Biography

This book tells the story of how God gave Chris Killen a new life in Christ, and a new challenge on earth. It is to see other addicts rescued from the peril he had once been in – snatched back from the brink, as he had been. For good. And for God.

Think of the Maze Prison–what memories flood your mind? Can anything good ever come out of the Maze? If nothing else, there is one person, Thomas Martin. This book recounts a thrilling story of transformation. Martin is now a happy man, involved in a busy ministry for God.

C. H. Spurgeon is commonly called the Prince of Preachers, a title he rightly deserves. At the height of his ministry in the heart of London during the 19th century, his sermons were published in daily newspapers both in England and the U.S. Now 100 years later after his death, this book gives an indepth look at Spurgeon and incorporates many of his own writings in this book.

The thrilling account of the life and work of Ulster’s best-known evangelist, the Rev. William Patterson Nicholson. It was a sad day for the devil and a glorious one for the Kingdom of God when W.P. Nicholson was converted and called to do the work of an evangelist.

A summary of the life and conversion of spiritual giants of years past. Augustine, Luther, Latimer, Calvin, Henderson, Cameron, Bunyan, Wesley, Whitefield, Brainerd, Carey, Livingstone, Spurgeon, and others.

May the reading of these biographies inspire and inform you so that you may follow in their footsteps and reach out to people still without a knowledge of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour.

Life events and ministry of the famous preacher.

Andrew Bonar (1810-1892) was a Scottish preacher and author. He was a great friend of R.M M’Cheyne, whose memoir he wrote. After ministries in Jedburgh and Edinburgh, he was ordained at Collace, Perthshire, and remained there after the disruption, preaching in a tent until a free church was built.

Born in South Africa (1828-1917), Andrew Murray was sent to study in Scotland and Holland. When he returned to South Africa as a pastor and evangelist, he led a revival that shook the country. Murray was the most influential leader of his own church in the 19th century and a model of faithfulness for ours.

The biography of Dwight L. Moody

This book contains a wide variety of gripping testimonies, as told to the author by the converts themselves. They come from all walks of life, revealing the reach of Ian Paisley’s ministry.

The Rev. Dr. Henry Cooke dominated Irish Presbyterianism for more than forty years. He emerged to fame as a “Mr. Valiant for Truth,” a champion of orthodoxy in his debates with Rev. Dr. Henry Montgomery in the Arian Controversy, which brought about the expulsion of those who held Unitarian beliefs.

A paper missionary sounds a most unlikely medium for a sophisticated age. The “Every Home Crusade” uses three tons of paper every day, to produce millions of gospel publications in multiple languages every month, and has hundreds of distributors in more than 100 countries to whom the literature is sent freely.

Modern day youth have been misled throughout their educational careers with the false notion that science must be based entirely on naturalism and that the Bible is not relevant. The truth is that most of the great founding fathers of modern science were Bible-believing men and practicing Christians. Eleven of these great men are profiled in this book.
In these short biographies, we have presented a distilled version of each man’s scientific accomplishments as well as the evidence of his Christian faith. These testimonies demonstrate that true scientists can also be genuine Christians, and that faith in God and in the authority of the Bible is not a sign of inferior intellect. 

A Great Cloud of Witnesses Volume 1 has 20 biographies

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This is the story of J. Hudson Taylor’s life

This book chronicles the life of John Bunyan, the famous author of Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War and several other titles. These timeless works are still popular today due to the spiritual fervor and compelling style in which they were written. This book gives a closer look into the life of this great dreamer.

The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis

Hendrickson Classic Biographies presents a one-volume abridgement of Wesley’s multi-volume journals. The Heart of John Wesley’s Journal presents a remarkable life, recorded and examined in real time by Wesley himself.

James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was a Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and personally baptizing an estimated 50,000 converts.

The story of 5 great missionary servants of God: The stories of David Brainerd, William C. Burns, John Eliot, Henry Martyn and John G. Paton.

