The Sweet Dropper

Justin Taylor’s blog reminded me that yesterday marked 29 years since the death of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, one of the best and most influential preachers of the 20th century. I first encountered the preaching of Dr. Lloyd-Jones through college friend Brian Habig, who had to wait a ridiculously long time for a Starkville Christian bookstore to receive a special order copy of the Banner of Truth paperback of Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ Evangelistic Sermons. I borrowed the book, read one sermon, returned it, and bought my own copy the next weekend in Jackson off the shelf of the RTS bookstore. During my last two years in college and the next couple of years after I devoured a number of volumes of his sermons (on Romans, Ephesians, on the Holy Spirit, on spiritual depression), the collection of  lectures entitled The Puritans: Their Origins and Their Successors, and listened to recordings I borrowed from the Mount Olive Tape Library.

Below is a good ten-minute overview of his life and ministry:

For biographies, see the following from Iain Murray, his official biographer and former assistant:

• D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years 1899-1939
• D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Fight of Faith 1939-1981
• Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace

You can hear The Doctor preach online for free at Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recording Trust.