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Francis Schaeffer
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Bitesize Biography Author Mostyn Roberts ISBN 9780852347928 Pages 112 As Mostyn Roberts reviews the life of this man of God, variously called a prophet for his prescient analysis of trends in culture that explains where we are today, an apologist, and even a philosopher, he shows us that fundamentally Schaeffer rejoiced, to the end, in bein...

John Newton
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Bitesize Biography Author John Crotts ISBN 9780852349083 Pages 144 The people who know John Newton's name often only know one or two things about him. They recognize that he authored one of the most popular hymns of all time, 'Amazing Grace'. They possibly know that he was a slaveship captain before he wrote that hymn - even in this introdu...

Ulrich Zwingli
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Bitesize Biography Author William Boekestein ISBN 9781783970827 Pages 164 'William Boekestein’s ‘bitesize biography’ of Ulrich Zwingli is both very informative and enjoyable. It will provide the reader with a knowledgeable introduction to the life and work of one of the towering figures of the Reformation.' Luca Baschera, Research Fello...

Thomas Cranmer
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Bitesize Biography Author Colin Hamer ISBN 9780852347737 Pages 128 Thomas Cranmer, one of the Reformation's most famous martyrs, can accurately be described as the architect of the Church of England. His involvement in England's break with the Roman Church was crucial. This 'warts and all' biography is, however, honest about Cranmer's weakn...

John Knox
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Bitesize Biography Author John Murray ISBN 978085234759 Pages 112 John J.Murray shows how Knox, as well as modeling the Church in Scotland, laid the foundation of an extraordinary forward-looking new state, way ahead of the time in such matters as education, social welfare and democracy. The Reformation had its effect in all spheres of national...

George Muller
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Bitesize Biography Author Joan Ripley Smith ISBN 9781783970193 Pages 128 It has been well over a century since the death of George Muller (1805-1898), and sadly, fewer and fewer of each ensuing generation have been acquainted with the remarkable story of the man who believed unreservedly in the power of prayer. In his lifetime, Muller was known...

Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma
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Author Sharon James ISBN 9780852349168 Pages 288 Previously published as My Heart in His Hands, this book is fully revised and updated and is the best modern biography of Ann Judson available. If you only read one biography this year, read Ann Judson: a missionary life for Burma. If you're going through trials or suffering you need to read this...

Hugh Latimer
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Bitesize Biography Author Richard Hannula ISBN 9780852349304 Pages 128 Through thirty years of ministry, the voice of Hugh Latimer was the clearest and most influential in England for the great truths of the Reformation. His simple gospel message, and condemnation of the church's false teaching, was despised by the church authorities, but a...

Girolamo Savonarola
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Bitesize Biography Author Douglas Bond and Douglas McComas ISBN 9781783970018 Pages 144 Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1452. It was the year Leonardo daVinci was born. Across Europe, it was a time of development and change: Gutenburg's Bible came off the press two years later, Luther would be born when Savonarola was 31. Bot...

John Hooper
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Bitesize Biography Author Pete Sullivan ISBN 9781783970094 Pages 158 Tucked away in St Mary's Square in Gloucester stands an imposing Victorian monument to the memory of John Hooper (c1500 -1555), second Bishop of Gloucester and one of the first Protestant martyrs during the reign of "Bloody Mary". Drawing from a wide range of sources - particu...

J. Gresham Machen (Bitesize Biographies)
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Bitesize Biography Author Sean Michael Lucas ISBN 9781783970575 Pages 130 Dubbed at his death "Doctor Fundamentalist," J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was one of the most significant defenders of evangelical Christianity in the early twentieth century. Raised in American Presbyterianism, he wrestled deeply with the challenge of Protestant Mode...

Fine Gold from Yorkshire
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9781783971947 Pages 160 What does the man who took the gospel to China's millions have in common with the creator of Wensleydale cheese, or with the inventor of the Crow's Nest, or the man responsible for the abolition of slavery throughout the Commonwealth, or with a member of the famous Bronte family? Each one (along wi...

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Bitesize Biography Author Eryl Davies ISBN 9780852347607 Pages 128 As Geoff Thomas observes, 'Every Christian should know more about the life of Dr Lloyd-Jones'. This concise, and easy-to-read, biography gives an excellent overview of "The Doctor" and is a good place to start. Dr Lloyd-Jones, as the author observes, knew the Lord and it...

