Browsing Titles 1 to 17 of 17 in Subject Category The Saints

The Age of Knights and Friars: ... the History of the Christian Church (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Leigh Churchill
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: John Bentliff
Approximate time: 11 hours 55 minutes
Catalog number: 1421 (part of the Torch collection)
History of the Christian Church, book 3. This Christian historian applies his story-teller's craft to the history of Christianity from AD 1000 to the eve of the Reformation.

Bite-size Biographies (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Tim Chester
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Sheila Dunning and Various Narrators
Approximate time: 7 hours 35 minutes
Catalog number: 1243 (part of the Torch collection)
This book contains A set of six bite-size biographies written by Tim Chester. Tim's writings contain the dynamic historical stories of key figures in church history. While many memorable people could have been included, however, the ones provided here are Aidan of Lindisfarne, John Wycliffe, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Jones, Thomas Cranmer, and William Tyndale.

The Blood of Martyrs, from Pentecost to the Age of Theodosius (AD 397) (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Leigh Churchill
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Historical, Suffering and Persecution, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Robin Russell
Approximate time: 14 hours 2 minutes
Catalog number: 1344 (part of the Torch collection)
History of the Christian Church, book 1. As you travel through the first four centuries of the church with the saints (and sinners) who carried the gospel to all the world, be encouraged and strengthened.

Fearless Pilgrim: the Life and Times of John Bunyan (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Faith Cook
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Suffering and Persecution, The Saints
Read by: John Bentliff
Approximate time: 17 hours 45 minutes
Catalog number: 1520 (part of the Torch collection)
JOHN BUNYAN is well known as the author of "The Pilgrim's Progress", the seventeenth century spiritual classic which has been the second best-selling book in the world after the Bible. He was also a much-loved preacher and pastor. This book recounts his imprisonment and eventual release while touching on his family life, describing his ministry, and eventually recounting the publication of his allegorical classics.

Flame in My Heart, St Aidan for Today (Audio DAISY Book)

By: David Adam
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Saints
Read by: John Bentliff
Approximate time: 4 hours 45 minutes
Catalog number: 1285 (part of the Torch collection)
In the dark ages, a light shone out to illuminate much of England and spread out into much of Europe. The torch of that light was St Aidan and the Lindisfarne community - the light is Christ.

In the Steps of Timothy (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Lance Pierson
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Bible Characters, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Margaret Lauritzen
Approximate time: 15 hours 41 minutes
Catalog number: 1457 (part of the Torch collection)
Lance Pierson reconstructs the life and times of Timothy and shows how God uses not just the obvious leaders but ordinary people.

John Welch, the Man Who Couldn't Be Stopped (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Ethel Barrett
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Joyce Mount
Approximate time: 3 hours 11 minutes
Catalog number: 1303 (part of the Torch collection)
JOHN WELCH : dedicated his life to God, though it brought him misunderstanding, hostility and even persecution.

Queen of the Reformation: Katie Luther (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Charles Ludwig
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Joy Westmore
Approximate time: 8 hours 34 minutes
Catalog number: 1498 (part of the ABC collection)
A biographical novel about Katie Luther, one of the great women of the church and wife of the reformer Martin Luther.

Seven Great Prayer Warriors (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Colin Whittaker
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Historical, Prayer, The Saints
Read by: Tom Robertson
Approximate time: 9 hours 42 minutes
Catalog number: 1335 (part of the Torch collection)
Meet seven outstanding champions of prayer whose stories of patience and faithfulness have inspired generations of Christians. Included are Charles Finney, Hudson Taylor, and George Muller, among others.

Ten Boys Who Changed the World (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Marriage and Family, Missions and Missionaries, The Saints
Read by: Tessa Chopping
Approximate time: 2 hours 37 minutes
Catalog number: 1318 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Would you like to change the world? These ten boys did! Included are Billy Graham, Brother Andrew, John Newton, George Muller, Nicky Cruz, William Carey, David Livingstone, Adoniram Judson, Eric Liddell, and Luis Palau.

Ten Boys Who Made a Difference (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Joan White
Approximate time: 3 hours 5 minutes
Catalog number: 1330 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Would you like to make a difference? These ten boys grew up to do just that. Included are Augustine, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Hugh Latimer, Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, Thomas Chalmers, and Lord Shaftesbury.

Ten Boys Who Made History (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Barbara Hall
Approximate time: 3 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 1339 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Read how these boys made history. Included are Robert Murray McCheyne, Martyn Lloyd Jones, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Rutherford, D L Moody, Billy Sunday, A W Tozer , and John Owen.

Ten Girls Who Changed the World (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Marriage and Family, Missions and Missionaries, The Saints
Read by: Daphne Johnson
Approximate time: 2 hours 50 minutes
Catalog number: 1317 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Would you like to change your world? These ten girls did! Included are Isobel Kuhn, Elizabeth Fry, Amy Carmichael, Gladys Aylward, Mary Slessor, Catherine Booth, Jackie Pullinger, Evelyn Brand, Joni Eareckson Tada, and Cori Ten Boom

Ten Girls Who Made History (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Barbara Hall
Approximate time: 3 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 1340 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11. Would you like to make history? These ten girls grew up and did just that! Included are Florence Nightingale, Henrietta Mears, Mary Jane Kinnaird, Elisabeth Elliot, Ida Scudder, Betty Green, Jeanette Li, Bessie Adams, Emma Dryer, and Lottie Moon.

William Tyndale: Bible Smuggler (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Louise Vernon
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Joyce Mount
Approximate time: 3 hours 36 minutes
Catalog number: 1304 (part of the Torch collection)
Translating the Bible from Latin into English and finding a printer in the 16th century was a dangerous task. A daring story of hope, courage and escape.

Cuthbert of Farne, a Novel of Northumbria's Warrior Saint (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 1 in series The Cuthbert Novels
By: Katharine Tiernan
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Rosemary Pedley
Approximate time: 11 hours 51 minutes
Catalog number: 1120 (part of the Torch collection)
"What made a young Anglo-Saxon warrior lay down his sword and enter a monastery? Why would he turn his back on wealth and position, and women? Seventh-century England is a time of war and religious divisions that threaten to split the Church. As a reconciler and peace-maker he is much loved by those around him, and his antagonist, the powerful Bishop Wilfrid, respects him. When Cuthbert's vocation takes him to the windswept solitude of inner Farne, his long-foretold destiny lies in wait for him. He is summoned back to become the most powerful churchman in the land. This gripping historical novel takes us to the heart of Cuthbert's world and sheds new light on the life and times of the north's favorite saint." This book is the first historical novel in this series about Cuthbert, the much-loved saint of the North. Cuthbert was a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early English Church.

Place of Repose, Saint Cuthbert's Last Journey (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 2 in series The Cuthbert Novels
By: Katharine Tiernan
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Historical, Suffering and Persecution, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Rosemary Pedley
Approximate time: 8 hours 23 minutes
Catalog number: 1121 (part of the Torch collection)
"The year is 875, and the Danish King of York, Halfden Ragnarsson, is carrying fire and sword across Northumbria, burning churches and monasteries and killing their inhabitants. The once-great Christian kingdom is at the mercy of the heathen. The monks of Lindisfarne flee, taking the relics of Saint Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels with them. Their journey in search of a new home for the Saint lasts for seven years and changes the lives of the men who bear him for ever." Tiernan's second novel is a tale of violence and intrigue, revenge and reconciliation and of true love lost and found.

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