Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

It only takes one courageous life to change the world......what about you! An inspiring number of biographical accounts from some of history's greatest missionaries like David Livingstone who answered God's challenge to impact the world. Taking the message of Christ and salvation to the unexplored lands of those who had never heard the truth, he was among the faithful men and women who risked death, disease and poverty so others might know and receive Jesus as Savior. These examples remind Christians that greatness and success is to love God and love others selflessly like He has done for us. Here is a bold presentation of how faith, obedience, and love conquered isolation and fear. The accounts of these 23 obedient servants to Christ exemplify a decision to live for God and not ourselves.

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Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

It only takes one courageous life to change the world......what about you! An inspiring number of biographical accounts from some of history's greatest missionaries like David Livingstone who answered God's challenge to impact the world. Taking the message of Christ and salvation to the unexplored lands of those who had never heard the truth, he was among the faithful men and women who risked death, disease and poverty so others might know and receive Jesus as Savior. These examples remind Christians that greatness and success is to love God and love others selflessly like He has done for us. Here is a bold presentation of how faith, obedience, and love conquered isolation and fear. The accounts of these 23 obedient servants to Christ exemplify a decision to live for God and not ourselves.

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Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

by David Shibley
Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

Great For God: Missionaries Who Changed The World

by David Shibley

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It only takes one courageous life to change the world......what about you! An inspiring number of biographical accounts from some of history's greatest missionaries like David Livingstone who answered God's challenge to impact the world. Taking the message of Christ and salvation to the unexplored lands of those who had never heard the truth, he was among the faithful men and women who risked death, disease and poverty so others might know and receive Jesus as Savior. These examples remind Christians that greatness and success is to love God and love others selflessly like He has done for us. Here is a bold presentation of how faith, obedience, and love conquered isolation and fear. The accounts of these 23 obedient servants to Christ exemplify a decision to live for God and not ourselves.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780892217090
Publisher: New Leaf Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/20/2012
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Needed: Leaders Who Are Great for God 9

1 Press On Rowland Bingham 15

2 Christ's Slave Bill Bright 19

3 Attempt Great Things William Carey 27

4 No Scar? Amy Carmichael 31

5 No Greater Love Jim Elliot 35

6 Give the Winds a Mighty Voice Charles E. Fuller 41

7 Before We Kill and Eat You H. B. Garlock 45

8 America's First Missionary Adoniram Judson 49

9 The Flying Scot Eric Liddell 53

10 The Students' Friend Paul Little 57

11 The Smoke of a Thousand Villages David Livingstone 61

12 A Christmas Gift for Jesus Lottie Moon 65

13 Christ's Ambassador John R. Mott 69

14 From One Broken Heart Bob Pierce 73

15 Man with a Missionary Heart Warren Shibley 79

16 No Wild Beast Would Dare Mary Slessor 83

17 Passion for Souls Oswald J. Smith 89

18 Within a Yard of Hell C. T. Studd 95

19 The Exchanged Life Hudson Taylor 99

20 Does God Speak My Language? William Cameron Townsend 105

21 The Navigator Dawson Trotman 111

22 To Win for the Lamb Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf 117

23 Aposde to Islam Samuel Zwemer 121

Afterword 125

Endnotes 136

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