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Christian biographies are a great way to be encouraged in your faith as you discover the lives of those who have walked with Jesus in the past. In this collection, we've gathered the best biographies of missionaries (like Amy Carmichael and John Paton), theologians and pastors (like Charles Spurgeon and J.I. Packer) and faithful Christians like Corrie ten Boom.
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- Sandfields
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- Sexual Abuse
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- Spiritual Growth
- Stocktake Sale
- Study Aids
- Suffering
- Sydney Anglican
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- Terrorism
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- Topical Studies
- Tracts
- Truth
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- American Reformed Biographies
- Australian College of Theology Monograph
- Bitesize Biographies
- Brave Heroes Bold Defenders
- Cascade Companions
- Chosen Daughters
- Christian Biographies for Young Readers
- Christian Heroes Then & Now
- Christianity Explored
- Courageous World Changers
- Dispatches from the Front
- Do Great Things For God
- Early Church Fathers
- Evangelical Lives
- Go!
- Great Thinkers
- Hall of Faith
- Hidden Heroes
- History Lives
- History Maker
- History Today
- Legends of Faith
- Lightkeepers
- Little Lights
- Lives of Faith and Grace
- Long Line of Godly Men Profile
- Moody Classics
- Pilgrim
- Profiles in Reformed Spirituality
- Profiles of Integrity
- Profiles of Valor
- Puritan Paperbacks
- Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
- Risktakers
- Students Guide
- Studies in Baptist Life and Theology
- Studies in Reformed Thought
- Studies on the Westminster Assembly
- Tales of Boldness and Faith
- Tales of Truth
- The Early Church Fathers
- The Gospel Coalition Series
- The Swans Are Not Silent
- Theologians on the Christian Life
- Tim Challies 10 Books to Read
- Torchbearers
- Torchlighters
- Trailblazers
- Twenty-First Century Lessons
- Wrath and Grace Biographies
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- Abraham Kuyper
- Adam Smith
- Adoniram Judson
- Aidan of Lindisfarne
- Alexander Moody Stuart
- Alister E. McGrath
- Alvin Plantinga
- Amy Carmichael
- Amy Oxley Wilkinson
- Andrew Bonar
- Andrew Chan
- Andrew Fuller
- Ann Goodlet
- Ann Judson
- Anne Askew
- Anne Boleyn
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Dutton
- Anne Steele
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Anthony Tuckney
- Archibald Alexander
- Archibald G. Brown
- Arie Elshout
- Arthur Stace
- Athanasius
- Augustine
- Augustus Toplady
- B. B. Warfield
- Basil Manly Sr.
- Basil of Caesarea
- Benjamin Keach
- Benjamin Morgan Palmer
- Bethan Lloyd-Jones
- Betty Greene
- Betty Stam
- Biddy Chambers
- Bill Bright
- Billy Bray
- Billy Graham
- Bilquis Sheikh
- Brother Andrew
- Brownlow North
- C. S. Lewis
- C. T. Studd
- Caspar Olevianus
- Catherine Willoughby
- Charles Calder Mackintosh
- Charles Hodge
- Charles Simeon
- Charles Spurgeon
- Christopher Columbus
- Christopher J. Klicka
- Cocceius
- Columba
- Cornelius Van Til
- Corrie ten Boom
- Cotton Mather
- D. L. Moody
- Daniel Rowland
- Daniel Shayesteh
- Daniel Smith
- David Brainerd
- David Hume
- David Livingstone
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Douglas Higgins
- Edward J. Young
- Elaine Townsend
- Elisabeth Elliot
- Ellen Ranyard and Person_Josephine Butler
- Eric Blehm
- Eric Liddell
- Esther Ahn Kim
