Title: A Treasury of Gary W. Long's Writings
Description: You have opened a collection of poems and stories written by Gary Wayne Long, late pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Springfield, Missouri, and co-founder and President of Particular Baptist Press. In the stories and poems in this collection, you can see that the Lord instilled in Brother Gary a purpose for writing. Brother Gary had an underlying and overriding message he wanted to convey. He loved the Lord Jesus, he loved His Word, and he wanted people to know Him in a saving way. Many of his stories and poems are either explicitly biblical or make a spiritual point. He viewed life and the world through a biblical lens, and he sought to convey the greater spiritual reality behind even seemingly mundane events. Brother Gary wanted people to think spiritually, to look for the spiritual point, to see God's hand, and to find God Himself in the experiences of life. Music was also important to Brother Gary. He loved music and that glorified and honored the Lord Jesus, and pointed sinners to Him as their only hope. He especially loved the grand old hymns of the faith, written back when the writers were theologians, not entertainers, as he used to remind us. Some of his poems are hymns that he wrote to some of the old familiar tunes, 33 of which are included in volume. -- Introduction.