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A Strong Tower
By Mark Roth on May 7, 2009 at 11:31 am
Five families toiled upward in the shadow of soaring peaks shining white against a sapphire sky. They were refugees. Robbed of their property and banished from their community, they had no homes…and very few friends.
Among the weary group was sixteen-year-old Anna Proust and her family. Since her mother’s death, her father had become a Christian. He was the reason their family was whispered to be heretic and forced out of town. Anna’s brother and grandmother trudged along, upset at Papa’s decision and the ruin it brought upon them. Anna didn’t know what to think. Sometimes she admired Papa and longed for the peace he had. Other times she was confused by swirling questions and frightened at their family’s uncertain future.
The group climbed on. Eventually there loomed before them the towering walls of a castle. Would they find sanctuary there?
For Anna, this trek was not only a search for refuge, but a search for truth, peace, and a strong tower for her soul.
Set in the 1100s, this historical fiction describes the spiritual struggles and persecution of the Waldensians.
193 pages. Christian Light Publications. Rebecca Martin.
Published in 2004.
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Let the Little Children Come
By Mark Roth on April 30, 2009 at 8:23 am
Converted to Christ at sixteen, Amy Carmichael worked in street missions for several years before serving for two years as a missionary to Japan. At twenty-eight, she left for India, with high hopes of spreading the good news of Christ to the Indian people.
The year was 1895, and Amy did not know she was about to encounter a practice that would revolutionize her life and ministry. A custom of the time — later prohibited by law — permitted five- and six-year-old children to be “married to the gods” and thus launched into a life of prostitution.
Amy was horrified and heartbroken. She saw the beautiful Indian children as jewels of the King of kings, and she determined to rescue as many as possible. She and her co-workers would provide a safe, healthy, Christ-centered home for them instead. There she could shape and polish their lives for the Master’s use.
God richly blessed Amy’s efforts and sent more and more of His “jewels” into her care. This is the story of her significant and remarkable work.
155 pages. Moody Press. Lois Hoadley Dick.
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Through Gates of Splendor
By Mark Roth on April 16, 2009 at 11:16 am
It was a story that shook the world. In the autumn of 1955 five young men had dared to make contact with a Stone Age tribe deep in the jungles of Ecuador. The goal: to establish communication with a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers.
The men’s mission combined modern technology with innate ingenuity, sparked by a passionate determination to get the Gospel to a people without Christ.
After several preliminary overtures of friendship, the men set out on a crucial January day in 1956 for a meeting with the Waorani tribesmen, who had reacted with apparent tolerance to earlier gifts and messages.
At an agreed-upon time, the missionaries’ five young wives sat by their radios, waiting for news….
The story of Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, and Jim Elliot was recorded several months later by Jim’s wife, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor has since become a classic, one that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people.
272 pages. Tyndale House Publishers. Elisabeth Elliot.
Published in 1981.
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