The Life of John Brown is the story of an orphaned shepherd boy who rose to become the revered minister of Haddington in south-east Scotland and the theological professor of his denomination. Though his life’s labours were inextricably linked with one town, the influence of John Brown of Haddington spread worldwide through his writings, especially his Self-Interpreting Bible. This book contains his own account of his life. To this, his youngest son, Dr. William Brown, has added family recollections, letters and some of his father’s choicest short writings.

As he drew near the end of his life, John Brown exclaimed, ‘Oh! What must Christ be in Himself, when He sweetens heaven, sweetens Scriptures, sweetens ordinances, sweetens earth, and sweetens even trials! Oh! What must Christ be in Himself!’ Modern readers will taste some of the same Christ-derived sweetness as they meditate on The Life of John Brown with Select Writings.

This is the moving story of God’s redeeming and restoring grace to one who wrote the following epitaph for himself: John Newton, Clerk, Once and infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy. Formerly published as But Now I See, this biography contains much valuable first-hand material from Newton himself. Indeed, considerable use is made of his Diary and Letters. His pre-conversion days, his call to the Christian ministry, and his time at Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth are all covered. This is no arid record of the past. Besides being a worthy memorial to the life and work of John Newton, this biography will also encourage those who love the gospel to consecrate themselves to the Master’s service as Newton did.

The Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar gives a panoramic view of one of the most fascinating periods of Scotland’s church history.  But foremost it is the record of God’s work in the life of a man who represented all that was finest in the evangelical life of that country.

The story of the life and ministry of Archibald G. Brown

Andrew Bonar’s biography of M’Cheyne conveys the fragrance of his life that no later writer could ever recapture.  Being dead, M’Cheyne yet speaks and it may be doubted whether any Christian can seriously read these pages without having an example of the power of godliness stamped upon their conscience in a manner that will remain with them for all their days.

A man of brilliant intellect, Duncan is often only known today by the anecdotes which memorialise the eccentricities which marked his life- as is often true of men of genius.

Iain Murray writes on a number of Christians he specially admires.

This outstanding study is not only an exceptional biography; it also serves as a classic illustration of how the church today can and should learn from its past history.

John Wesley – Oxford don and itinerant preacher, intellectual and evangelist, author and man of action, upholder of the Church of England yet founder of another world-wide denomination, disagreeing with George Whitefield, yet preaching his funeral sermon-truly a many-sided man.

This book tells the heroic story of William Carey’s passionate advocacy of world mission.

This book traces the main lines of Spurgeon’s spiritual thought in connection with the three great controversies in his ministry.

Preface and Reflections By Jonathan Edwards. This book changed the life of Henry Martyn; in his own words: David Brainerd. Oh! Blessed be the memory of that beloved saint! No uninspired writer ever did me so much good.

It was the increasing conviction that martyrs, though dead, can still speak to the church, which led Bishop J.C. Ryle to pen these pungent biographies of Five English Reformers last century.

In his book, A Scottish Christian Heritage, Iain Murray describes how for 300 years the school of evangelical Christianity changed Scotland as a nation. Passing on the evangel of the Reformation, and growing stronger in persecution, it turned a people to the Bible, and finally gave many of its best sons and daughters to the ends of the earth. For fidelity, joyful perseverance in hardship, and improbably advance, the record remains a witness to the faith that overcomes the world.

The compelling interest of this account lies in the way it draws on contemporary records-many of these Christian leaders being authors as well as men of action. Murray’s narrative explores this rich heritage and underlines its remarkable relevance for our own day. While not a Scottish church history, this is a gripping introduction to the many glorious successes, and some of the painful failures of the church, from the days of John Knox to those of Horatius Bonar. Explaining this panoramic tapestry are the words of Knox’s own commentary, ‘God gave his Holy Spirit to simple men in great abundance’.

For those who want a work of quiet scholarship, Philip is not their man. But where there is a desire for the evangelical flame-for words that burn, and reach heart and soul- this volume will clearly show why the gospel can turn the world upside down.

This volume, first published in 1853, contains a selection of his correspondence, edited by his son-in-law and biographer, William Hanna.

