Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday was a former professional baseball player who became one of the most popular evangelists of the 20th centu...
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John Wesley
On May 24 1738, a troubled Anglican priest went to a Moravian meeting on Aldersgate Street just north of St. Paul’s cathedral in London.
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was born into slavery on a farm near Diamond Grove, Missouri.
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Pelagius
Pelagius was a British monk who denied Original Sin, exalted free will as the primary ingredient in salvation, and taught the moral perfectibility of the human race.
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Pope Innocent III
During the reign of Innocent III (1198 to 1216), the papacy reached its apex of power.
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Columba
Columba is called the Apostle to Scotland. He sailed from Ireland in 563 with twelve disciples and settled on the small tidal island of Iona...
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Justin Martyr
ustin Martyr (100-167) was the first of what is called the Apologetic Fathers.
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Gregory VII
Gregory VII was born Hildebrand in 1020, the son of a Tuscany peasant.
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Hudson Taylor
“Why did you not come sooner?” The man's question burned in Hudson Taylor's soul as he thought of the millions of Chinese who had never heard of Christ.
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Paul Schneider
Paul Schneider (1897-1939), a German Reformed minister, is known as the pastor of Buchenwald. Alarmed at the growing threat of the Nazi party, Schneider issued the state a “divine warning” in 1936.
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Boniface
Boniface, the apostle of Germany, was born in a noble English family around 675. He felt it was his duty to Christianize those countries from which his Anglo-Saxon ancestors had emigrated.
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John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (347-407) is considered the greatest preacher of the Greek Church. He was born into a moderately wealthy Christian family and studied philosophy, logic, and rhetoric in hopes of becoming a lawyer.
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born in slavery in upstate New York. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree.
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Richard Allen
Richard Allen (1760-1831) was converted at seventeen at an outdoor meeting of a Methodist society in the Delaware woods.
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Anthony Benezet
Anthony Benezet was one of the shining lights that upheld the biblical principle of equality in colonial America.
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Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot (1927-1956) arrived in Ecuador in 1952 to minister to the Quichua Indians. One year later he married his college sweetheart Elisabeth Howard. In 1955, he determined to reach out to the hostile Auca Indians.
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Mary Slessor
Mary Slessor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1848 to an alcoholic father and a devout mother with a strong interest in Missions. When she was eleven, Mary began work at a local mill, spending half the day at the mill school and the other half in the factory.
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Charles Parham
Charles Parham (1873-1929), the founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement, was the first person in the modern age to identify speaking in tongues as the evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
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Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) was born into a wealthy family in Spain. He became a soldier and was seriously wounded in 1521. While recovering, he read a book on the lives of the saints, and resolved to devote himself to a spiritual life.
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Adoniram Judson
Adoniram (1788-1850) and Ann (1789-1826) Judson both had dramatic conversion experiences as young people that filled them with a deep desire to be used by God on the mission field. Thirteen days after their wedding, they left for India as missionaries.
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Origen
Origen (185-254) was one of the greatest thinkers in the history of the Church. He tried to reconcile Christianity with philosophy and to commend it to educated heathens. To Origen, Greek philosophy was a bridge to the Christian faith, a schoolmaster leading them to Christ.
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William Branham
William Branham was an uneducated and timid Baptist evangelist who began preaching at the age of twenty-four. In 1946, after receiving an angelic visit and a commission for healing, he preached in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Bible Hour Tabernacle pastored by Rex Humbard’s father.
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Ambrose
The most prominent figure in western Christianity at the end of the fourth century was Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. Ambrose (339-397) was born in a noble Roman family. His father was the governor of Gaul, and Ambrose was educated for the highest civil offices.
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Horatio Spafford
On November 21, 1873, the French steamer Ville Du Havre was struck in the middle of the North Atlantic by a British iron sailing ship and sank within twelve minutes. Two hundred and twenty six people died, including the four daughters of Chicago businessman Horatio Spafford.
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David Livingstone
David Livingstone (1813–1873) is the most well known of the modern missionaries because of his exploratory work in Africa. He went to Africa as a medical missionary and fell in love with the continent, inspiring generations of missionaries to reach Africa with the gospel.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine was born in the province of Numidia, North Africa to a respectable family of modest income.
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Evan Roberts
The outstanding leader of the Welsh Revival was a twenty-six year old former coal miner named Evan Roberts (1878-1951). Prayer, spontaneous praise, testimonies, and public confession of sin by sinners and saints characterized his meetings. The Welsh Revival began as a local...
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Aidan of Lindisfarne
In 634, Oswald, the Saxon king of Northumbria (today the northeastern part of England), requested that Iona send a missionary to convert his kingdom. Iona was a tiny island off the west coast of Scotland that the Irish saint Columba established as a missionary outpost in 563.
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) was born in slavery in upstate New York. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree. When Isabella was nine, she was sold for $100 and taken away from her family. She was sold several times and suffered many hardships under slavery...
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Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was colonial America’s greatest theologian and the leading proponent of the First Great Awakening. He was a prolific author (he wrote over 1,000 sermons), a missionary to the Native Americans, and the president of Princeton College.
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William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an English statesman who brought substantial social reform to Great Britain, including the abolition of slavery in all British territories.
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Richard Allen
Richard Allen (1760-1831) was converted at seventeen at an outdoor meeting of a Methodist society in the Delaware woods.
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Saint Patrick
Patrick was born around 389 somewhere in the Roman colony of Britain. At 16, pirates captured him and took him to Ireland as a slave.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) was one of the most remarkable and influential women of the early twentieth century.
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John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (1330-1384) produced the first complete translation of the Bible in the English language. He is often called the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”
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William Seymour
In 1905, William Seymour (1870-1922), a one-eyed Holiness preacher and the son of former slaves, heard Charles Parham teach on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in Houston Texas.
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