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Trailblazers Arts & Science Box Set
$29.99This giftbox collection of colorful Trailblazer stories makes a perfect gift that will delight young readers! The set features some of the great Christian heroes of arts and science who will inspire young and old alike, including:
John Bunyan, who preached the gospel despite resistance from the government, and wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress while in prison.
Fanny Crosby, a little blind girl who grew up to become a talented poet and musician for the Lord.
Michael Faraday, who saw the hand of God in science and nature, and built the first generator and transformer of electricity.
Patricia St. John, who served as a nurse, a boarding school teacher, and wrote many stories that helped children come to know the Lord Jesus by faith.
C.S. Lewis, who wrote some of the most famous books in the English language.
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John & Betty Stam: To Die is Gain
$8.99This is a story of tragedy, but faith. Martyrdom, but joyfully laying down their lives – for Christ and His gospel. A reader will gain strength and resolve to stand for Christ no matter who is against Him!
The story of John and Betty Stam retains a spark of hope through the power of their testimony and the life of their infant daughter who survived them.
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John Knox: The Sharpened Sword (Catherine Mackenzie)
$8.99John Knox spent his life with a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other and he wasn’t afraid to use either. He began his theological life as a bodyguard to George Wishart – and when that young servant of the Lord was put to death by the religious authorities, the event was what persuaded Knox of the need to preach himself, to awaken his country from the death of injustice and spiritual poverty that afflicted it.
Knox was never made for a quiet life, so when he ran from one danger, he often found himself headed straight for another. Escaping from the powers that be brought him straight into a castle siege and from there he ended up as a galley slave on a French frigate. No wonder Knox valued liberty! – as one who had felt the grasp of slavery’s chains and the cut of the enemy’s whip.
But his thirst for true freedom came from his longing for God’s Word to be preached. John knew that true liberty only came from being in service to God and his Kingdom. Many stood against him and they still do today… but he gave much to his country and to his God and the church and Scotland owe John Knox – they owe him thanks as they owe the God he served thanks for calling such men to be his preachers.
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Charles Spurgeon: The Prince of Preachers
$8.99Charles Spurgeon was a simple country lad who went on to become one of the best-known preachers in London, Europe and the world. But as a young lad, caught one night in a furious snowstorm, Charles snuck into the back pew of a dusty country chapel to get out of the bad weather. He had no idea that he would not only escape the freezing temperatures outside, but would escape this corrupt world, when he was faced with the most important decision of his life: will he turn to Christ?
A wrinkled old man started to preach, leading Charles to suppose this would be a thoroughly boring service – but once the words “Look unto Jesus and be saved” were announced, a cold, grumpy teenager began to realize that God’s word can change you, completely!
Before long, Spurgeon was the most well-known preacher in the land, touching the hearts of every class in his society.
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Elisabeth Elliot: Do the Next Thing
$8.99Although she is best known for her time on the mission field in Ecuador, Elisabeth Elliot went on to become a vibrant role model for valiant, godly women all over the world. Follow her journey from the jungles of the Amazon, where she faced the tragic death of her first husband, to the lecture halls and radio shows of the culture wars, where she stood as a strong defender of God’s Word.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel
$8.99Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of the heroes of World War 2. Not only did he preach God’s word fearlessly, he spoke and actively resisted the evil of the Nazi regime. Discovered to be one of the people behind the plot to assassinate Hitler he was arrested and eventually martyred.
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Maud Kells: Fearless in the Forest
$8.99At 25 years of age Maud Kells went to the Congo as a medical missionary with WEC International. She went to replace others who had been recently martyred. Years later she herself found herself close to death on the floor of her own operating room. A rebel soldier’s bullet went straight through her and only the Lord’s grace and her presence of mind saved her life in the end. Pushing her back against the wall to stop the flow of blood, she gave herself enough time for other medical staff to come to her aid.
This is the story of a young Irish girl who went to Africa despite her family’s objections due to the crystal clear call on her life of a God who assured her, ‘I am with you I am all you need’. Maud found that out to be absolutely true in all circumstances.
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Adoniram Judson: Danger on the Streets of Gold
$9.99Judson’s parents, delighted when he turns to Christ, are not nearly so thrilled at his plans to become a missionary to Burma. Even en route, he narrowly escapes pirates and imprisonment, putting he and his young wife Ann in great danger!
The whole Judson story is one of God’s provision and the courageous determination of a committed evangelist, persevering in translating the Scriptures into a strange language and laboring ceaselessly, even when his wife dies. All to bring the gospel to the Burmese people.
