Tuesday, October 18, 2011

New "Christian Heroes: Then and Now" Biographies

The following are all written by Janet and Geoff Benge:

Count Zinzendorf: Firstfruit
A biography of the German nobleman who protected the Moravians from persecution in eighteenth-century Germany.

Brother Andrew: God's Secret Agent
A biography of the Dutch missionary Brother Andrew who became noted for smuggling Bibles into communist-controlled Eastern Europe.



John Wesley: The World, His Parish
A biography of the Anglican clergyman John Wesley who, along with his brother Charles and George Whitefield, founded the Methodist movement.

C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller
A biography of the author of The Chronicles of Narnia who converted from atheism to Christianity.



Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels' Den
Relates events in the life of the Dutch woman who survived imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps to become a Christian missionary.

Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold
A biography of the Scottish missionary and runner who won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics and went on to do missionary work in China.



George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
A biography of English evangelist and philanthropist, George Muller, who established orphanages in Bristol that ultimately cared for thousand of children.

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