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D.L. Moody faced a crisis at sea, and God confronted him with a life-changing decision.
The evangelist converted mass evangelism.
Moody was not an educational theorist or systematizer, but he was a popular educator par excellence.
He was the catalyst for two of America's largest religious book publishers.
Excerpts from a sermon that Moody preached at least 183 times.
(Resources listed alphabetically, by title, within each category. with asterisks denote those still in print.)
The five that people ask most often
How an awkward country boy with a grade-school education became the greatest evangelist of the Gilded Age.
Moody's common sense and quick wit led to many pithy sayings. A sampling.
Three great Bible truths were central to all of Moody's preaching.
Revivalist with a common touch
Hobby Lobby retail chain donates defunct Massachusetts campus to proposed C. S. Lewis College.
The quote that went viral after Graham’s death actually came from D. L. Moody—but he probably wouldn’t mind.

October 2, 1187: Muslim general Saladin captures Jerusalem from the crusaders (see issue 40: The Crusades).

October 2, 1792: A dozen English ministers form the Baptist Missionary Society "for the propagation of the Gospel among the Heathen, according to the recommendations of [William] Carey's Enquiry" (see issue 36: William Carey).

October 2, 1800: Slave and lay preacher Nat Turner is born in Southampton County, Virginia. Inspired by biblical texts, the deeply religious and ascetic ...

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