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John Welch: The Man Who Couldn’t be Stopped (Ethel Barrett)
$8.99When John Welch was a boy, he was stubborn, independent to a fault, and had a mind of his own! But when John came to know Christ, the Spirit of God took that self-serving trait and formed him into a preacher who would let nothing stand in his way for faithfully spreading the truth!
This true story of one of Scotland’s most adventurous and bold preachers will hold your children’s attention to the end! The son-in-law of John Knox, Welch had the same fiery nature and took the truth to men, no matter what the Kings of England and France thought of it!
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Michael Faraday: Spiritual Dynamo
$8.99Every time you switch on a light, start up a computer or turn on a television, you do it because of discoveries related to the work of Michael Faraday. In a swimming pool you will be guarded from disease because of liquid chlorine in the water: this is because Michael Faraday first liquefied chlorine.
Faraday built the very first electric motor and later the first generator and transformer of electricity. This was to change long distance communication across the earth leading to the ability to talk to astronauts far out in space. His work on electromagnetism is included in Melvyn Braggs’ book on 12 books that changed the world.
But Michael Faraday also suffered from a disorder known as dyslexia. This meant that he had difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols. Faraday however, overcame this problem to become one of the greatest public lecturers in history.
The interesting thing is that alongside all the amazing discoveries and brilliant experiments there was something more important in Michael’s life. He deeply loved and followed the Lord Jesus. On one occasion after a brilliant public lecture he had given at the Royal Institution, the house “rocked” with enthusiastic applause. The Prince of Wales rose to congratulate the great Professor. The thunders of applause however, were followed by a strange silence. Everybody waited for Michael Faraday’s reply, but the lecturer had vanished! Where was he? Faraday had slipped away to a prayer meeting.
Faraday believed that his great purpose in life was to read, as he put it, “the book of nature … written by the finger of God”. Few people in history have read that book more accurately and applied it more helpfully.
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Gladys Aylward: No Mountain Too High
$8.99Few missionaries have experienced the adventure, mystery and danger that Miss Aylward did in her work for the Lord in China. Rescuing children from battle zones during a time when China was war-torn was a secondary goal to her, compared to winning them to Christ.
A woman of great faith who worked against enormous odds to manifest the power of God unto salvation.
Gladys Aylward was born in 1902 in the outskirts of London and was raised in the Anglican church. She was never married, and in 1930 she took a train across Russia to China to help aging missionary Agnes Lawson found an inn. In 1932, the province of Mandarin appointed her “foot-inspector” – a job she used to evangelize villagers all over the province.
Her conduct during a prison riot in 1933 cemented her reputation as a woman of wisdom. She became a Chinese citizen in 1936. During World War 2 she was wounded by Japanese soldiers, only months before leading 100 orphans across a dangerous mountain range to safety. Near death, she recovered by God’s grace to evangelize until the Communists evicted her from China in the late 1940s. “The Small Woman”, as she was called, won international fame in 1957 through the popular movie version of her life, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. She founded an orphanage in 1958 in Taiwan, where she died in 1970.
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George Muller: The Children’s Champion
$8.99If you were an orphan in the city of Bristol, England, around 1850, life was hard! But if the kindness of God opened the doors of George Muller’s children’s home, Ashley Down, you were really looked after by a man who did all he could to transform the orphanage into a truly loving family.
Read the story of Muller’s conversion from a selfish, lying young man who frequently stole money, into a selfless servant of the needy, who knew that this was his calling to glorify Christ.
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John Newton: A Slave Set Free
$8.99A youth biography in the Trailblazers series of John Newton, the famous slave-trader turned minister and hymn-writer!
John stood and watched, as some of the largest waves he had ever seen threw themselves at the ship. Very little stood between the young slave ship captain and death – and he knew it! His panic and fear made him think only of himself and nothing for the hundreds of men, women and children chained in the hold below.
However, God still heard John Newton’s prayers and the cries of the tortured humanity pleading for mercy and justice. The very man selling them into slavery would soon fight for their freedom. John Newton was one of the worst abusers of the African slave, as he traveled the oceans to make money from their misery – but in the end, his life was changed and so were theirs.
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Eric Liddell: Finish the Race
$8.99As a young child Eric Liddell lived in the exotic climate of China. His parents worked there as missionaries, teaching the good news of Jesus. Eric’s life from then on brought him to boarding school in England, university in Edinburgh and the fame of Olympic Stardom in Paris.
