What does God require of those who seek to know and please him? The biographies of the kings of the nation of Judah, as recorded in the books of I and II Chronicles, are case studies in the pursuit of a personal friendship with God. From David, "a man after God's own heart," to Josiah, "the man who trembles at God's Word," each king reveals some aspect of the quest to know and serve God. The advantage of studying the lives of David's successors through 600 years of Judah's history is seeing how decisions in one generation led to wonderful blessings or tragic consequences in the following...

John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican priest and Oxford tutor. He and George Whitefield were the primary leaders of the Evangelical Awakening which had a profound effect on the spiritual, social, and political life of both England and colonial America. Wesley gathered converts into a network of small groups for personal accountability, behavioral change, leadership training, and the transformation of their communities. Central to his system was the "class meeting," which proved to be one of the most effective tools for making disciples ever developed. This study examines the...