Only Trust Him

Life Messages of Great Christians

by Dwight L. Moody, Judith Couchman

For Dwight Lyman Moody, trusting God was the only way to live. This devotional is based on Moody's sermons from his days as an evangelist. Forty selections teach about the glory of the gospel, the way to repentance, a powerful spiritual life, the passionate work of bringing people to God, and our hope of heaven.

187 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Dwight Lyman Moody was a predominant evangelist, author, and publisher. Raised on a farm in Massachusetts, he moved first to Boston, where he converted to evangelical Christianity in 1856, and then to Chicago, where he prospered in business. He gave up business in 1860 and engaged in missionary work with the YMCA (1861-73).

He founded Moody Church and preached in the slums, emphasizing literal interpretation of the Bible and the need to prepare for the Second Coming. In 1870 he teamed up with the hymn writer Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908), and they began a series of highly popular revival tours in Britain and the U.S. Moody founded the Northfield School (1879), the Mount Hermon School (1881), and the Chicago Bible Institute (1889; now the Moody Bible Institute).