William Farel
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Bitesize Biography Author Jason Zuidema ISBN 9780852349540 Pages 128 Jason Zuidema has written a thrilling account of William Farel's life and challenges the classic thinking that a worn-out Farel handed over to Calvin in Geneva. Although Farel was some twenty years older than Calvin he was an intellectual giant and continued to be a major ...

Charles Hodge
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Bitesize Biography Author Donald Fortson ISBN 9780852349274 Pages 128 In 1872 Professor Charles Hodge celebrated fifty years of teaching at Princeton Seminary in New Jersey. For a half century, Dr Hodge had trained almost three thousand ministers, missionaries, and professors who had carried the gospel message throughout the United States a...

Through Many Dangers
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Author Brian Edwards ISBN 9780852344903 Pages 368 A common sailor at the age of eleven and press-ganged onto a man-of-war at nineteen, John Newton experienced the thrill of action against French warships and the cruel lash of navy discipline for desertion. Rejecting God and morality, Newton entered the slave-trade, became a slave himself and, b...

Samuel Rutherford
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Bitesize Biography Author Richard Hannula ISBN 9781783970186 Pages 140 Samuel Rutherford is among the most loved authors of the Puritan period: his letters, written largely to members of his congregation at Anwoth in Galloway, Scotland are still available, having never been out of print since 1664. C H Spurgeon said of those letters, Hold off ...

Martyrs of Malatya
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Author James Wright ISBN 9781783971138 On April 18, 2007, three men gave their lives for Jesus Christ. Two Turkish Christians and one German . . . began their day simply wanting to spend time with local men they thought genuinely wanted to study the Bible. Instead, five hostile young men met their kindness and hospitality with betrayal and tre...

Audrey Featherstone, I Presume?
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Author Tim Shenton ISBN 9780852346785 Pages 242 God takes an ordinary lady (by her own admission), a 'nobody', and uses her for his glory and the extension of his kingdom. A gripping story of conversion, experiences during the second world war and her adventures during twenty five years in the Congo. Here is danger, excitement, romance, fea...

Anne Bradstreet
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9780852347140 Pages 176 At eighteen, Anne Bradstreet left England for the New World in search of religious liberty. Despite many hardships, she became famous as America's first published poet. A devoted wife and mother, she was a woman of deep spiritual convictions, seeing the Christian life as a pilgrimage with a bet...

My Sunflower Girl
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Author Dyfan Williams ISBN 9781783972593 Pages 154 "To read My Sunflower Girl is to overhear the soliloquy of Dyfan Williams, husband, father, and pastor, as he walks through the dark valley where shadows fall around him from the death of his beloved daughter Megan. As in King David’s great psalm there is a confession of deep faith (‘The Lo...

A Pilgrim Path: John Bunyan's Journey
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9781783972135 Pages 178 Faith Cook has been a lover of John Bunyan’s work for many years, first encountering him through The Pilgrim’s Progress in preschool years. Later she discovered through his ‘Complete Works’ his many other books and ten years ago she wrote Fearless Pilgrim, a detailed biography of Bunyan. Now she h...

William Gadsby
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Bitesize Biography Author Ian J Shaw ISBN 9780852349311 Pages160 Most people encounter William Gadsby through singing the small number of his hymns that are still in general use. In Strict Baptist circles his name continues to be held in high esteem for his work as a preacher, for his hymn book, and as founder of the Gospel Standard magazin...

Thomas Chalmers
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Bitesize Biography Author Sandy Finlayson ISBN 9781783970728 Pages 152 Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was the first Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland's General Assembly and much, much more. He dominated the life of the Scottish Church in the mid-19th Century and his influence was felt much further afield, through his visionary thinking, wri...

Joseph Addison Alexander
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Bitesize Biography Author Allan M Harman ISBN 9780852349601 Pages 128 Joseph Addison Alexander spent most of his life in Princeton, graduating from the College at the age of seventeen, amazing his fellow students with his abilities. He was intensely studious, full of personal piety, gifted with an amazing memory and was a formidable linguis...

George Whitefield
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Bitesize Biography Author Michael Haykin ISBN 9781783970650 Pages 128 George Whitefield was born at the Bell Inn, Gloucester, England, on December 16th 1714, so the release of this addition to the Bitesize Biography series commemorates his 300th anniversary. And it is fitting that Michael Haykin should be the author: he is the series editor of ...

