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Andrew Murray

4.3/5 ( ratings)
Born
May 08 1828
Died
1717 01 19171917
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. .

Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA and the South Africa General Mission , now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.

He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen and Cape of Good Hope.

Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.

Andrew Murray

4.3/5 ( ratings)
Born
May 08 1828
Died
1717 01 19171917
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. .

Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA and the South Africa General Mission , now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.

He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen and Cape of Good Hope.

Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.

Books from Andrew Murray

Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Abide in Christ: The Joy of Being in God's Presence

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Lord, Teach Us To Pray

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Absolute Surrender

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Waiting on God

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Jesus Himself

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Ministry of Intercession

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The True Vine

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Life of Obedience

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Master's Indwelling

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Practice of God's Presence

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Divine Healing: He gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of weakness – Matthew 10:1 (Murray Updated Classics Book 3)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Holiest of All

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Power of the Blood Of Christ

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Teach Me to Pray

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Living a Prayerful Life

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy

4.4/5 ( ratings)

With Christ in the School of Prayer

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Inner Chamber And The Inner Life (1905)

4.7/5 ( ratings)

The Believer's Full Blessing of Pentecost

4.4/5 ( ratings)
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