Pressing on through Lifelong Discouragements: Lessons from the Life of A. W. Pink
A. W. Pink. (Image from WikiMedia Commons) Arthur Walkington Pink was born on April 1, 1886, in Nottingham in the Midlands of England. He died at the age of 66 on July 15, 1952, in Stornoway, on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. When he died, he and his wife Vera were virtually unknown by the religious world. Only a few people attended his funeral. The readers of Studies in the Scriptures (a magazine that he and his wife produced) could say they valued him as a teacher of the Bible, but they numbered perhaps not much more than a thousand. They felt his loss, but apart from them, he was completely unknown and unappreciated. After his death, however, for various reasons, Pink’s writings became part of the recovery of Reformed theology in the second half of the twentieth century. His book, The Sovereignty of God, is responsible for bringing many people to the conviction which he shared: that the God of the Bible doe...
