People Whose Faith Got Them into Trouble: Stories of Costly Discipleship

People Whose Faith Got Them into Trouble: Stories of Costly Discipleship by Cowart, John W.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780830817375.

CONTENTS: 1The Day They Killed Polycarp (d. 166) - An eighty-six-year-old man faces death in a Roman arena. 2The Man behind Santa Claus, Nicholas of Myra (d. 343) - A fighting Bishop survives years of systematic persecution. 3. He Did Not Want to Go, Patrick of Ireland (d. 461) - The future patron saint of Ireland did not want to go to Ireland. 4 A New Kind of Simpleton - Francis of Assisi (d. I226) - When he appeared naked in the church, people considered him crazy. 5 The Executions at Oxford, Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) - Christian martyrs always remain faithful to the very end or do they... 6 A Mystic lady, Madame Jeanne Marie Guyon (d. I717) - She taught a Bible study class in the palace for the Kings many mistresses. 7 The Best Preparation, Susannah Wesley (d. I 742) - Enemies slashed her cows and jailed her husband, yet her trials outfitted her children for worldwide ministry. 8 Widows Ought Not to Burn, William Carey (d. 1834) - Facing unbelievable hardships in India, he translated the Bible into thirty-eight Oriental languages. 9 The Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (d.1892) - Panic stampeded his congregation: seven killed, twenty-eight hospitalized, scores injured. Was his ministry over... 10 He Has a Plan; He Has a Throne, James Hudson Taylor (d. 1905) - The founder of the China Inland Mission did not recruit volunteers, but he prayed and 600 people applied to go. 11 A Titanic Hero. Dr. Robert J. Bateman (d. 1912) - His quest to establish a shelter for prostitutes led him aboard the Titanic. 12 Mary and the Beanstalk, Mary Slessor of Calabar (d. I915) - The armed warriors wanted their bag of beans back, but the shy missionary would not give them up. 13 The Worst People on Earth, Five martyred by the Aucas (d. 1956) - The savages feared the missionaries had come to kill and eat them.