Christian biographies
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Adult biographiesThe Cost of My Faith
by Jack Phillips 2021 / 199 pages RATING: Great Twenty seconds. And one decision. That’s all it took to change my life forever. So begins…
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Adult biographiesThe Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts
by Douglas Bond 2013 / 163 pages Isaac Watts was born in 1674 when the Psalms sung in the English Church were stiff and difficult…
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Adult biographiesSeeking Allah, Finding Jesus
by Nabeel Qureshi 2014 / 384 pages RATING: Great Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017) was a Pakistani-American who was raised as a devout follower of the peaceful…
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Book excerptsA passage from “The Hiding Place” I can’t manage to read out loud…
Corrie Ten Boom’s autobiographical The Hiding Place is best known for its account of her war time experiences. But one of the many powerful sections in the…
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Adult biographiesLuther in love
by Douglas Bond 2017 / 320 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Luther in Love shows us the Reformer from the perspective of his better half. The story begins…
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Book ReviewsEric’s Greatest Race
The Inspiring True Story of Eric Liddell by Tim Challies 2025 / 128 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Eric Liddell is probably best known as the man who…
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Book lists50 “Great Books”
What are the “Great Books”? There is no one list, but the term is meant to describe a compilation of classics from Western Literature. Some…
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Adult biographiesThe Watchmaker’s Daughter
The true story of World War II heroine Corrie Ten Boom by Larry Loftis 2023 / 384 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Larry Loftis is an international bestselling…
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Adult biographiesChiune Sugihara (1900-1986): a Japanese bureaucrat who saved Jews
In the mid- to late-1800s, Japan ended its long centuries of isolationism and opened to the outside world. Knowing the de facto loss of sovereignty…
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Book ReviewsKatie Luther: the Graphic Novel
Mother of the Reformation by Susan K. Leigh illustrated by Dave Hill 95 pages / 2016 Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift My daughter recently asked, “Why aren’t there more…
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Adult biographiesGospel Patrons: people whose generosity changed the world
by John Rinehart 2013 / 170 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Are you a giant? Church history is full of such people. William Tyndale translated the Bible…
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Adult biographies10 great Christian biographies
A reason to read Christian biographies is to see and be encouraged by what God has done in other people’s lives. They’re a way to…
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Adult biographiesThe Vow
by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter 2012 / 183 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is Exhibit #1 in why you should never judge a book by its movie….
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Adult biographiesThe secret thoughts of an unlikely convert
an english professor’s journey into christian faith by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield 2012 / 150 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT 13 words: Post-modern, lesbian activist, university English professor…
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Adult biographiesUnbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand 2010, 497 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT One of the least amazing things about Louis Zamperini is that he took up skateboarding in his…
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Adult biographiesA Promise Kept: the Story of an Unforgettable Love
by Robertson McQuilkin 2006 / 90 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Robertson McQuilkin served as president of Columbia Bible College and Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina (now…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobgoblins: a novel on John Bunyan
by Douglas Bond 2020 / 268 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give There are people who carry out such heinous acts and live such immoral lives that we’d think,…
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Adult biographiesMy Father’s Journey
by Harry Kleyn 2022, 411 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give A few years ago I was asked to teach a North American church history course at Covenant Canadian…
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Adult biographiesOnly When It’s Dark Can We See the Stars: a father’s journal as his son battles cancer
by John van Popta 2022, 194 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Why Lord? That’s the question 12-year-old Julian van Popta, his parents, and his siblings had to…
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Adult biographiesPrairie Lion: The Life & Times of Ted Byfield
by Jonathon Van Maren 2022 / 256 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give God works in history through people, some of whom have a particularly significant impact. In Canada,…
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Adult biographiesGod’s Smuggler
by Brother Andrew Autobiography 1967 / 288 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This is an amazing true story about God’s miraculous interventions to get Bibles to his…
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Book ReviewsCorrie ten Boom: the courageous woman and the secret room
by Laura Caputo-Wickham 2021 / 24 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give For such a short one, this picture book sure fits a lot inside. We meet Corrie ten…
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Adult biographiesOut of the depths
An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis 208 pages / 2016 by Edgar Harrel, USMC Rating: GOOD/Great/Give In 1944…
