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The Insanity of Obedience (2014) is Nik Ripken’s follow-up to The Insanity of God (2013). Both are worth reading, though this is a critical review. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Persecution
Killing Christians by Tom Doyle (2015)
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Killing Christians (2015) is a provoking title and a collection of 8 heartbreaking, edifying stories of persecution and martyrdom by Tom Doyle. Continue reading
North Korea by P. Todd Nettleton (2008)
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There’s very little known about the plight of persecuted Christians in North Korea, but Restricted Nations: North Korea by P. Todd Nettleton and Voice of the Martyrs (2008) provides a useful introduction. Continue reading
Green Leaf in Drought-time by Isobel Kuhn (1957)
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The story of missionaries Arthur and Wilda Mathews stuck and suffering in China as Communism swept the nation in the early 1950s. Continue reading
Spiritual Warfare and Missions by Jerry Rankin and Ed Stetzer (2010)
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The Battle for God’s Glory among the Nations Because the kids and I read so much together, I feel much slower in reviewing my personal reads, especially my Christian non-fiction works. I’m always reading something, though, and whenever my selection … Continue reading
Adoniram Judson by Faith Coxe Bailey (1955)
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Missionary to Burma I recently took a trip overseas to modern-day, war-torn Myanmar and the city of Yangon, formerly Rangoon. I packed lightly—so lightly that I did my laundry in the sink each night and wore those clean clothes the … Continue reading
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1937)
You’ve probably seen copies of the biography titled Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy published by Thomas Nelson in 2011, fit with a massive black-and-white photo of the preacher’s face. Whenever we selected The Cost of Discipleship for our Siblings’ Book … Continue reading
The Radical Disciple by John Stott (2010)
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The Radical Disciples by John Stott (2010) is an incredibly convicting book about the neglected aspects of my Christian life. Continue reading
Tortured for His Faith by Haralan Popov (1970)
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Perusing the library at my parents’ church, I came across this fifty-year-old memoir of a Bulgarian pastor who was kidnapped, jailed, and tortured by the Communists for 13 years under trumped-up charges of espionage. While such books might have been … Continue reading
The Privilege of Persecution by Carl Moeller and David Hegg (2011)
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And Other Things the Global Church Knows that We Don’t This book came to me by recommendation, much as books like The Insanity of God and God is Red, due to my passion for world missions, specifically in what are … Continue reading