WASHINGTON, DC — Impressed by the long-lasting martyrology, Foxe’s Guide of Martyrs, Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale spent greater than 5 years researching, excerpting and including to this iconic work in an effort to produce a completely new ebook which artfully integrates the historic Foxe’s textual content and modernizes it for a brand new technology. The New Guide of Christian Martyrs is on sale now (Tyndale Home).
Co-authors Moore and Pattengale remind us that together with a King James Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress, Foxe’s was one of the crucial fashionable books in Early America and England. They conclude that “in a time of rising, world persecution we imagine it’s time for a brand new technology of Christians to study once more in regards to the sacrifices of the 2000 years of Christians that got here earlier than them. Our prayer is that there’s a duplicate of The New Guide of Christian Martyrs in each Christian dwelling.”
This inspiring memento honors the heroic sacrifice of recent martyrs—together with these from the final a number of years—for his or her Christian religion, whereas additionally exhibiting how their actions mirror a protracted line of courageous Christians.
The ebook is groundbreaking in two respects: it offers substantial, historic (and typically unflattering) context for the trendy reader and the ebook pulls collectively highly effective tales of Christian sacrifice from the Catholic and Orthodox Christian communities to enrich the historic Protestant accounts in Foxe’s Guide of Martyrs.
“Integrating Catholic and Orthodox tales into a piece impressed by Foxe’s Guide of Martyrs was as soon as unfathomable—it’s groundbreaking,” mentioned Moore and Pattengale. “Foxe’s historic work emerged within the aftermath of the reformation and displays the vicious battle among the many reformers and Catholics; we’ve been devoted to that historical past however we’ve fastidiously chosen and built-in tales within the fashionable period of Christian sacrifice from all Christian communities as a result of we’ve all realized that when somebody decides to kill a Christian for his or her religion they merely search for a cross.”
The ebook highlights key martyrs from the primary century to the twenty-first century, from Europe to Africa and from Asia to the Americas to encourage Christians across the globe.
Supported by new first-hand interviews with surviving members of the family and pals of recent martyrs, lots of their tales have been unknown till now.
“This ebook is very necessary as a result of . . . we’re witnessing within the twenty-first century, Christian persecution not often seen because the first century,” mentioned Moore and Pattengale. “Many individuals don’t understand that in the present day hundreds of Christians are dying merciless deaths all through a lot of the world. There have been, in actual fact, extra martyrs within the final century than in all of the earlier Christian centuries mixed.”
The New Guide of Christian Martyrs has already obtained large ranging acclaim:
Reward for The New Guide of Christian Martyrs
“Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale have created a labor of affection that’s positive to be a timeless useful resource for generations to return.”
— CHRIS HODGES, senior pastor of Church of the Highlands and writer of Out of the Cave and Pray First
“The power, unfold, and sustainability of our religion is because of women and men whose lives and deaths licensed the reality of the gospel. Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale chronicle such a cloud of witnesses. Could we in our studying be impressed to do the identical.”
—BISHOP CLAUDE ALEXANDER, senior pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, NC
“This work glorifies God by means of telling the tales of the martyrs of our religion.”
—DOUG CLAY, basic superintendent of the Assemblies of God
“Scripture compels us to recollect properly when nice sacrifices have been made. The New Guide of Christian Martyrs helps us just do that.”
—SANTIAGO “JIMMY” MELLADO, president and CEO of Compassion Worldwide
“Wow—what a ebook! God bless you, Johnnie and Jerry. Christians will likely be motivated as they learn the testimonies you’ve shared so clearly and successfully.”
— JAMES ROBISON, founder and president of LIFE Outreach Worldwide, Fort Value, Texas
“The persecuted present us the trail to actually stay as disciples of the one true God.”
— MICHELE BACHMANN, dean of Regent College and former member of US Congress
“an on the spot basic”
— REV. SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ, president of the Nationwide Hispanic Christian Management Convention
“The New Guide of Christian Martyrs is a profound reward.”
—JOHN STONESTREET, president of the Colson Heart for Christian Worldview
“I couldn’t cease studying these accounts—many by means of tears…a should for each family.”
—JO ANNE LYON, basic superintendent emerita of The Wesleyan Church
“As a brand new believer throughout my freshman 12 months at college, I found Foxe’s Guide of Martyrs… this basic has been resurrected. Get it . . . hold it shut . . . learn it!”
—O. S. HAWKINS, former pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and writer of The Joshua Code and the Code collection of devotionals
“Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale … recount the compelling tales, each throughout historical past and in our personal time.”
—D. MICHAEL LINDSAY, president of Taylor College
“These sacred information remind us that persecution is current, not previous; it’s to be anticipated; it’s not irregular; and it wears many various faces in our world in the present day.”
—DONALD SWEETING, chancellor of Colorado Christian College
“Simply because the testimonies of those martyrs have influenced my life, allow them to contact you”
—ELMER L. TOWNS, cofounder of Liberty College
“The epic battle between darkness and light-weight will solely intensify as we method the climactic Day of the Lord. Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale have reminded us all to be sturdy within the Lord … The New Guide of Christian Martyrs chronicles the ability of a coronary heart absolutely surrendered to the love of God and tempered with the zero sufferer mentality of Christ, in overcoming the forces of darkness.”
—JAMES E. WARD JR., founder and pastor of INSIGHT Church in Tinley Park, IL, and writer of Zero Sufferer: Overcoming Injustice with a New Angle
The New Guide of Christian Martyrs (Tyndale Home) by Rev. Johnnie Moore and Dr. Jerry Pattengale is on the market now wherever books are bought.
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