The Supremacy of God in Preaching

By John Piper

Book Overview

From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United States' tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache.Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than sixty previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity.This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801065046
• ISBN13: 9780801065040
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Power of Passionate Preaching

Piper applies his basic theology - "God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in Him" - to the realm of preaching. He pleas for glad preaching from pastors who have been ravished by the glory of God through the cross of Christ and are empowered by the Holy Spirit. And he presents as a wonderful model the New England pastor-theologian, Jonathan Edwards. This is not the most technical book on preaching you will ever read. But it may be the most passionate call for power in the pulpit that you will ever consider. If I was training pastors, this would be required reading for every student!

John Piper: the modern authority on the Sovereignty of God

I've read many of John Piper's books, and I have concluded that he is a passionate man, a man who truly pursues God with his life. This book reflects that. Piper applies the principle of God's Sovereignty to preaching in his usual passionate, concise style: Preaching should be God-centered because the Bible, our faith, our salvation, and our very existence are God-centered. This is a very helpful book for any person who teaches the Word of God.