The Best Religious Biographies & Memoirs 2025

1. Grace like a River: An Autobiography

Grace like a River: An Autobiography

Grace like a River: An Autobiography

2. Pre-Owned Foxe's Christian Martyrs of the World (Mass Market Paperback) 1557484562 9781557484567

For nearly two-thousand years, courageous men and women have been tortured and killed because of their confessions of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This updated edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs, contains stories of persecution up to 2001. Stories of heroic courage and overcoming faith. Stories of love of God and Christ. Stories of the amazing grace of God that enabled men, women, and children to endure persecutions and often horrible deaths.

Title: Foxe's Christian Martyrs of the World ISBN10: 1557484562 EAN: 9781557484567 Author: Foxe, John CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service (Hardcover) 0520066561 9780520066564

Gordon Brown's book offers insight into the events that led to the fiscal downward spiral and the reactions of world leaders as they took steps to avoid further disaster. The book also offers measures Brown believes the world should adopt to regain fiscal stability. Long admired for his grasp of economic issues, Brown's book is a work of paramount interest during these uncertain financial times and attracted intense media coverage. The book offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis as well as innovative ideas that will help create a sound economic future and will help readers understand what really has happened to our economy. Mr Brown has this to say: 'We now live in a world of global trade, global financial flows, global movements of people and instant global communications. Our economies are connected as never before, and I believe that global economic problems require global solutions and global institutions. In writing my analysis of the financial crisis, I wanted to help explain how we got here, but more importantly to offer some recommendations as to how the next stage of globalisation can be managed so that the economy works for people and not the other way around'

Title: Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service ISBN10: 0520066561 EAN: 9780520066564 Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Author: Service, Grace CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Touching the Rock : An Experience of Blindness (Paperback)

Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness -- a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it. "John Hull goes a long way toward taking us with him through his descent into total blindness...He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become far him a genuine acquisition, an unforeseeably rich gift that has made of him what so few of us are: excellent watchers and hearers of the world...triumphant in the teeth of ruin". -- Reynolds Price

With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it.

5. Pre-Owned No Les Digas Adiós (Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye) (Paperback) 0743283279 9780743283274

Allison DuBois, inspiration for the hit TV show Medium, shares fascinating stories of encounters with the dead and adventures as a criminal profiler. Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people. She can predict future events and read your mind. When she was six years old, Allison's deceased great-grandfather came to her with a message for her mother: "I am okay, I am still with you. Tell your mom there's no more pain." Allison shared his comforting words with her mother and thus began a lifetime of creating connections between loved ones and those they have lost. In this stunning book, Allison shares fascinating stories of her encounters with people who have passed and her adventures as a profiler for various law enforcement organizations. With wit and compassion, Allison shows us what it is like to live with these special gifts and talents and also tells about her struggle to live a normal life as a devoted wife and mother. She shows how learning to accept her own gifts has helped her accept the unique gifts of others and how her compelling desire to relieve the pain of others has helped to define her own life, a life committed to the search for ultimate truth.

Title: No Les Digas Adiós (Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye) Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0743283279 EAN: 9780743283274 Author: DuBois, Allison CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

6. Pre-Owned Radical Redemption: The Real Story of Manny Mill (Paperback) 0802408834 9780802408839

Born in pre-communist Cuba, Manny Mill had a life defined by one success after another. Yet, by 1986, Manny found himself running from the FBI, his marriage was crumbling, his relationship with his extended family was strained, and his self-indulgent lifestyle was reaching its inevitable dead end. It was then that Manny encountered the pursuing grace of Jesus Christ. After surrendering his life to Jesus, Manny returned to the United States and served time in prison. In 1988, he received one of the first Charles W. Colson Scholarships awarded to ex-prisoners to attend Wheaton College. Manny's story reads like a modern-day thriller -- replete with danger and tenacity, obstacles and triumph. It cannot help but convince you that God loves all sinners and that no matter what you've done His love will reach out and beckon to you right where you are. And, if you've already surrendered to that love, you'll kneel in awe of God's saving grace all over again. Book jacket.

Title: Radical Redemption: The Real Story of Manny Mill Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0802408834 EAN: 9780802408839 Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Author: Mill, Manny CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

7. Pre-Owned When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening (Paperback) 1578634008 9781578634002

In August 2003, virtually overnight, Jan Frazier experienced "a dramatic falling away of fear"not just the immediate fear of her annual medical test but, as she learned as time went on, her fear of everything. She was "flooded with a causeless joy that has never left me." In this book the commonplace belief that enlightenment is only for saints comes apart at the seams. Anyone can be enlightened, and all we need to do is ask. This rare and beautiful account puts Jan Frazier solidly in the tradition of enlightened teachers from J. Krishnamurti to Byron Katie. Guns and money aren't going to buy peace of mind. Giving up fear is.

