Today I received both packages from my P.O. Box.
1. The remaining last 5 books in Dr. Tong's old series...thus completing the 22-book series. Which was actually owed to me by the late Rev. David Chen. I bought these directly from Taiwan. I feel happy. Though, I wish I had the video version instead.
2. A thick 600-page book, an autobiography of Leonard Ravenhill.
I carried these to work. No time to make a round trip home. I read the book on Len.
Although I have never read any of Ravenhill's book, I was impressed by him already because of Paul Washer's recommendation I once saw on youtube.
I had also looked up a few of his quotes before, which I have included in my journal before.
As I read, on the subway train, some impressive lines caught my eyes, ie.:
"He feared the Lord so much and feared no man." Foreword by Al Whittinghill
"Hebrews 11 is a divine mandate to read Christian Biography." - John Piper, pg. 2
What caught my eyes most thus far...this really had me...
"Len's mother told him twenty years later that after the midwife left the room, she laid her hands on him and prayed, "Lord, make this boy a preacher or don't let him live." She then dressed and went to the weekly prayer meeting, taking baby Len with her. So Leonard attended his first prayer meeting when he was two hours old... pg. 4
David Matthews, Welsh preacher who also authored "I Saw the Welsh Revival", who's also lead by young Evan Roberts, preached to Walter's (Ravenhill's father) conversion.