Biography

Five Pioneer Missionaries: John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Chalmers Burns, John G. Paton (Paperback)

There are few more thrilling periods of church history than the great missionary movement which stretched from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Recognizing that Jesus Christ was the missionary sent by the Father, and that the Bible is the...

The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Whitefield and Edwards (Paperback)

Although a considerable number of scattered records accompanied what Jonathan Edwards called the ‘Revival of Religion in New England in 1740’ it was not until 1841 that Joseph Tracy thoroughly sifted these original sources and became its...

Ulrich Zwingli: Shepherd Warrior (Paperback)

By the end of his brief life Ulrich Zwingli would change the religious landscape of his home and the world. It wasn't until the last few years of his life that he became a reformer. He fought for truth and righteousness with his mind and pen, he fought...

Francis Bacon: Great Thinkers (Paperback)

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) We live in Francis Bacon’s world. Before him, populations had been subject to plague and famine on a scale difficult to imagine today. In arguing that nature could be understood and put to human service, Bacon...

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian World (Hardcover)

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzying social transformations in everything from gender to social justice, it may seem like there’s never been a more tumultuous period in history...

Jonathan Edwards on Revival (Paperback)

Jonathan Edwards was one of the few truly great theologians of the English-speaking world, an intellectual and spiritual giant. When he began his ministry at Northampton, Massachusetts, New England had drifted from the Puritanism of its founders...

Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love (Paperback)

While much is known about Susannah Spurgeon’s famous husband C.H. Spurgeon, comparatively little is known about the woman who supported the great preacher through the many years of his long and fruitful ministry at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in...

John Newton - Christian Biographies For Young Readers (Hardcover)

John Newton’s life was full of adventure, danger, travels, exotic places, and romance. Young readers will encounter each of these things in Simonetta Carr’s carefully narrated and charmingly illustrated book. But more importantly, readers...

Christmas Thoughts (Hardcover)

Christmas, and New Year, are excellent moments to pause and reflect--as scattered families regather for the national holiday, and as the calendar turns over again, with another year gone forever. J. C. Ryle urges us--in the midst of our feasting and...