Power and Sympathy of Christ

by J.C. Ryle

This book, The Power and Sympathy of Christ, contains six studies on John chapter 11 one of the most remarkable chapters in all the New Testament. It deals with themes most useful and interesting to all professing believers.
Just like the rest of the human race, Christians are 'born to trouble as the sparks fly upward' (Job 5:7). They live in a dying world and are just as likely to suffer sickness and death as their fellow men and women. Year after year the gaps in their family circles increase; heaven seems to become more full, and earth more empty. That is why, according to J. C. Ryle, it is never too soon to look steadily at such great subjects as sorrow, sickness, death, the grave, and the power and sympathy of Christ.
This little book, drawn from Ryle's larger work, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, will help you do just that.

Genres: Theology

160 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2018

About the author

(John Charles Ryle) Ryle started his ministry as curate at the Chapel of Ease in Exbury, Hampshire, moving on to become rector of St Thomas's, Winchester in 1843 and then rector of Helmingham, Suffolk the following year. While at Helmingham he married and was widowed twice. He began publishing popular tracts, and Matthew, Mark and Luke of his series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels were published in successive years (1856-1858). His final parish was Stradbroke, also in Suffolk, where he moved in 1861, and it was as vicar of All Saints that he became known nationally for his straightforward preaching and firm defence of evangelical principles. He wrote several well-known and still-in-print books, often addressing issues of contemporary relevance for the Church from a biblical standpoint. He completed his Expository Thoughts on the Gospels while at Stradbroke, with his work on the Gospel of John (1869). His third marriage, to Henrietta Amelia Clowes in 1861, lasted until her death in 1889.

Reviews

[Bradley Somers · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great and thoughtful little book. I love seeing how the Puritan writers read, thought, researched and wrote about scripture. This little book captures those elements. It was also an appropriate read for the Lenten season.

[Grant Fawcett · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good little commentary on John 11

[Peter Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent meditation on John 11 and a source of great encouragement in testing times.