But with that fame came trouble as he struggled to stand up for his Christian faith. Eric’s strong belief in keeping the Lord’s Day as a day of worship was challenged when his 100 metres race was scheduled for the Sunday. Eric’s strength of conviction and his subsequent win in the 400 meters have made him a hero and a role model for many young men and women.
But his life was so much more than winning races — his whole life was a race for God. This took him back to the country of his birth – China. This country became the country of his death in a Prisoner of War camp. The man who became known affectionately as the ‘Flying Scotsman’ in the end lived and died in China – thousands of miles from his native land and his athletic conquests.
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Isobel Kuhn: Lights in Lisuland (Irene Howat)
$8.99There is no nation by the name of Lisuland, but the Lisu are a people group of over one million, who live mostly in China, Burma, and Thailand. When young Isobel Kuhn first went there in 1928, very few of the Lisu people knew anything at all about Jesus Christ.
Today, the Lisu have some of highest numbers of true Christians of any people-group on the globe! The story of Isobel Kuhn is one of history’s greatest incidents of God using a single young woman, despite all her self-doubts, as she relied upon Him to use her to share the love of Christ.
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George Whitefield: The Voice That Woke the World
$8.99George Whitefield’s voice was the envy of many a professional actor. He could hold a crowd’s attention like no other! But although he had wanted to be an actor as a young boy, God’s plan was for George to use his voice for much greater things.
After coming to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior George went on to preach to many people in the United Kingdom, America and the world. He was the first to preach to the slaves of the United States. And it is estimated that he spoke at more than 18,000 sermons during his life.
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Fanny Crosby: The Blind Girl’s Song
$8.99If you’ve ever picked up a hymn book, chances are that you’ve sung a song written by a blind girl – and not just any blind girl: Fanny Crosby. As a young child she knew nothing of the sighted world around her but that didn’t stop her interacting with nature, experiencing the thrill of God’s creation. She held her grandmother’s hand but she thought that was because Grandmother needed her help not the other way around.
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Billy Bray: Saved from the Deepest Pit
$8.99When the earth started to shake and the rocks fell, Billy Bray knew that his life was in great danger. When you’re down a mine shaft, digging for tin, in the dark, damp tunnels, a rock fall could kill you!
Mining in the 1800s was dangerous and still is today. It was a hard life for little pay and safety measures were few and far between. But surviving that rock fall started Billy Bray on a different path – for the first time in a long time he walked home sober. Drink no longer had the same appeal. The jovial, happy-go-lucky guy who made fun of everything – even God – suddenly realized that he had a soul, that he was a sinner, and that he was in danger of spending eternity in the deepest pit there was – hell.
However, God’s plan for Billy was not to leave him in his sin and misery. Billy Bray discovers true happiness in Jesus Christ and his legacy to the Cornish people included lively preaching, newly built chapels and true revivals. Billy was saved from the deepest pit – and went on to tell others that they can also be saved from their sin.
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William Wilberforce: The Freedom Fighter (Derick Bingham)
$8.99“No! No!”, cried the little boy. “Please no! I want to stay with my Mother!”
“Be quiet!,”, shouted the man who had roughly pulled his mother from him. She was taken to a raise platform and offered for sale immediately. The heart-broken mother was to be separated from her little boy for the rest of her life.
This was the fate of millions of women and children in the years before slavery was finally abolished. One man stood alone, against nearly all the leaders of his nation, insisting that this hideous practice be made illegal, and his passion gradually transformed the outlook of a nation. His name was William Wilberforce.
It took him 45 years of his life to do it, but William was determined. He would make the business of “slave trading” illegal in England, no matter how long he had to work to do it! This inhumanity had to be stopped, and it took a man with strong faith in Christ and love for people to transform one of the ugliest features of his nation. A story that must be told to every generation!
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William Tyndale: The Smuggler’s Flame (Lori Rich)
$8.99William Tyndale lived a life of adventure and danger, dodging the king’s men, fleeing from vicious enemies, and often being forced to meet with smugglers in the dead of night. What brought this well-educated Englishman to be in such spots? Was he an outlaw or a thief? No, Tyndale was no such criminal – he was a man determined to get the Bible into people’s hands!
But in Tyndale’s times and country, the king and other rulers in power considered the Bible a threat to their position and wanted translation and Bible distribution put to a stop. Still, Tyndale’s work was the work of God and it was not to be stopped! Read of how Tyndale bravely stood for the Truth so that we may courageously learn to walk in his footsteps.
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