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Ladies of Faith Biographies
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Heroes of the Faith: Amy Charmichael
By Sam Wellman / Barbour Publishing
Her life was characterized by obedience, total committment, and selflessness, and serves as an example to Christians today. Those the world regarded as less than lovely, Amy Carmichael saw with the eyes of God and gave her life for them.
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Heroes of the Faith: Corrie Ten Boom
By Barbour Publishing
Sharing God's love was as natural to her as smiling. She was simply an ordinary middle-aged Dutch spinster when WWWII broke out. By the time the conflict ended, she was literally transformed by the faith she had merely accepted and on a mission from God. Corrie and her family, moved by the plight of the Jews, built a secret room-a hiding place-into their home in Haarlem, Holland. Discovered by the Nazis, the ten Booms were sent to notorious concentration camps. By God's grace, Corrie would survive to become "a tramp for the Lord" shaing in more than sixty nations the thrilling message that nothing, not even death, can separate us from God's love.
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Heroes of the Faith: Fanny Crosby
By Barbour Publishing
The rocky soil of Putnam County, New York, was good for little farming, yet many Puritan families, buoyed by their Christian faith, eked out an existence there. Into such a family was Frances "Fanny" Crosby born on March 24, 1820. Young Fanny's eyes displayed the scars of incompetent medical treatment that would render her sightless for life. Yet the light that illuminated this brave girl's soul was destined to elecritfy generations to come. Though Fanny Crosby saw nothing with her eyes, she "saw" much with her spirit - and penned scores of timeless, beloved hymns like "Blessed Assurance," "To God Be the Glory," "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and "All the Way My Savior Leads Me."
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Heroes of the Faith: Mary Slessor
By Barbour Publishing
Christian biography has traditionally been the source for much of the inspiration and encouragement found in our churches; countless men and women have been influenced to become missionaries, start organizations, or merely serve their churches better by reading the lives of the saints before them. Mary Slessor gives us a life well worth imitating. With unrelenting faith and classic determination, she helped in opening Africa to trade and further missionary work. 205 pages, softcover.
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Nothing Daunted: The Story of Isobel Kuhn
By Gloria Repp / Journeyforth
In 1922 Isobel Miller was a senior at the University of British Columbia-beautiful, talented, popular-and was so miserable that she wanted to die. In her despair she began a search that was to last a lifetime: the search to know God. Her investigation led to the Bible and to Jesus Christ, and one day God gave her the desire to share what she had leanred with the Lisu Tribe of southwest China. Ten years passed before Isobel and her husband were finally sent to the Lisu's mountain wilderness. She grew to love the people dearly, and in her adventurous life she experienced the challenges of pioneer living, the perils of war and the joys of proving the faithfulness of God.
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Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love
By Susannah Spurgeon & Charles Ray / Banner Of Truth
Susannah Spurgeon was the wife of the nineteenth-century Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon. While much is known of her famous husband, comparatively little is known about the woman whom he adored and affectionately called, "Wifey." Brought together in a single volume for the first time are two titles that will help to address that imbalance. Mrs. Spurgeon's A Carillon of Bells consists of twenty-four daily meditations on selected texts of Scripture. The warm spiritual devotion to her Savior that burned in the heart of this godly woman shines through on every page. The Life of Mrs. C.H. Spurgeon by Charles Ray is an affectionate love story but one that also records the fascinating work of Mrs. Spurgeon's Book Fund. Through this agency thousands of pastors and preachers received gifts of good books that proved useful to them in their ministries. It is also a story of the all-sufficient grace of God---in the midst of debilitating chronic illness Susannah Spurgeon was enabled to do a truly great work for the Lord, and her inspiring example continues to bear fruit to this day in the work of the Banner of Truth Book Fund.
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