Bible Characters

A collection of twelve vivid biographical sermons from one of the 19th century's most electrifying evangelists. D.L. Moody was not a scholar of the ivory tower variety; he was a preacher who breathed fire and mercy into ancient stories, and this book captures that raw, conversational power. Here are the lions' den and the handwriting on the wall, the exile in Babylon and the dream of a golden image. Here too are figures less frequently sermonized: Enoch, walked straight into heaven; Lot, that tragic compromise; Jacob, wrestling with God until dawn. Each sketch crackles with the urgency of a man who believed these stories were not history but alive, speaking directly to anyone willing to listen. Moody's gift was making the familiar strange and the strange intimate. Whether he's dissecting Nebuchadnezzar's pride or the quiet faith of Joseph of Arimathea, he finds the human drama beneath the theology. This is devotional writing that refuses to bore, stamped with the personality of a revivalist who could hold a crowd in the palm of his hand.