Works of Andrew Murray

by Andrew Murray, B&H Publishing (Editor)

HUMILITY
The topic of Andrew Murray’s Humility, originally published in 1895, is rather straight forward from the title. While some books apply to a certain audience, Humility by Andrew Murray is relevant for all people, across all time. The minute someone thinks they have perfected their humility, they have found a new place to root their pride. And as Murray says, "The truth is this: Pride may die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you." After over one hundred years, this book remains a treasure for all Christians to discover.

THE MASTER'S INDWELLING
Andrew Murray was both an author and pastor in South Africa at the turn of the nineteenth century. The Master’s Indwelling is a collection of addresses that were given at the Northfield Conference in 1895, and later compiled into a publication in 1896. It includes a variety of topics centering on the Christian life, and the need to put God first in all things. Murray’s sermons show that all members of the church, across all time, have the same struggle with pride, and need the same encouragement towards the hope that is only available in Jesus Christ.

ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
"Our God delights in helping us. He will enable us to perfect, not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, what was begun in the Spirit." Absolute Surrender develops an understanding of the need for "absolute surrender" to God. Murray provides concrete steps for bringing about such surrender in one's life. He also describes both the fruit of surrendering, e.g. true experience of the Holy Spirit in one's life, and the different "stages" one goes through on the "path to Christian liberty." Anyone not fully experiencing Christian liberty will be enriched by Absolute Surrender.

371 pages, Leather Bound

First published October 13, 2013

About the author

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Murray was Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Murray became a noted missionary leader. His father was a Scottish Presbyterian serving the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, and his mother had connections with both French Huguenots and German Lutherans. This background to some extent explains his ecumenical spirit. He was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland, and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After ordination in 1848 he served pastorates at Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town, and Wellington. He helped to found what are now the University College of the Orange Free State and the Stellenbosch Seminary. He served as Moderator of the Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and was president of both the YMCA (1865) and the South Africa General Mission (1888-1917), now the Africa Evangelical Fellowship.

He was one of the chief promoters of the call to missions in South Africa. This led to the Dutch Reformed Church missions to blacks in the Transvaal and Malawi. Apart from his evangelistic tours in South Africa, he spoke at the Keswick and Northfield Conventions in 1895, making a great impression. upon his British and American audiences. For his contribution to world missions he was given an honorary doctorate by the universities of Aberdeen (1898) and Cape of Good Hope(1907).

Murray is best known today for his devotional writings, which place great emphasis on the need for a rich, personal devotional life. Many of his 240 publications explain in how he saw this devotion and its outworking in the life of the Christian. Several of his books have become devotional classics. Among these are Abide in Christ, Absolute Surrender, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ and Waiting on God.