Over 35 years ago, Cornerstone Bible Church existed as Tri-City Baptist. Some regarded his change of career as romantic, others as foolish. They enjoy creating, planning, and assisting in outreaches. They joined CA in 2005, and began leading the Youth Group. Meeting in a church youth group, they married in 2004 and moved to Durham. He also served on the Bible Translation Committee for the NLT. Brett and Kelly are originally from Williamsburg, VA. He holds a B.A., 1967, Wheaton College B.D., 1970, Princeton Theological Seminary Ph.1975, University of Durham, England, and has served in various pastorates as well as being on faculty at Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions since 1975. From his rural Welsh background to St Bartholomew’s Hospital (where at the age of 23 he was Chief Clinical Assistant to Sir Thomas Horder, the King’s Physician), then, suddenly at 27, to a struggling Calvinistic Methodist Church in Aberavon, South Wales, he appears successively as schoolboy, dairyman’s assistant, political enthusiast, debater, doctor, and finally Christian preacher. In 2011 Brett was ordained as an Elder of CA before being installed as Senior Pastor in April 2018. ![]() When Martyn Lloyd-Jones, physician, preacher and Christian Leader, died in 1981, after more then 40 years in London, few knew the remarkable story of his formative earlier years which, in the authorised biography, is now told for the first time. ![]()
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