Augustus Toplady
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Bitesize Biography Author Douglas Bond ISBN 9780852347935 Pages 128 What is one to make of a man described as a strangely compounded, peculiarly constituted, and oddly framed? It conjures up in the mind an image of Stevenson's Mr. Hyde, or Shelley's Frankenstein, or Hugo's Quasimodo. But such is J. C. Ryle's (1816-1900) description of Augus...

Zachary Macaulay
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Bitesize Biography Author Faith Cook ISBN9780852347843 Pages 160 What a life! What superlatives can do it justice? The name is strong and affirmative ... Zachary Macaulay. It rolls on your tongue - say it aloud. Then see how this man's three-score years and ten were lived. What a journey he took from a Scottish manse in Inverary, Argyllshire, t...

William Perkins
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Bitesize Biography Author Joel Beeke and Stephen Yuille ISBN 9781783971114 Pages 120 William Perkins (1558–1602) earned a bachelor’s degree in 1581 and a master’s degree in 1584 from Christ’s College in Cambridge. During those student years he joined up with Laurence Chaderton, who became his personal tutor and lifelong friend. Perkins and ...

Renee of France
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Bitesize Biography Author Simonetta Carr ISBN 9780852349090 Pages 128 Renee of France is little known today, but this fascinating and often controversial woman was a correspondent of Calvin. She loved the Reformation, but in sixteenth century Italy such a position could not be lightly held. Add in a husband (the Duke of Ferrara) who serve...

Matthew Henry
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Bitesize Biography Author Philip Eveson ISBN 9780852347997 Pages 128 The name of Matthew Henry will always be associated with his famous commentary. All over the world there are Christians who still appreciate the value of his work. For three hundred years his exposition of the biblical text, devotional comments, practical wisdom, warm the...

An Open Door
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Author Maud Kells and Jean Gibson ISBN 9781912373642 Pages 264 'I was aware of a slight unease. In all my years at the hospital I had never had a hoax call. Suddenly out of the darkness ran two masked figures in camouflage clothing pointing something shaped like a gun, covered in leaves. "You won't scare me. You won't get the better of me" flas...

Life and Death on a Contested Island
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ISBN 9781946466952 Author N. L. Fix Pages 153 Life and Death on a Contested Island is a memoir detailing experiences of a young American instructor and newspaper editor on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Invited to teach business and language classes at the remote island Institute, she quickly found herself in a cold and hostile environment where her ...

The Subversive Puritan
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Author Mostyn Roberts ISBN 9781783972470 Pages 258 How shall we live together in the light of our very deep differences? Christian author Os Guinness has said this is the greatest problem facing the United States today and the same could be said for 'the West' as a whole. Can a seventeenth-century Calvinist contribute anything? In recent years...

The Nine Day Queen of England
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9780852346136 Pages 282 …‘Lady Jane called out in a clear voice. “Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Then with a stroke, swift, sharp and terrible, Jane’s short life was ended. Like the Apostle Paul she had fought a good fight, finished the course and kept the faith. Henceforth there was laid up for her a crown o...

The Story of Emily: A Proverbs 31 Woman
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Author Diana Lynn Severance ISBN 9781934952313 Pages 140 Born in the youthful years of the American republic, Emily saw and experienced the grief and anguish of the Civil War and lived almost to the dawn of the 20th century. Emily’s story, based largely on her diary, provides a window into the Christian life of this pastor’s wife, mother of fi...

Surprised by God
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9781783970087 Pages 192 There is no change more radical in the life of any person than that which comes about when they come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Every part of their being is touched, and at the deepest level. In these thrilling accounts, Faith Cook takes individuals from the sixteenth to the twentieth cent...

Stars in God's Sky
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9780852346969 Pages 160 In her typically engaging and enthralling style, Faith Cook shows us how God graciously works in individuals' lives. Here are 'short biographies of extraordinary ordinary Christians'. Among others here we find the encouraging and challenging short stories of John Foxe and Fanny Guinness. Dr Da...

Seeing the Invisible
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9780852344071 Pages 160 First appearing as articles in Evangelical Times, Seeing the Invisible tells the stories of ten ordinary Christians who exercised extraordinary faith in their God. None of these individuals is a famous name in Christian history, but their faith in, and devotion to, Christ encourages and inspire...

Out of the Shadows
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Author Faith Cook ISBN 9780852347492 Pages 146 Nine short, inspiring biographies of lesser-known Christians who made a difference. Perhaps best known is Patricia St John (the final chapter) to whom Mrs Cook pays a personal and moving tribute to someone who showed such kindness and who she knew personally. William Philip (St George's- Tron,...