No study of missions is complete without reading a biography of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Among the published options available today, Elisabeth Elliot’s A Chance to Die is the best. But why did Elliot give this biography such an enigmatic title: A Chance to Die?
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Eric Liddell (1902–1945) won Olympic gold as a sprinter, but this triumph pales in comparison with how God used him when he surrendered his athletic career and headed for China as a missionary.
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Eric Liddell (1902–1945) won Olympic gold as a sprinter, but this triumph pales in comparison with how God used him when he surrendered his athletic career and headed for China as a missionary.
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Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813–1843) nearly left Scotland for the mission field. He read the biographies of David Brainerd and Henry Martyn, compelling him to consider foreign fields. Yet, God drew him to his homeland to reach the thousands in his own perishing parish.
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Norris Groves was a dentist. He did well for himself in Exeter, England, in the 1820s. He gave to the poor and championed the abolition of slavery. Well off and respected, no one expected more of him. Except God.
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“If you don’t stop praying to God, then we’ll keep you in prison for the rest of your life,” the Soviet official threatened Pastor Peter Rumachik (p. 40). Threats like this became common for Rumachik in the 1960s and 1970s. For nearly two decades, he faithfully preached the gospel in prison from Siberia to the Ural Mountains.
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Lottie Moon. You’ve heard the name. If you are Southern Baptist, it is synonymous with the annual Christmas offering. You might vaguely remember that Moon was a single, female missionary to China in a previous century. But what did she do? Why is her name remembered? And how did she become so associated with giving to missions?
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This is the story you never heard. Jim Elliot got all the headlines from Ecuador in the 1950s, but Frank Drown took similar risks and survived. Just south of where Elliot and his four friends were martyred at the spears of the Waordani, Drown dared to introduce the gospel to Atshuara head-shrinkers with guns.
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Dense jungles. Nearly impassable ravines. Stone-age villages. Demonic opposition. Daring advance. The author of Stanley Dale’s biography had no need to sensationalize this life story.
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Exploration in Asian jungles. Penetration of dark canyons cut off from the light of the gospel. Constant spiritual warfare. Persevering prayer that overcomes the obstacles. Joy from communion with God despite discouragement from lack of results and demonic oppression. Accounts of light overcoming darkness as whole villages came to Christ. The biography of James O. Fraser offers all this and more.
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