christian biography

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Love's hidden blessings

God can touch your life when you least expect it
1990
God's messages are everywhere, written in the language of raindrops winding down a window and teardrops winding down a face. Tells the story of how God breaks through the most commonplace events to manifest God's extraordinary presence.

Thomas Merton, a pictorial biography

1980
The author's simple straightforward narration is joined by photographs that cover the period of Merton's infancy to his death.

In the days of Jesus

the Jewish background and unique teaching of Jesus
1983
In the Days of Jesus fills a need for college classes and adult readers who have not yet been introduced to modern biblical scholarship, but who have limited time at their disposal to learn to read the gospels in their historical context. Written in easy, fluent style, the book tells the story of the Jewish context for the life of Jesus and for the community's accounts of him.

The hiding place

1997
A classic story of God's love and human courage. When the ten Booms were betrayed, they were plunged ovrnight into a hellish maze of brutality and deprivation in the depths of Nazi Germany.

Living beyond the limits

a life in sync with God
1998
Focuses on God;s principles and promises essential to a full life.

Changes

a spiritual journal
1984
A moving account of a young man's search for meaning during a critical turning point in his life.

Troubadour for the Lord

the story of John Michael Talbot
1983
The inspiring story of a former rock-and-roll star who deliberately went from riches to rags - and called that success.

Letters from an understanding friend

Jesus on the way to Jerusalem
1985
Powers stretches Jesus' passion out over the last year of the public ministry, not restricting it to its culmination on Calvary.

Pope John Paul II

2005
Relates the life of the Polish priest, Karol Wojtyla, who rose through the Catholic Church to become Pope John Paul II.

Jesus

an historian's review of the Gospels
1977
Grant looks at the Gospels with an historian's eye, treating them in exactly the same way as he would any other works of ancient literature capable of yielding historical information.

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