Recent Posts
Lowell Brueckner

Enter your email address:


Delivered by FeedBurner

3. Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill's Personal Letters

Labels:

Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill's Personal Letters, number 3


Margaret thought that the book Ravenhill mentioned in the last item we posted was probably a book on prayer by MacIntyre. If so, I can see why he said it was the best he had read in 10 years. Ravenhill often sent us books or recommended them. They were treasures, including the one he mentions below by Dr. Machen. As you see, in the same letter, he also sent catalogues and Bible study outlines.


I will be on a trip for almost two weeks, so I wanted to post another item featuring Leonard Ravenhill’s personal letters to us, before I go. I may not have another chance until I return. Since we are entering the Christmas season, these two should fit well. They don’t need much explanation… they’re just good thoughts. What Len writes about the Scripture being of no private interpretation is immensely important. It should be everyone’s plumb line. John Wesley said, “New doctrine is false doctrine!” :

Nov. 14: I do not usually recommend a book I have not read – here is an exception (God Transcendent). A friend of mine studied theology under Dr. Machen and he still glows when he talks of him. Let me know your reaction to the book, please. Maybe some books in this catalogue will do for Christmas gifts. These outlines on Hebrews, I did for my class. They might make good winter studies for your fellowship. I have three classes to teach most weeks and so keep hopping. Have a blessed Thanksgiving. We thank Him for your love, faith and friendship…

Dec. 10: A very blessed Christmas to you. Thanks for sharing about your future ministry. (meaning our move to Europe, which we were to make in 1986) We will pray with you about it. How blessed to be able to say with the Psalmist, “My times are in Thy hands”. “The steps”, and therefore, ‘the stops’, “of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” We are not kicked around by circumstances. We are precious in His sight, though fools to the world. I have not read ‘God Transcendent’ but hope to get to it soon. My plumb line is - the Scripture is of NO private interpretation. As an old saint put it, the Bible is like a stream, where a Lamb can splash in its cool waters. It is also as vast as an ocean, where an elephant can bathe. Peace and joy be yours in the Holy Ghost…


Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

2. Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill's Personal Letters

Labels:

Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill's Personal Letters, number 2

In many of his letters, Leonard Ravenhill only wrote the day and the month, not the year, so it is difficult to ascertain their chronological order.  I will therefore concentrate on the content, rather than the chronology.

In these first presentations of the letters we received from Ravenhill, I want to firmly establish the personal side. Len felt it important, not only to impart truth, but to form relationships with people. I marvel at the number of people that he counted as friends. He had time for people and, I think, when a ministry gets so big that it doesn’t have time for people… then it is too big! The Kingdom of God is about people and God - and the relationships between them.

After our family had come to live in the US for a few years, we had established a home fellowship. One summer, we planned a trip to Mexico, to show our field of labor to some of those who attended our meetings. This took place in 1984. It was quite a caravan of vehicles, 6 or 7 if I remember right, that traveled down I-35 from Minnesota through Texas to the Mexican border. We drove on far south to the State of Oaxaca. One of the vehicles was a late-model, 4-wheel drive, which we were donating to the work.

I had proposed ahead of time a meeting with Leonard, as we would pass through Lindale, Texas, and he graciously accepted:

Read more »

Monday, November 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill's Personal Letters

Labels:

Quotes from Leonard Ravenhill’s Personal Letters


I have been reading the almost 600-page biography of Leonard Ravenhill by Mack Tomlinson. It brought to mind photos taken while Margaret and I waited with Leonard and Martha for their flight from the Minneapolis airport to Dallas. We had just finished meetings with Len, sponsored by a number of churches around the Minneapolis area.

I didn’t find the photos, but I did run across 45 letters, untouched for years, that we received from Len between 1983 and 1993. Len died in 1994. Shortly before that, Len wrote the foreword to our book, The Christ of the Apocalypse. That foreword was more than the result of a random request to a well-known author, in order to help bring the book to the public’s attention. It was born out of these years of communication, through the which, we also had many telephone conversations and a visit in the Ravenhill home, while traveling through Texas to Mexico. After sending Len a good portion of the manuscript of The Christ of the Apocalypse, I gave him a call from Germany. “I have read your work twice,” he said, “and I was just going over it the third time, when you called.”

Margaret came to know the Ravenhill´s at Bethany Fellowship Missionary Training School, where she attended classes with the Ravenhill sons, Paul, David and Philip in the 1960s. The family lived on campus. I came to know him many years later, after he spoke at Spiritual Life meetings at Crown College of the Christian Missionary Alliance. Margaret and I attended most of those meetings.

Read more »

Saturday, November 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

NEW BOOK: WE HAVE AN ALTAR

The new book has arrived from the printers and I am very anxious for people to read it. I know it will be a help in establishing new believers in the faith and, I hope, it will also prove to be a useful book for mature believers. I think, it will provide plenty of material for meditation. Please consider this book seriously. Here are the front and back cover, as well as the Table of Contents:


Click on front cover for larger view







Friday, November 09, 2012 | 0 Comments

New Book Announcement!

In the next few days, I will be making an announcement concerning the arrival of the new book in English, "We Have an Altar". I believe that this book will be profitable for all levels of Christian living, beginning with the new believer. It will help him to get his feet firmly established upon a solid foundation. He needs to know and understand what Christ's cross means to him, as he begins this altogether new walk of faith. Too many times in these days, new Christians are taught to become involved with activities and programs, but are not taught about what they have come into from a biblical standpoint. They know little of the provisions of the cross and what God seeks to do in and through them.

More mature Christians will perhaps learn also from this book, but I am certain, at least, that it will provide much material for meditation concerning, not only the substitutionary work of Christ, but also their identification with His cross. Please be waiting for the forthcoming announcement of "We Have an Altar".

In the meantime, today I am printing the Fall issue of the Call to Commitment leaflet. The title is "The Order of Melchizadek". This order of priesthood concerns you, if you are a Christian. The benefits go far beyond what I can express, but I made an effort to share with the reader what I have been able to comprehend. I intend to put much more meditation and prayer into it in the future. You will also be able to read interesting "News and Notes", which begin with a short account about four generations of ladies... my oldest sister, Ruth, my mom, my grandma, and great-grandma. I then write about a friend, Matt Luneau, and of the evangelistic efforts of people from Swanton Christian Church.


I can send this leaflet to your home. Just give me your mailing address, by sending an email to: loelmarga@telefonica.net .

                                            Four generations... all are now in heaven!
                                           




Thursday, November 08, 2012 | 0 Comments

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

  • Followers