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Miracle Workers, Reformers, and the New Mystics

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I really loved reading this book. It's full of historical accounts, documenting amazing supernational events surrounding real people, living real lives. I grew up in the church and was familiar with many names, but had no real understanding of who these people were or the context of thier lives. I was surprised at how quickly I read from cover to cover, bearly putting it down. I loved it and have given it as gifts since. Thanks to the author for a great work!!

I just spent the last 3 nights in GLORY HARVEST meetings with John Crowder and his wife, Lili. What awesome and sweet spirited couple who travel with their 4 young children.

Crazy man? No. Sold out radical? YES!!! Beware, though. If you have a religious spirit you will more than likely be offended by this book. He knows his church history, though, and most of the incidents he has documented will astonish you!


I can't wait for he and Lily to come back to Branson, MO again!
I highly recommend this book! You won't be able to put it down!

I read a lot of books but this book is the first one that has motivated me to write a review. I can not speak highly enough of the author and the wisdom it contains. It speaks to this generation while also encouraging those who are older that God has not passed them by. If you are hungry for more of God and dont want to settle for the status quo any longer this book may just be the one that will increase your faith and motivate you to begin again to seek and wait on God for his glory to enlarge you from the inside. The many examples of our forefathers(a lot whom I have never heard of) in the faith who've developed their relationship with God by setting time aside and waiting on him with resulting with signs and wonders following are absolutley astounding, better still we can have it too! History is someting we can all learn from but history in God has no time, is always current so dig those wells again and move forward with God. You can do it!!

I've read many books in my life, but when I read this one, I felt as though my own DNA was etched within the pages in this book. It awakened something so deeply within my spirit I don't have words to adequately express the way I felt when reading the pages.
Thank you so much for writing this book!

This is the best book i ever read. i really liked reading about the early mystics, their love for God and the miracles that God worked through them. Also, it was encouraging that we also will experience the greater works in these end times!!!

This is an inspiring, uplifting, encouraging and well documented record of past and present miraculous healing ministries and predicts what can be expected in our future. I could not put it down and will use it for reference to encourage others. We have purchased several copies as gifts for friends, as we believe this book should be on every serious Christian's book shelves.

With few exceptions, most Christians are hungry for a true move of God. Many of us read the book of Acts and we long for the presence and power of God as seen in the early Church. We want the miracles and we want the thousands of conversions but do we want to pay the price? Are we prepared for the suffering, the persecution, the murders, and the attacks from Satan and his demonic forces?

In this book, John Crowder believes we are living in Acts again. In this book Crowder presents story after story that are incredible! Angels, healings, prophetic visions, dreams, and words of knowledge are all profoundly wrote about by Crowder. The book is written to give the reader a passion for the mystical. Crowder believes that the Church history is full of people who were "mystics" such as St. John of the Cross, Madame Gunyon, and modern day people such as Todd Bentley, Bill Johnson, Bob Jones, William Branham, and Oral Roberts.

While the book is full of interesting accounts from both the life and ministry of Crowder and his New Mystics and many others, the book is lacking in biblical exegesis. Crowder rarely interacts with Scripture unless it is to back up a point or an experience. In fact, Crowder seems to me to argue against deep personal study of the Bible in favour of a mystical communion with God. For instance, when Crowder writes on prayer he teaches from the new age Thomas Merton and contemplative prayer. Crowder believes that the mystic Merton and others found a powerful tool for true praying in contemplative prayer that the Church has lost. Crowder never examines the Bible for contemplative prayer but simply favours it because of its mystical roots and where it leads. He even favours out-of-body experiences from contemplative prayer.

I can not recommend this book. It is simply not biblical. It is not biblical both because of what it teaches and the fact that Crowder does not truly dive into the Bible. I am all for what the Puritans called, "experiential Christianity" but not wild mysticism without a solid biblical foundation. There are better books on prayer (E.M. Bounds, Samuel Chadwick, John Wesley, Andrew Murray), on devotion (Leonard Ravenhill, Oswald Chambers, Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur, John Piper), and on experiencs based on the authority of the Bible (Ray Comfort, Anthony Palma, French Arrington, Douglas Jacoby) that are out there.

I must say all of John Crowder's books are good. You can't go wrong on them. John Crowder particularly to me is an outstanding writer and that is needed to accurately articulate and express such in depth history of the church weaved in with succeeding themes with clarity and eloquence. I like his "Ecstasy of Loving God" book much better than this but I knew after reading that one I would enjoy reading this one as well and I did. Let me tell you if I can read through an 300 and more page book in an few days then you got an good book. Although most of the biographies I had already heard but I wanted to hear it from the author's perspective and the message about their lives. The book is not just about biographies. The author doesn't go extensively in depth with the peoples lives like an timeline let me tell you that but he maps out an blueprint on how God is inviting us to walk in what they did and make their ceiling our floor.

This book is so enlightening! It shows how God has worked through people down through time. You can't put God in a box. He loves people who seek Him with no limitations. There are no limits to the way He expresses Himself through people.

Thick book of great reading! Stories that will inspire you to reach for more of God and more of his anointing! The ups and downs of ancient and modern Christian mystics - I love it!