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131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Catherine of Siena Mystic and political activist 1347-1380 “[You are] not to love Me for your own sake, or your neighbor for your own sake, but to love Me for Myself, yourself for Myself, your neighbor for Myself.” —from a divine vision to Catherine… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Hudson Taylor Faith missionary to China 1832-1905 Barbour Publishing Paperback at Amazon.com “China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women…. The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
David Livingstone Missionary-explorer of Africa 1813-1873 “[I am] serving Christ when shooting a buffalo for my men or taking an observation, [even if some] will consider it not sufficiently or even at all missionary.” With four theatrical words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”—words journalist Henry… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Columbanus Irish missionary to Europe 543-643 “Away, O youth, away! Flee from corruption, into which, as you know, many have fallen.” —an abbess’s well-heeded advice to Columbanus The handsome and hot-headed Columbanus was one of Western Europe’s most successful evangelists ever. According to Columbanus’s… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Fox’s Book of Martyrs
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the… Continue Reading “Fox’s Book of Martyrs”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
William Miller Mistaken founder of Adventism 1782-1849 “We have passed what the world calls the last round of 1843…. Does your heart begin to quail? Or are you waiting for your blessed hope in the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ?” In recent years, we… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Richard Allen Founder of the AME church 1760-1831 “The plain and simple gospel suits best for any people.” Richard Allen and his associate Absalom Jones were the leaders of the black Methodist community in Philadelphia in 1793 when a yellow fever epidemic broke out.… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Francis Asbury Methodist on horseback 1745-1816 “Under the rush of his [Asbury’s] utterance, people sprang to their feet as if summoned to the judgment bar of God.” —Biographer Ezra Tipple Some today might call him a workaholic. Or maybe just utterly dedicated. English-born Francis… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
131 Christians Everyone Should Know
John Wesley Methodical pietist 1703-1791 “About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.” In late 1735, a ship made its way to the New World… Continue Reading “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
I just searched Fox’s Book of Martyrs and found that it is in the public domain and can be shared freely. I thought it would be a great series for this blog. Here is the link if you want to follow along yourself First… Continue Reading “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs”