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Book suggestions?

jeff77

jeff77

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I'm looking for a new book to read and wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I have recently read God's Smuggler, The Cross and the Switchblade and have started the book called "Not a Fan". I like biographies of missionaries in particular.

Another great book that I have read is called "Unbroken". It is a WW2 story about a man that survives being captured by the Japanese. It is not a Christian book in itself but the last 1/4 of the book is about his accepting Christ after hearing a sermon by Billy Graham. The mans name is Louie Zamperini and he is probably better known in California. He is still alive today at age 96.
 
Just finished reading "All In" by Mark Batterson, I highly recommend it!

If you want a powerful Christian testimony from world war two learn more about Jacob Deshazer. Just google him and youtube him. Enjoy!
 
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy is a great biography if you're looking for stuff centered around WWII. In case you aren't familiar with him, he was a brilliant theologian in Nazi Germany who transitioned from being a borderline pacifistic to attempting to assassinate Hitler.

Another great biography is George Mueller: the guardian of bristol's orphans. If you aren't familiar with George Mueller I highly recommend at least finding out more about him even if you don't read his bio.
 
eng35 said:
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy is a great biography if you're looking for stuff centered around WWII. In case you aren't familiar with him, he was a brilliant theologian in Nazi Germany who transitioned from being a borderline pacifistic to attempting to assassinate Hitler.

Another great biography is George Mueller: the guardian of bristol's orphans. If you aren't familiar with George Mueller I highly recommend at least finding out more about him even if you don't read his bio.
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I am about half way through with Bonhoeffer's Biography by Eric Metaxas. It is quite a story and I am amazed with how he was able to stay true to the Bible during a time in Germany when even the Christians were starting to believe in the false doctrines. I also had no idea that Hitler was so involved in pretending to be a Christian and getting the church to support his agenda.
 
These are some of my favorite Christian biographies, most of which I've read multiple times:

Memoir & Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne
A Chance To Die (about Amy Carmichael)
Bruchko (about Bruce Olsen)
C.T. Studd
Daktar (and Daktar II)
Evidence Not Seen
Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners (John Bunyan's spiritual autobiography)
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret
No Compromise (Keith Green)
Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God
Peace Child
Queen Of The Dark Chamber (Christiana Tsai)
Samuel Morris (Prince Kaboo)
Shadow Of The Almighty
Sufferings In Africa (Captain James Riley)
The Cross And The Switchblade
The Hiding Place
 
I really liked The Cross and the Switchblade. There are a couple of others on your list that I have considered reading.
 
jeff77 said:
I recently read "Seven Men" by Eric Metaxes and I think Eric Liddell was one of the seven mini biographies in the book.
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Yes, you're right, Liddell was one of the seven men.

I love Metaxas, especially his work on Bonhoeffer and Wilberforce.
 
eng35 said:
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy is a great biography if you're looking for stuff centered around WWII. In case you aren't familiar with him, he was a brilliant theologian in Nazi Germany who transitioned from being a borderline pacifistic to attempting to assassinate Hitler.

Another great biography is George Mueller: the guardian of bristol's orphans. If you aren't familiar with George Mueller I highly recommend at least finding out more about him even if you don't read his bio.
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I have one of the most tangential of all connections with Bonhoeffer. I sometimes attend Abyssinian Baptist church in New York with a friend who does pastoral work there. It was while worshipping at Abyssinian while living in New York that Bonhoeffer found and nurtured a deep passionate spirituality that he'd never found in the German Lutheran churches. I'm convinced that spirituality was an essential encouragement to Bonhoeffer to make his moral stand against Nazism.
 
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