Six Battles Every Man Must Win by Bill Perkins

Six Battles Every Man Must Win by Bill Perkins

An unseen war is raging for the hearts of men and threatens to destroy the warriors God created men to be. Cultural bullies are whispering dangerous messages: You are as important as your job title. Your family doesn't really need you. You are what you own. Sex will medicate your pain. Temptation is but a mouse click away, economic pressures weigh heavily, and the demands of work and family are a constant double bind. In the midst of this war, it's easy to lose your spiritual focus and feel like you've failed.

In Six Battles Every Man Must Win, author Bill Perkins offers hard-earned wisdom on how you can reset your sights and prevail in the challenges of life. With refreshing honesty, Bill chronicles his own struggles with disappointment, failure, and depression and tells how the little-known biblical story of David's band of mighty men transformed his life.

In this motivating and practical book, you'll discover how a small band of misfits and losers became warrior heroes. Bill Perkins shows how God helped him to win the battles in his own life and strive to be a mighty man of God with his eye on the target--and tells how you can, too.

William Perkins (1558-1602) earned a bachelor's degree in 1581 and a master's degree in 1584 from Christ's College in Cambridge. During those student years he joined up with Laurence Chaderton, who became his personal tutor and lifelong friend. Perkins and Chaderton met with Richard Greenham, Richard Rogers, and others in a spiritual brotherhood at Cambridge that espoused Puritan convictions. From 1584 until his death, Perkins served as lecturer, or preacher, at Great St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, a most influential pulpit across the street from Christ's College. He also served as a teaching fellow at Christ's College, catechized students at Corpus Christi College on Thursday afternoons, and worked as a spiritual counselor on Sunday afternoons. In these roles Perkins influenced a generation of young students, including Richard Sibbes, John Cotton, John Preston, and William Ames. Thomas Goodwin wrote that when he entered Cambridge, six of his instructors who had sat under Perkins were still passing on his teaching. Ten years after Perkins's death, Cambridge was still filled with the discourse of the power of Mr. William Perkins' ministry, Goodwin said. Perkins's influence as a theologian continued unabated after his death. This was due in large part to the widespread popularity of his writings. His writings were translated into several European languages and greatly influenced British and American Reformed theology, the Dutch Further Reformation, and European Pietism.

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ISBN 13	9780842382878
ISBN 10	0842382879
Title	Six Battles Every Man Must Win
Author	Bill Perkins
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Tyndale Momentum
Year published	2004-03-22
Number of pages	160
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