Compelling Biographies
We encourage everyone to read Christian biographies, especially pastoral, missionary, puritan, and reformer biographies. These books are warm theological reflections on God’s servants and the historical events that surround their lives. They challenge the reader to learn from what God has accomplished through His Church in the past.
Some of these biographies are popular and frequently read, especially those of well-known Christian men and women whom God, in his good providence, has used in reaching a large number of people around the world.
But there are stories of Christians who have served in quiet places and were not as well known (by the world!) – and these stories are just as riveting, just as encouraging, and just as God-honoring as any other. History is full of men and women who led ordinary lives, served in relative obscurity, but did so faithfully and with perseverance.
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Shapers of Christianity
Brief Sketches of Twelve Outstanding Christians From Across the Ages
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Nick Needham here draws pen portraits of twelve shapers of Christianity—those whose thought and writings have profoundly contributed to the way we think about our faith today. As the author notes, ‘we may well find that in becoming acquainted with them, we catch some glimpse of God’s truth and glory that was evident to them, yet […]
The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd
With Notes and Reflections by Jonathan Edwards
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Brainerd’s life is a vivid, powerful testimony to the truth that God can and does use weak, sick, discouraged, lonely, struggling saints . . . to accomplish amazing things for his glory’ — John Piper. 792pp.
John Elias
Life, Letters and Essays
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This account by Edward Morgan traces the life and ministry of Elias from his first religious impressions until the day when 10, 000 attended his funeral in Anglessey, the scene of most of his labours. 432pp.
Richard Hobson of Liverpool
The Autobiography of a Faithful Pastor
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The autobiography of a faithful pastor, who served his church in a working-class district of Liverpool for 33 years, and under whose ministry the ‘sixteen acres of sin’ were transformed. 384pp.
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Apart from a short period of missionary service in India, John Milne (1807–68) spent his whole ministry in Perth as a pastor and evangelist. Bonar’s account of one who lived close to Christ remains a guide to what the churches need in every age. 464pp.
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