Biography

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal . . ...

Product Description Vaughn uses never-before-published journals and personal interviews to trace Elliot's transition as a young woman who dealt in "certainties" to a woman who faithfully trusted the "impenetrable mystery" between God's will and...

This book is the true story of a converted drunkard, a coal miner from Cornwall, England. It is the story of the happy life he lived after his conversion, of his inspiration by the Lord to win souls for Christ and build chapels for their fellowship and...

Publisher's Description Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith? As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small...

Product Description A gripping story of moral courage in the face of evil! In this definitive and highly readable abridgment, Metaxas details previously unknown facts about Bonhoeffer's life---including his decision to return to Germany and his...

No reserve! No retreat! No regrets! Learn how the Lord used the life of William Borden to enlist a generation of young men and women for His service! Not since the days of David Brainerd, missionary to the American Indians, has a young man been so...

The remarkable story of a life transformed! Prison Fellowship founder Colson shares details of his search for meaning while serving as special counsel to President Nixon during the Watergate investigations. Learn how he found purpose not in success and...

Each volume of this three volume set contains professionally written biographical sketches of the British Particular Baptists from 1638 - 1910. This set is edited by Dr. Michael Haykin of the Heritage Baptist College and Seminary in Ontario. Volume 1...

Among the men chronicled in this first volume are Hanserd Knollys, John Bunyan, John Gill, Benjamin Keach, William Kiffin, John Collett Ryland, and Benjamin Beddome. Volume 2 includes, among others, Abraham Booth, John Ryland, Jr., Andrew Fuller, and...

Volume 1 revised, the British Particular Baptists, for the most part a new book in the series. Originally released over 20 years ago, this new volume has been completely reworked to include only the figures selected from the seventeenth century.

"Southwestern Virginia has produced great men in every walk of life-soldiers, statesmen, and scholars, but no man has lived between Roanoke and Bristol, and between the Blue Ridge and Flat Top Mountains who has made a deeper impression on the whole...

Southwestern Virginia has produced great men in every walk of life - soldiers, statesmen, and scholars - but no man has lived between Roanoke and Bristol, and between the Blue Ridge and Flat Top Mountains who has made a deeper impression on the whole...