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The Gates of Hell (Heise)
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An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union
The gates of hell shall not prevail.
Decimated by war, revolution, and famine, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia was in critical condition in 1921. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German--Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution.
Christians in Russia had dark days characterized by defeat, but God preserved his church. Against all human odds, the church would outlast the man--made sandcastles of communist utopianism. The Gates of Hell is a wonderful testimony to the enduring power of God's word, Christ's church, and the Spirit's faithfulness.
- Author: Matthew Heise
- Pages: 520
- Hardcover
- Published in 2022
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Product Details:
- Hardcover: 520 pages
- Published: 2022
- ISBN : 9781683595953
- Author: Matthew Heise
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Matthew Heise is director of the Lutheran Heritage Foundation. Previously, he was a missionary for the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod for over a decade, serving in countries including Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia.
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The Gates of Hell helps us ... to recognize the signs of the time, so that we are not lulled by songs of the world and the devil and caught in their traps unprepared.
―V’yacheslav Horpynchuk, bishop, Ukrainian Lutheran Church
The work of Matthew Heise is a precious work not only because of historical facts and his professional approach to their understanding, but also very precious with his inclusion of testimonies of individual people in their concrete reality. They bring a quiet yet insistent call for us to remain as faithful Christians in our present times.
―Ivan El’ko, general bishop, Evangelical A.C. Church in Slovakia