The life of Elijah has gripped the thought and imagination of preachers and writers in all ages. His sudden appearance out of complete obscurity, his dramatic interventions in the national history of Israel, his miracles, his departure from the earth in a chariot of fire all serve to that end. Judgement and mercy were mingled throughout Elijah’s astonishing career.

George Muller’s life may be described as a primer on the miracle of answered prayer. When Muller felt called by God to care for orphans, he had only a few cents in his pocket. Without ever asking anyone other than God, he received over $7,200,000 dollars (in 1800’s money) through prayer alone.

Apart from a short period of missionary service in India, Milne spent his whole ministry in Perth as a pastor and evangelist. Bonar’s account of one who lived close to Christ remains a guide to what the churches need in every age.

No Reserve. No Retreat. No Regrets.

What a mighty man of God John Jasper!

The Baseball Evangelist

I wanted to see what God did with this common man who was totally yield to his Lord Jesus Christ.

A Life of Amy Carmichael

This book paints a vivid picture of Wesley’s spiritual journey – his active life and the message he preached.

Books that have shaped our lives

A Great Cloud of Witnesses Volume 2 has 20 biographies

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man. – Brother Yun a Chinese Christian his story

This is a magnificent two-volume set, calculated to stir the soul and to find a place of honour and affection in every Christian who loves to read the thrilling history of the Scottish church!

Twenty years with Rev. William A. Sunday gives me the right to say that I knew the real Billy Sunday, not the man publicity created but the flaming apostle of Christianity. He was too real to be pictured by any of the labels mistakenly put on him. So a friendship born of a score of years gives birth to this book. It is the attempt to suggest a true picture of his personality. His simplicity was so genuine, his utter devotion to his work so complete, and the results so far-reaching that I feel this generation should have a record of his dynamic personality from one who knew him. Such is the basis for the chapters which follow.

A biography of J. Frank Norris

A biography of the missionary who pioneered the Gospel to the country of Tibet.

What does it look like to live a life fully committed to God and his kingdom? Despite having different callings in ministry, Charles Spurgeon, George Müller, and Hudson Taylor all stand as titans of faithfulness — trusting in the sovereignty of God in the midst of affliction, hardship, and loss — and their examples of steadfast confidence in God continue to motivate and inspire God’s people, even today. The seventh book in John Piper’s popular The Swans Are Not Silent series, A Camaraderie of Confidence highlights how the amazing lives and legendary ministries of these three men continue to illustrate what it means to hold fast to the promises of God.

“Augustine never thought of God without thinking of his sin, nor of his sin without thinking of Christ.”

When asked why he never wrote a book, John ( Rabbi ) Duncan (1796-1870) replied, ‘I cannot write, I m just a talker.’ Duncan had a genius for expressing profound thoughts in brief epigrammatic sayings. What I have sought to do in these pages is take the aphorisms of his conversations, as recorded in several original sources and present them here in one book, believing that they will greatly enrich the hearts and minds of all who read them.

The amount of clear thought packed into these pages is altogether out of proportion to their number. Duncan’s sayings have a near unique combination of depth and brevity. He exemplified the standard he expected of other: ‘I would advise everyone to be very careful to use no more words than are necessary to express thought. Whenever a man becomes cloudy in his words, be sure that his thought has become shadowy too.’ On Duncan’s death, William Knight remarked, ‘With him has perished a breathing library of wisdom.’

The touching story of one of England’s favorite hymnwriters

Faith Cook has drawn on unpublished and little-known sources to produce this comprehensive new biography.

In this her debut publication, Mary Kate Gygax captures the true story of Alberto and Norma Garcia, Mexican nationals who followed God’s call to become missionaries in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Within these pages, the miraculous nature of God’s handiwork and provision despite hardships, poverty, and tragedy is more than evident as the author recounts the story of the Garcia family and their decision to follow God’s will even if it meant ministering on the other side of the earth.

The Life and Legacy of Charles Haddon Spurgeon