- Esther Edwards Burr
- Faith Cook
- Fanny Crosby
- Festo Kivengere
- Frances Ridley Havergal
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Schaeffer
- Frank Drown
- G. W. F. Hegel
- Gavin Peacock
- Geerhardus Vos
- Geoffrey Thomas
- George Herbert
- George Muller
- George Smeaton
- George Washington
- George Whitefield
- Gilles Deleuze
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Gladys Aylward
- Glenda Revell
- Gottschalk
- Grace Utomo
- Hannah More
- Hanserd Knollys
- Helen Roseveare
- Henry Bullinger
- Henry Martyn
- Hercules Collins
- Herman Bavinck
- Horatius Bonar
- Hudson Taylor
- Hugh Latimer
- Immanuel Kant
- Isaac Watts
- Isobel Kuhn
- J. C. Ryle
- J. Graham Miller
- J. Gresham Machen
- J. I. Packer
- Jack Miller
- Jack Turner
- Jacques Derrida
- James Chalmers
- James Petigru Boyce
- Jane Austen
- Jane Grey
- Jason Armstrong
- Jason Kortering
- Jean Kortering
- Jean Nicolson
- Jeremiah Burroughs
- Jerry Bridges
- Jessie McFarlane
- Jim Elliot
- Joel Beeke
- Joelle Kenny
- John Brainerd
- John Bunyan
- John Calvin
- John Chapman
- John Chrysostom
- John Cotton
- John Eliot
- John Flavel
- John Goodlet
- John Hooper
- John Huss
- John Knox
- John Lennox
- John MacArthur
- John Murray
- John Nevin
- John Newton
- John Owen
- John Paton
- John Ross
- John Stam
- John Stott
- John Wesley
- John Whitcomb
- John Winthrop
- John Wycliffe
- Jonathan Edwards
- Joni Eareckson Tada
- Joseph Alexander
- Josh Fortune
- Julius Frederick Ullmann
- Karl Barth
- Karl Marx
- Karl Rahner
- Katharina Luther
- Katherine Parr
- Keith Underhill
- Ken Tada
- Kjell A. Christopherson
- Lady Jane Grey
- Lemuel Haynes
- Lilias Trotter
- Lily Gaynor
- Lottie Moon
- Lt Gen Sir William Dobbie
- Marcus Loane
- Margaret Baxter
- Margaret Paton
- Margaret Rodgers
- Marie Drown
- Marie Durand
- Martin Luther
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Mary Bunyan
- Mary Jones
- Mary of Orange
- Mary Slessor
- Matthew Henry
- May Nicholson
- Mez McConnell
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Servetus
- Michel Foucault
- Mike Milton
- Myles Coverdale
- Nabeel Qureshi
- Naomi Reed
- Olaudah Equiano
- Oliver Cromwell
- Oliver Gill
- Oswald Chambers
- Patricia St John
- Patrick of Ireland
- Paul
- Paul Brand
- Paul Schneider
- Pauline Hamilton
- Perpetua
- Phillip Jensen
- Phillis Wheatley
- Plato
- Queen Elizabeth II
- R. C. Sproul
- Rebecca Protten
- Renee of France
- Rev. John Love
- Rev. John MacDonald
- Rev. Neil Cameron
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Sibbes
- Richard Wurmbrand
- Robert Bruce
- Robert Dabney
- Robert Hicks
- Robert Jermain Thomas
- Robert Moffat
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Robert Murray McCheyne
- Rosaria Butterfield
- Rowland Hill
- Ruth Myors
- Samuel E. Masters
- Samuel Marsden
- Samuel Morris
- Samuel Pearce
- Samuel Rutherford
- Samuel Willard
- Sara Forbes Bonetta
- Sarah Edwards
- Sophie Newton
- Steve Peifer
- Susannah Spurgeon
- Theodore Beza
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Chalmers
- Thomas Charles
- Thomas Clarkson
- Thomas Cranmer
- Thomas Davis
- Thomas Goodwin
- Thomas Hooker
- Thomas Moore
- Thomas Peck
- Thomas Shepard
- Thomas Watson
- Timothy Keller
- Tom Carson
- Ulrich Zwingli
- Wang Mingdao
- William Booth
- William Borden
- William Bradford
- William C. Burns
- William Carey
- William Childs Robinson
- William Cowper
- William Farel
- William Gadsby
- William Grimshaw
- William Hamilton Burns
- William Kiffen
- William Perkins
- William Tyndale
- William Wilberforce
- Zachary Macaulay