Title: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1578634008 EAN: 9781578634002 Author: Frazier, Jan CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Pre-Owned Path Without Destination: An Autobiography (Hardcover) 0688164021 9780688164027

Written with elegance and penetrating simplicity, this exhilarating account of Kumar's extraordinary life recalls her exploits as a teenager, when she embarked upon an 8,000-mile pilgrimage on foot for peace.

Title: Path Without Destination: An Autobiography ISBN10: 0688164021 EAN: 9780688164027 Author: Kumar, Satish; Satish CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. Pre-Owned The Spirit of Father Damien: The Leper Priest-A Saint for Our Times (Paperback) 1586174878 9781586174873

Foreword by John Allen Father Damien, famous for his missionary work with exiled lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is finally Saint Damien. His sanctity took 120 years to become officially recognized, but between his death in 1889 and his canonization in 2009 amid creeping secularization and suspicion of the missionary spirit he so much embodied Fr. Damien De Veuster never faded from the world's memory. What kept him there? What keeps him there now? To find an answer, Belgian historian and journalist Jan De Volder sifted through Father Damien's personal correspondence as well as the Vatican archives. With careful and even-handed expertise, De Volder follows Father Damien's transformation from the stout, somewhat haughty missionary of his youth, bounding from Europe to Hawaii and straight into seemingly tireless priestly work, to the humble and loving shepherd of souls who eventually succumbed to the same disease that ravaged his flock. De Volder finds that?as spiritual father, caretaker, teacher, and advocate?Father Damien accomplished many heroic feats for these poor outcasts. Yet the greatest gift he gave them was their transformation from a disordered, lawless throng exiled in desperate anarchy into a living community built on Jesus Christ, a community in which they learned to care for one another. Every generation seems to have its own image of this world- famous priest. Already during his life on Molokai and at his death in 1889, many considered him a holy man. Even today, in the highly secularized Western world, he is widely admired. In 2005 his native Belgium honored him with the title "the greatest Belgian" in polling conducted by their public broadcasting service. Statues honor his memory in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and at the entrance to the Hawaiian State Capitol in Honolulu. In 1995, in the presence of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II beatified him in Brussels, Belgium; and in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI canonized him in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today Father Damien is the unofficial patron of outcasts and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. Illustrated with many photos. De Volder contends that the common thread running through the saint's life, the spirit of Father Damien that so speaks to the world, is at once uniquely Christian, fully human, and as important today as ever before.

Title: The Spirit of Father Damien: The Leper Priest-A Saint for Our Times Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1586174878 EAN: 9781586174873 Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious Author: De Volder, Jan CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

10. Linspirado : La Historia de Jeremy Lin Y Su Salto del Anonimato a la Relevancia (Paperback)

Linspirado revela la notable trayectoria de Jeremy Lin, un muchacho totalmente vulnerable, ahora superestrella de los New York Knicks y primer jugador de ascendencia chino/taiwanesa, nacido en los Estados Unidos, que juega en la NBA. A pesar de ser despedido por dos equipos de la NBA antes de firmar con los Knicks, Lin siempre confió en que Dios tenía un plan para su vida y sus talentos. Linspirado revela la notable trayectoria de Jeremy Lin, un muchacho totalmente vulnerable, ahora superestrella de los New York Knicks y primer jugador de ascendencia chino/taiwanesa, nacido en los Estados Unidos, que juega en la NBA. A pesar de ser despedido por dos equipos de la NBA antes de firmar con los Knicks, Lin siempre confió en que Dios tenía un plan para su vida y sus talentos: «No sé con exactitud cómo va a salir todo, pero tengo la seguridad de que Dios me ha llamado a estar aquí ahora, en la NBA», dice Lin en Linspirado. Luego de semanas de sentarse al final del banco, la lesión de uno de sus compañeros de equipo finalmente colocó a Lin en la cancha. Desde entonces ha cautivado a los fanáticos de los deportes a través de todo el mundo con su tremenda habilidad y su respuesta humilde a la «Linsanía».

• Author: Mike Yorkey • ISBN:9780829763126 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2012-06-17