History & Bio

Reading List


Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians

-James Gilchrist Lawson-

been called everything from “The Second Blessing” to “The Filling of the Spirit” to “The Deeper Walk” in well-known Christians,


Marriage to a Difficult Man

(The life of Jonathan & Sarah Edwards)

-Elizabeth D. Dodds-

A thoroughly scholarly account of the life of one of the greatest thinkers in American history as well as one of the leaders of The Great Awakening which prepared this country for the Revolutionary War.  

The Light and the Glory

-Peter Marshall Jr. David Manual-

A spiritual history of the United States extending from Christopher Columbus in 1492 until 1793.


God’s Outlaw

-Brian Edwards-

The story of William Tyndale (the first man to translate the Bible into the vernacular) and, possibly, the best biography I have read. 


George Muller

-Basil Miller-

The commonly referenced “man of faith” who built orphanages that housed and fed thousands of England ’s orphans in the 19th century, all without having ever asked for a single dime.  He prayed and believed God.

D.L. Moody

-A.P. Fitt-

Written by his son-in-law and gives the oft-quoted story of the amazing events surrounding Moody’s death.


CT Studd

-Norman Grubb-

CT Studd worked with Hudson Taylor in the China Inland Mission and later went to Africa where he died after 19 years of service having founded The Heart of Africa Mission (HAM).  Born into wealth, Studd gave his inheritance away so he could experience what it really meant to live by faith.  He was an amazing man..

The Autobiography of Charles G. Finney

-Charles G. Finney-

Finney gives some pretty exciting accounts of the amazing ministry God had through him and the revivals that followed his preaching


George Whitefield

-John Pollock-

What a man.  Scarred by disease and predicted to never survive and, once he did survive, to never be able to speak loud enough to be heard, Whitefield became one of the greatest preachers of the Great Awakening.  A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he is credited (by the calculation of Franklin) with preaching in Boston Commons and being heard by over 20,000 people as well as being heard 1 mile out into Boston Harbor.