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Love Worth Finding: The Life of Adrian Rogers And His Philosophy of Preaching
by Joyce Rogers
Product Group: Book
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group (2005-03)
ISBN: 0805440755
EAN: 9780805440751
Dewy Decimal #: 286.1092
Hardcover: 272 pages
SKU: 00-TEFG-0FGG
Condition: As New
Comments: Seems to be brand new. Binding very tight. Hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. No markings. No torn or bent pages.
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Customer Reviews
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A Tender Tribute
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-22
Joyce Rogers graciously shares a tender tribute to her dearly beloved husband, Adrian Rogers, in Love Worth Finding: The Life of Adrian Rogers And His Philosophy of Preaching.
Dr. Adrian P. Rogers has been a sterling example of a man of God. He was a tremendous encouragement for me to become an expositor of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God. He often explained that our life as believers is to be lived for the glory of God. As we remember the life and ministry of Adrian Pierce Rogers, may we simply express, to God be the glory, great things He has done!
I treasure my copy of this historic volume autographed by both Dr. and Mrs. Rogers at the 2005 Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. I highly recommend it!
Dr. Franklin L. Kirksey, pastor, teacher, mentor, writer, author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice
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A Labor of Love for a Great Preacher and a Great Man
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a pastor, I have always admired Dr. Rogers as a great preacher and as a man of God. This book is a labor of love prepared by his wife beginning before and concluding after Dr. Rogers' death.
We see Adrian as a bratty middle school boy who comes forward at a revival and gives his life to Christ. He goes to Bible college and marries his grade school sweetheart and begins his ministry at a student pastorate in Texas. He moves to Florida for his next church, and then suddenly and without much warning, he is courted by the mighty Bellview Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He goes there to fill the pulpit for a Sunday, and before he knows it, the congregation has voted to make him their next pastor. Adrian accepted the call and tearfully says goodbye to his Florida parish.
His 32 year ministry at Bellview saw the church grow from a membership of 8000 to a membership of 29000. He also oversaw the new church building process, and served two terms as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was largely because of his leadership that the theological direction of the SBC switched from the left to the right.
The last portion of the book consists of praises and words of encouragement about Dr. Rogers from colleagues and friends. There is also a very helpful section where Rogers describes his preaching philosophy and his commitment to the expository teaching of God's word.
This is a very good biography, although I think that it is of special interest for preachers, Baptists and admirers of Dr. Rogers. The book is well worth reading.
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Great Bio
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-07-21
This is a complete biography of Pastor Rogers. It covers every thing that one would want to know about him. I based my Masters church history thesis on this work and aced it. It is interesting and divotional. I would recommend it to Baptists and other denominations of Christian alike.
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Great for young preachers.
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-19
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The last section of this book features answers to questions that were posed to Dr. Rogers regarding preaching, pastoring and the ministry. You will find an eye opening look at how he prepared his sermons and his overall philosophy of ministry. A great tool for young preachers, or old preachers who want to go deeper.
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What Is Included is Good, but Needs More Details and Anecdotes to Be a Really Good Biographical Look at the Man's Life!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-08-04
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
LOVE WORTH FINDING: THE LIFE OF ADRIAN ROGERS & HIS PHILOSOPHY OF PREACHING by Joyce Rogers (his wife) is a pretty interesting book, but it is a little light on details. What is there is interesting, but it seems like many more details and anecdotes need to be added to be a comparable biography to other good bio books I have read.
Adrian and his wife have been a pair since the 4th grade! Adrian was a rowdy kid, tamed by the disciplines of discipleship to Christ. He played high school football, but was called to preach. He attended liberal Christian schooling and gritted his teeth to finish, since so many professors taught a doubting view of the Bible, and such. Adrian and Joyce got married, had three kids, and went from small pastoring jobs to bigger ones, until he finally got invited to Bellevue Baptist Church where he stayed and grew for 32 years. All the while, Adrian toyed with radio preaching. He made a name for himself, and Bellevue grew by leaps and bounds. He was named president of the Southern Baptist Convention three times.
The most in-depth chapter covers the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the longest chapter, and the most like other good biography books that I have read, filled with lots of details and behind the scenes information.
The rest of the chapters about the life of Adrian Rogers have some good information, but it seems like many more little scenes from his life, and others in his life, should have been included. Most chapters are pretty short. For instance, when talking about their children, there aren't enough details or funny stories about growing up. They seem to be born, have a couple of anecdotes mentioned, then they are next heard from already grown-up and with kids of their own.
The weakest chapter is a long one, containing short comments about Adrian from people who have known him. This reads like a chapter full of book cover blurbs! Lots of praise for Adrian, but little new insights. These would have fit in much better if they had all been sprinkled into the biography chapters, instead of all collected in a single chapter, perhaps.
The best chapters are a Q&A section asking Adrian questions about being a preacher. He has some interesting responses.
There is a 16 page b/w section of lots of photos.
I like listening to the late Adrian Rogers on the radio. He passed away and has been in Heaven since 2005, but his LOVE WORTH FINDING radio show continues on with replays of his many great sermons! This is similar to James Vernon McGee's radio shows, still going strong some two decades after his death!
This book is better than the more recent ADRIANISMS, which is a haphazardous collection of little sayings culled from his radio sermons and such, but they are not even sure which ones were original to Adrian, and which were borrowed or public domain sayings.
LOVE WORTH FINDING: THE LIFE OF ADRIAN ROGERS & HIS PHILOSOPHY OF PREACHING is a good way to learn a quick overview of the life story of Adrian Rogers, but I hope they go back and beef up most of the chapters, considerably, before they go into a second printing, in the future.
If you like listening to Adrian's LOVE WORTH FINDING radio shows, then you will find it interesting to learn about his life's story, in this book. You will learn the main landmarks of his life's journey, but not too many more details.
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