D.L. Moody, the big, fun-loving, bearded, garden-tending revivalist from Northfield, Massachusetts was a man apart. In a time when it seemed like Christianity was almost stagnating in many ways across the United States and Europe, D.L. Moody was able to draw in crowds of tens of thousands.

One of the greatest examples of this comes from an event where the greatest religious men and women of the day gathered together in all their pomp, congratulating each other on their importance, and feeling the utmost confidence that they were about to experience the greatest moment in Christendom of their day, only to find themselves face to face with a tiny group of little more than a dozen people. While that same day, the uneducated D.L. Moody, who was known for his lack of eloquence, and wasn’t invited to the conference of the “most important” preachers, held his own meeting. Eight thousand people crammed into the stadium he was preaching at, with another eight outside waiting for a chance to get in.

His story is so unique, and yet because his life was cut short, dying just two years before the outbreak of the Pentecostal Revival, it is often overshadowed by the ministers who stood at the helm of the movement he very likely would have been at the forefront of.

D.L. Moody was not a perfect man, which I think makes his life’s saga even more potent, because it is a life we can all relate to. His story is powerful, and inspirational, while at the same time being a cautionary tale of the importance of maintaining our spiritual life as well as the bodies God gave us.

This volume includes a special address from R.A. Torrey, titled Why God Used D.L. Moody.

Let us learn from his victories and failures, and once again be set on fire to follow Jesus to the very end!