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Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was a South African Christian pastor and an internationally known author of numerous Christian books. This enduring classic, published in 1896, was written to assist believers to pray in the right way. The book is based on the way that Christ taught his disciples to pray, and the style is simple and engaging. The chapters are titled, "The Model Prayer", "Pray to Thy Father in Secret", "In Spirit and in Truth or The True Worshippers", and "The Only Teacher". 

G. Campbell Morgan was one of Britain's prominent Bible scholars during the early 20th century. Morgan was a prolific writer and teacher, and the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London from 1904 to 1917 and 1933 to 1945. The work examines God’s dealings with man, from Genesis to Revelation.

A.B. Simpson, the founder of an Evangelical Protestant denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, remains a popular author among all Christian denominations. His book Danger Lines in the Deeper Life explores some of the conflicts that Christians encounter in trying to maintain a spiritual life, with reference to the book of Judges. Unlike in his usual inspirational writing, Simpson here points out the flaws of the institutional church and the compromises it reaches with worldly challenges.

In this sermon, the preacher A.B. Simpson warns that mankind has become so much in love with itself that it is in danger of overlooking God. He argues that the devil is trying to get the supernatural out of the Bible, out of the church, and out of individual Christian lives in an attempt to reduce religion to a human science. Against this trend, stands God’s revelation of the supernatural, the author points out. 

Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a popular speaker and pastor, founder of a major evangelical denomination, and author of more 70 books. This work discusses emblems from scripture, like Emblems from the Story of Creation, Emblems from the Story of the Fall, Emblems from Antediluvian Times, Emblems from the Life of Moses, and many more.

A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was a Canadian preacher and author. He founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance, which promoted global evangelism. This book examines and explains different facets and approaches to the Holy Spirit.

This comprehensive work by E. M. Berens starts with the primordial deities of the Greeks and the myths on the origin of the world, followed by the Olympian, sea, and minor divinities; nymphs; nature spirits; and Roman divinities.   

Canadian Evangelical A.B. Simpson has delivered many iconic sermons on deepening our religious life and the healing character of faith. In Days of Heaven Upon Earth, Simpson applies these two concepts in one book. He offers us some thought-provoking meditations on every day of the year, so we can better incorporate religion in every moment of our lives. 

Evangelical A.B. Simpson applies his keen mind to 19th-century society in a way that us still sharp to this day. He draws a clear distinction between the life we imagine for ourselves and the life we should lead. As a society driven by self-indulgence and ego, Simpson teaches us that all the vanity is a mere distraction from the true life with Christ in us. 

But God is considered to be one of A.B. Simpson's best works. In this book, he discusses his feelings on some of the books within the Old Testament. 

Canadian preacher and theologian A.B. Simpson devotes these 10 chapters to the significance of the cross and resurrection of Christ. The cross of Christ has not only reached the status of the ultimate symbol of martyrdom but also carries our own liberation from sin. Simpson takes this a couple of steps further and expands on the presence of the cross in everything, both earthly and divine, and how its mark defines our greater destiny. 

In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he'd enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper. This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major broadcasting corporation. In Football Is a Numbers Game, Matthew Coller chronicles this improbable start-up tale with unprecedented access.