Born of God: Sermons from John, Chapter One

The authorised biography in 2 volumes by Iain H. Murray

Volume 1: The First Forty Years 1899-1939, 416pp., clothbound

Volume 2: The Fight of Faith 1939-1981, 856pp., clothbound

When Martyn Lloyd-Jones, physician, preacher and Christian leader, died in 1981, after more then 40 years in London, few knew the remarkable story of his formative earlier years, a story told in the first volume of this authorised biography. From his rural Welsh background to St Bartholomew's Hospital (where at the age of 23 he was Chief Clinical Assistant to Sir Thomas Horder, the King's Physician), then, suddenly at 27, to a struggling Calvinistic Methodist Church in Aberavon, South Wales, he appears successively as schoolboy, dairyman's assistant, political enthusiast, debater, doctor, and finally Christian preacher.

His call to Westminster Chapel, London, in 1939, began a pastorate of nearly thirty years in the capital before his retirement in 1968, and the taking up of a wider preaching and writing ministry. The second volume traces not only his great influence in London in the fifties and sixties, but his ministry into wider circles - to the Universities, to Europe, the United States, South Africa, and, in his books, to the whole world.