
As a missionary to China, Eric Liddell, the Olympic runner who inspired the movie "Chariots of Fire", ran the race of faith in real life. It was 1924 and the Paris Olympics had caught the imagination of the world. Eric Liddell was Scotland's national hero, their pride and joy, a certain winner...
They came from around the world, administrators, teachers, doctors, nurses, church planters and pilots. They were ordinary people in the prime of their lives. United by their love of Christ and their studies at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, these twenty-one men and women set out to bring...
For decades, Christians across the globe have watched and prayed for the persecuted church in China. Despite our genuine concern, we are often left with more questions than answers. "Acquainted With Grief" provides the fascinating account of how evangelist and minister Wang Mingdao emerged from...
An extraordinary account of the cruelty that we should know enough to expect from dictatorships but that in the case of Fidel Castro has been successfully concealed from outside observers. What set it apart from other prison memoirs is not the suffering, but its record of all out resistance ---...
The fast-paced biography of Samuel Lamb, one of China's greatest leaders.
After years of imprisonment, the repeated closure of his church, confiscation of all his possessions, this humble pastor continues to boldly proclaim the Gospel to more than 2,000 every week in Guangzhou.
As America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) spent 38 years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten and tortured, yet he never lost sight of his goal to translate the Bible into the Burmese language. Today, over...
From missionaries terrorised by the Chinese Boxers in 1900 to believers tortured behind the Iron Curtain, here is a comprehensive chronicle of those who have given their lives for the cause of Christ in the 20th century.
This is the story of Chet Bitterman, who was kidnapped by M-19 guerillas in Colombia. In 1981, Chet was a Wycliffe missionary to the Colombians, when he was captured. He seized the opportunity and shared Christ with his kidnappers. He was killed, but left behind a witness to the power of the...
China's Christian Martyrs is the first attempt to document those people who have been martyred for Christ in China. From all the various Christian creeds, an estimated 250,000 Christians have been martyred since the Nestorians first introduced the gospel to China in the seventh century. More...
Like young women everywhere, Mei Lin longs for an education, a career - even love. But the system she lives in doesn't tolerate religious belief, and Mei Lin's faith is as profound as it is simple. Must she abandon her beliefs to have the life she's dreamed of ? To be born a girl was unfortunate. To...
"The eyes of all six thousand 'tailless animals' stared at me. Their eyes were telling me, "when you get out of prison, be a witness for us". While in prison, Soon Ok Lee witnessed the horrendous tortures and mass killings of the body of Christ, and could not understand why they stubbornly refused...
John Foxe wanted the church to know the stories of those who had gone before - those who stood firmly for their saviour even to the painful point of death. This masterpiece was first published in 1563. Foxe painstakingly collected the martyrs' stories up to his time, and his son carried on the...
The New Foxes Book of Martyrs will give you a new vision of Christian courage and of the amazing grace of God! This classic work has been edited into easy-to-read modern English, along with revised historical data. You will also read about Voice of the Martyrs� ministry to the persecuted...
As improbable as it seemed, Gladys Aylward was certain God had called her to China as a missionary. But now, at the age of twenty-seven, she was being dismissed from missionary training school for failing her Bible class. Without formal education or a missionary organisation to back her, Gladys...
God's Outlaw has every ingredient of a thrilling story- a king, a cardinal, secret agents, a betrayer and a fugitive.
This 'outlaw' gave the English-speaking people their most priceless heritage: the Scriptures in their mother tongue.
"Either you marry or you die . . . If you are a Christian. Then there is no place for you in this city . . . You will die here alone." Tara is sixteen years old. Beaten to the brink of death, Tara - the daughter of a prominent Pakistani Muslim, was locked in her room as a prisoner without...
Noble Alexander stood naked and freezing before his captors - fairness and justice meant nothing here. This was 1962... In Castro's Cuba. Falsely accused of conspiracy to assassinate the Director of Cuba, this young preacher spent twenty-two years as a political prisoner in one of the most inhumane...
A story of God's love for a persecuted people written by Dimitry Mustafin - Head of the Gideon's Moscow branch with Irene Howat Russian Chemistry Professor Dimitry Mustafin was given permission by the Soviet Government to work for a year in Italy, although his wife and daughter were kept in...
The terror began on 14th August, 1983, when Russell Stendal, a bush pilot, landed his plane in a remote Columbian village. Gunfire exploded throughout the town and it was then that Russell's 142 day ordeal began. He had been kidnapped for ransom and would be held until it was paid! With little...
As a convert of Pastor Wurmbrand, Bianca Adler worked as part of his team in Romania in the 1940's to covertly reach the occupying Soviet Troops with the gospel. She was arrested for distributing gospels but the huge bag containing them was never confiscated. 'Not one piece was lost or destroyed'....
The story of the Christian church is one of ordinary people doing extra ordinary things, for God.
Containing fascinating and inspiring insights into many lives, this book will reveal the secret of 70 world-changers throughout the history of the church, including Ps Richard Wurmbrand.
As a former director of TEAM in Indonesia, Marvin Newell knows the challenges and dangers of missionary work. Now he tells the story of messengers of Christ who didn't survive to tell their own. Newell's sobering look at 21 students of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago rides the mountain of...
One man's dramatic escape from persecution in the Sudan. William Ochan Levi, a Messianic believer from an African Hebrew tribal group, grew up as a refugee in the wilderness of Uganda. As a teen he returned to his homeland, only to face persecution, arrest and torture. His miraculous escape...
In this book you will meet Hassan of Malaysia, Muusa of the West Bank, Aisha of Saudi Arabia, Tatiana of Kyrgyzstan, Eljakim of Iraq, and many more who were all brought up to be Muslim and converted to Christ with little or no Christian influence in their pasts. You will also meet a young woman...
This riveting sequel to "The Costly Call" uncovers the stories of eighteen more untold heroes of the Christian faith - those who turned from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and secularism - to follow in the footsteps of the One who was rejected, tortured and killed for the sake of a hostile world. "Read...
Jim Elliot was a missionary - and then a martyr - at the hands of the Auca Indians to whom he was witnessing. In "The Journals of Jim Elliot" you'll come to know this intelligent and articulate young man who yearns to know God's plan for his life. His journals, written over many years, reveal...
A three part study from the writings of Ps Richard Wurmbrand, John Piper and Milton Martin Throughout this handbook you will come into a deeper understanding of God's perspective of the persecution of His body worldwide, as well as how we as Christians can be prepared to face it. Expect to be...
Written by a former director of VOM Australia, Reg Werry shares his personal testimony of how the love of a godly mother and the persistent call of a loving God brought him to the foot of the cross of Jesus Christ. In reviewing his life, Reg reveals how he was first a prisoner of sin, then a prisoner...
The powerful TRUE story of a life lived in radical devotion to God. "Is what you're living for, worth dying for?" An inspiring story to live a life totally abandoned to God! What does Jesus mean when He asks us to count the cost of serving Him? For Bonnie Witherall, it meant death. Gary and...
More than half a century ago, God called a young man to leave his home in Australia for ministry in Ethiopia. Halfway around the world, the Lord was calling other men for His purposes. From several tribes, vastly different in culture and language, the one thing they had in common was their love...
In many countries around the world, our brothers and sisters in Christ are suffering for the sake of the gospel. And yet they do not back down. They will not deny their faith. "Wear the Crown" highlights just a few of the inspirational stories and photos of these ordinary men and women who find...




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