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Adult biographiesSteal Away Home: Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Johnson
by Matt Carter and Aaron Ivey 290 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is two biographies in one, about the little know relationship between the “Prince of Preachers”…
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Adult biographiesDancing Under the Red Star
by Karl Tobien 368 pages / 2006 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is American Margaret Werner’s perspective on the USSR’s forced labor camps – the Gulag – that…
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Adult biographiesCome Back, Barbara
by C. John Miller & Barbara Miller Juliani 182 pages / 1997 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is the true story of a prodigal that came back. Barbara Miller,…
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Adult biographiesRadiant: Fifty remarkable women in Church history
by Richard M. Hannula 330 pages / 2015 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give I found this book very interesting and met a lot of fascinating women. Professor Eta Linnemann…
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Book ReviewsGutsy Girls Book Two: Sisters, Corrie & Betsie ten Boom
by Amy L. Sullivan 2016 / 36 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is the true story of two Dutch sisters who knew that God could be trusted…
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Adult biographiesR.C. Sproul: A Life
by Stephen J. Nichols 2021 / 400 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Stephen J. Nichols has produced the first biography of Sproul since his death in December…
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Adult biographiesSaint Patrick
by Jonathan Rogers 2010 / 132 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give While legends about St. Patrick (385-461) abound, facts about this Irish saint are hard to come by….
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Adult biographiesSaving my assassin
by Virginia Prodan 2016 pages / 336 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give How would you respond if you were staring down the barrel of a gun held…
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Adult non-fiction3 ways of confronting the problem of diminishing attention spans through the Great Books
How many books do you finish? How many blog posts do you really read? I am guessing that you, like me, are busy and are…
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Articles – BooksWhy read biographies?
More importantly, why stop? Any Christian who reads the Bible has been already been reading biographies. Let’s start with Genesis, where we read about the…
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Adult biographiesEight Twenty Eight: When love didn’t give up
by Ian & Larissa Murphy 208 pages / 2014 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give I really enjoyed this book. It is the true story of Ian and Larissa. Soon…
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Book lists5 powerful pictures book
Julia Gonzaga by Simonetta Carr 64 pages / 2018 This is another book in Simonetta Carr’s “Christian Biographies for Young Readers” series and it is…
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Church historyRahab the whore…mother of Christ
In the house where one pays for love there arrived two young customers who had a different kind of business on their minds. They were engaged in…
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Adult non-fictionAn interview (of sorts) with “Gay Girl, Good God” author Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry is an American poet and recording artist on the Humble Beast label. Married to Preston, she is the mother of two children….
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Adult biographiesi am n
Inspiring Stories of Christians Facing Islamic Extremists by the Voice of the Martyrs 293 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The “n” in the title is…
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Adult biographies
The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Boom 1971 / 225 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This was such an encouraging story, and in so many ways. If you know only…
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Adult biographiesShocked by Augustine’s Confessions
There are many classics I mean to read in my life, but I just haven’t yet. Fortunately this summer, while laid up with an injury,…
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Book excerptsWhen gray hair meets green
**** Half his head is shaven. The middle part is green and the right side bright orange. He is clean, very clean. His red jeans…
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Book lists3 great Christian novels
If the fiction section in your local Christian bookstore is all-Amish all the time, then here are 4 recommendations of a very different sort: a…
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Adult biographiesThe Betrayal: A novel on John Calvin
by Douglas Bond 383 pages / 2009 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give If you want to get an understanding of the times Calvin lived in, this novel is…
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Children’s non-fictionMartin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World
by Paul Maier 32 pages / 2004 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Take a look at your children’s bookshelves. How many of the stories there are about the history…
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Adult biographiesThe life of John Calvin
by Theodore Beza Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This biography has two strengths. First, it is short. Because it was originally written as an introduction to Calvin’s last published…
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Adult biographiesThe Legacy of Sovereign Joy
by John Piper 160 pages / 2000 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Meet the giants! In this slim volume, John Piper tells the tales of Augustine, Martin Luther and John…
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Adult biographiesThis was John Calvin
by Thea B. Van Halsema 224 pages / 1959 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give I’ve read four John Calvin biographies and this is by far my favorite. It is…