The Wartime Sermons of Dr. Peter Marshall

Dr. Peter Marshall had the soul of a poet, a God-given gift to make the Bible come alive for his listeners. Consciously and deliberately, he painted word pictures for people when he preached, a style he began in seminary when he was first preparing sermons. By the grace of God, his seminary professors didn't try to change him. Instead, they encouraged him to develop his own style. And his own it was -- unique in the annals of American preachers. Dr. Peter Marshall didn't preach to people's heads, although his sermons had plenty of intellectual content. To use his writing style, he wanted to grip the hearts of the listeners, to help them feel the reality of a living Savior, to know that Jesus loved them, and understood what they were going through. - Preface. To a nation fighting for Western civilization against Nazi and Japanese tyranny, the World War II sermons of Dr. Peter Marshall offered powerful encouragement. The Scottish immigrant who became one of America's greatest preachers, and Chaplain of the U.S. Senate before his untimely death in 1949, spoke in such an imaginative and pictorial style that the listener always felt plunged into the middle of his dramatic messages.