Chapter 1: Step Up
1. “Keep on Making a Way” words and music by Percy Gray Jr.
© 2002 Saved Children's Music administered by BMI and Slickey Music/BMI. Recorded on Live … This Is Your House Disc 1
© 2003 The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, licensed and marketed by M2 Communications.
2. Cited in Footprints for Pilgrims (1915; reprint, Sunbury, PA: Believers Bookshelf, 1970), 35.
3. For one explanation of this, see “The Conquest and the Ethical Question of War,” TNIV Study Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 294.
4. New King James Version.
Chapter 2: An Assignment Just for You
1. Cited in Footprints for Pilgrims (1915; reprint, Sunbury, PA: Believers Bookshelf, 1970), 41.
2. Wayne and Diane Tesch, Unlocking the Secret World: A Unique Christian Ministry to Abused, Abandoned, and Neglected Children (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1995).
3. James H. Olthuis, Keeping Our Troth (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986), 133–34.
Chapter 3: The Place of God's Blessing
1. New American Standard Bible.
2. George Müller, A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Written by Himself (Muskegon, Mich.: Dust and Ashes Publications, 2003), 730, italics added.
3. Cited in Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 21.
4. Andraé Crouch, “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power,” © 1966 Manna Music, Inc.
5. Kenneth Morris, © 1957 Martin and Morris Music, BMI.
Chapter 4: The Forgotten One
1. “Fill My Cup, Lord,” © 1959 by Richard Blanchard. Assigned to Sacred Songs (A Div. of Word, Inc.).
2. His rash vow that resulted in his daughter's untimely death; see Judges 11:30–40.
3. His later craftsmanship of a golden ephod that became a national idol, thus reinstating the false worship that had gotten Israel in trouble in the first place; see Judges 8:22–27.
4. D. L. Moody, Glad Tidings: Comprising Sermons and Prayer Meeting Talks Delivered at the N. Y. Hippodrome (New York: E. B. Treat, 1876), 227.
5. Frank Bartleman, in one of the early editions of The Apostolic Faith, a newspaper published intermittently starting in 1906 by the Azusa Street Mission, Los Angeles.
6. “Our War Congress,” Christian Mission Magazine, Sept. 1878; cited in an email from Capt. Heather Coles, Salvation Army Heritage Center, London, U.K., 2007.
Chapter 5: Lesson from the Bayou
1. All quotations in this section are from the book Cain's Redemption by Dennis Shere (Chicago: Northfield, 2005).
2. Cited in Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 21.
Chapter 6: Not So Fast!
1. Cited in Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 68.
Chapter 7: Wholehearted for the Long Haul
1. See, for example, http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/06/frank-buckles-americas-last-living-world-war-i-vet/. Accessed April 29, 2008.
2. New King James Version
3. Cited in Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 83.
4. Cited in the “Patrick Hamilton” entry by J. D. Douglas, The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978), 449.
Chapter 8: “What's Up with This?”
1. For the full account, see Fresh Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999), 121–26.
2. E. M. Bounds, The Necessity of Prayer, in The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990), 35.
3. See chapter 4 of my book Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997), 53–66.
4. G. V. Wigram, cited in Footprints for Pilgrims (1915; reprint, Sunbury, PA: Believers Bookshelf, 1970), 17.
Chapter 9: The Enemy Within
1. Cited in Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 59.
2. This sermon constitutes a chapter in Treasury of the World's Great Sermons, compiled by Warren Wiersbe (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1993), starting on page 120.
3. Andrew Murray, Humility (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1961 edition), 15.
Chapter 10: Objection Overruled
1. Horatius Bonar, Words Old and New (1866; reprint, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 278.
2. J. H. Merle d'Aubigné, The History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Book 2, Chap. 1, Par. 1 (1835 ed.). www.lgmarshall.org/Daubigne/daubigne_refhistory02_01.html. Accessed April 2, 2008.
Chapter 12: Supernatural Peace
1. http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0397/AEisenstaedt.html. Accessed April 2, 2008.
2. E. Stanley Jones, Abundant Living (Nashville: Abingdon, 1942), 74.
Chapter 13: A Word to Remember
1. Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1998), 122.
2. “God's Promise,” words and music by Luther Barnes, © 1997 International Atlanta Music, Lubar Music/BMI; recorded on CD and DVD I'm Amazed … LIVE, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, © 2006 The Brooklyn Tabernacle, marketed by INO Records.