Biography/History

Named more than 200 years ago for heroic Revolutionary War captain John Stokes, Stokes County, North Carolina, is an area rich in history, Southern charm, and natural beauty. Primarily an agricultural community, Stokes County's farming roots date back...

A look at the founding of America in the light of Jesus' teachings. Here is the compelling nrrative of the founding of America - told from a perspective that few people have ever heard. That perspective is the Kingdom of God.Our currency...

A thrilling account of the revival in Wales, 1904-1905, in which God used young people in their teens and early twenties as instruments of blessing. In particular this is the story of one young man, Evan Roberts. But "one of the features of a true...

Author of over 600 hymns, Isaac Watts became the father of the English Hymn. His life, though filled with trials, was a testimony to the grace and goodness of God. This book is a fascinating study of a Christian who, through his hymns, powerfully shaped...

The very title of this book conveys all the vision, the compassion, and energy of this man of God. For over forty years he was used in revival and in evangelism and always with a burdened heart for missions. Through his influence hundreds of missionaries...

John and Betty Stam were a young Christian couple working for The Lord in China. The year was 1934, a turbulent time in history and the Stams were right in the thick of it. Early one morning the call went out that communist soldiers were approaching...

This is the story of an extraordinary 19th-century black preacher in Richmond, Virginia. Recounts his life of 40 years as a slave and 40 years as a free man. The reflections and insights of this book give us a rare view of race relationships in the South...

John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that...

Wycliffe has not received as much attention as the other later Reformers, yet in some respects it can be argued that he was the greatest of them all. He has been termed ‘the morning star’ of the Reformation, which is a beautiful description...

A teenage trip to the beach, a diving accident, and a life of disability testifies to the goodness of God. Joni Eareckson Tada is a Christian author, speaker and artist whose life was turned upside down at the age of seventeen when a serious diving...

Preface from the author: It has been my purpose in Katharine von Bora: Dr. Martin Luther's Wife to picture in the peaceful quiet of his domestic happiness, the man whose influence so largely shaped the course of public events. The undertaking...

A shocking look at the abortion industry's patron saint. This book is an expose that tells the true story of the work of Margaret Sanger.   In life and death, the progenitor of the grizzly abortion industry and the patron of the devastatingly...