Learn the seen and unseen lives of Frederick the Wise. Frederick was seen. For decades pre-eminent prince in the Holy Roman Empire. Emperors, kings, popes, artists and scholars coveted his favor. He built from the dirt up a grand university/castle/church complex. Altars showcased renowned holy relics and art by masters like Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. Frederick was just. He was everyone’s favorite mediator. He defended the unorthodox as well, long before Luther.Frederick was unseen. He was famously secretive. He hid towering ambition. He had three children with a covert ‘wife’. He ran a network of spies. He could be vile. He drove all Jews from his realm. He indulged the bizarre. His foul-mouthed jester Claus Narr is legendary. Frederick practiced Christianity but also believed signs and astrology. He collected ‘holy relics’ he had to know were fakes. He loved one brother and loathed the other.And then came unorthodoxy writ large in Martin Luther who turned the world and Frederick upside down.Learn why this enigmatic prince sacrificed his Catholic showcase and risked his realm to protect Luther.In the past only German scholars grasped Frederick the Wise. Now Dr. Wellman, from frequent trips to Germany and exhaustive use of German sources, reveals the seen and unseen lives of Frederick the Wise to readers of English.

Frederick the Wise: Seen and Unseen Lives of Martin Luther's Protector

History

Wellman PhD, Sam

Europe

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At 19 in 1947 Andy van der Bijl was a commando in the Dutch East Indies, so crazed with killing and so defiant he flaunted a bright yellow hat so the ‘rebels’ could see him better. One day Andy’s squad rained a merciless barrage on a village. At his feet later lay the lifeless bodies of a woman and her nursing baby. Was there no limit to Andy’s violence?How could such a merciless killer change? He returned home not only with a drinking problem, a lame leg and a soldier’s guilt and anger but he was poorly educated because of the long Nazi occupation of Holland.Yet Andy van der Bijl did change. He did what no one else dared to do. Learn how he became the legendary Brother Andrew. Learn how he smuggled millions of Bibles into the communist countries. Learn how he founded Open Doors.In 1994 the Queen of Holland knighted Brother Andrew. In 1997 he received the World Evangelical Fellowship's Religious Liberty Award. In 2011 the Youth Pastor Summit awarded Brother Andrew the Lifetime Achievement/Hero of the Faith Award.Learn what Brother Andrew is doing now, how he once again is doing what no one else dares to do. This time into the countries of Islam....

Brother Andrew: Evangelist to the Persecuted (Pillars of the Faith)

Biographies & Memoirs

Wellman, Sam

Leaders & Notable People

Mary Slessor grew up in Scotland, in squalid poverty but she had a hero. He was her contemporary but much older countryman David Livingstone. Not only did Mary idolize him but she wanted also to find her calling in Africa. But Livingstone was fearless. Tiny Mary trembled with fear. Her father was the proverbial alcoholic, terrorizing his family with drunken violence. Mary was so traumatized by fear and shame she dreaded men. She could not even speak in front of men. How could she emulate the great Livingstone? And when her chance came to go to west Africa, how could she go to such a dangerous place? Buttressed by her faith and her hero’s motto - Always Forward! - Mary Slessor did go to Africa. She shed her demons. She alone of missionaries left their compound to live among the natives. She conducted church services. She educated children. She practiced medicine. She took in orphans. She alone of the white colonials could move about among the most feared natives of the Niger Delta area. They murdered twins as devil’s children. They practiced human sacrifice. They had slaves. They punished with extreme cruelty. How could tiny Mary change that? But through her faith she did.

Mary Slessor: Missionary to west Africa

For three years John Bunyan fought in England’s bloody civil war between Parliament and King Charles I. At 19 he quit soldiering. A pious wife took him to the Bible. By 32 Bunyan had become a literate, fiery nonconformist preacher. Bunyan was thrown into prison for 10 years. He was released, then imprisoned again. He did more than preach to other prisoners. Bunyan, the tinker, the fixer of things broken. made a violin out of tin, a flute from a chair leg. John Bunyan also produced in prison the greatest allegory ever written in the English language. Only the Bible has been printed more.“...an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.” C.S. Lewis“...if the ‘Pilgrim's Progress’ did not exist, [Bunyan’s ‘Holy War’] would be the best allegory that ever was written.” Thomas MacauleyPilgrim’s Progress first appeared in 1678. The quest for salvation is in such vivid imagery few readers ever forget Bunyan’s straight and narrow path to salvation. Learn about the man behind this miracle of human imagination!

John Bunyan: Master of Allegory

Mother Teresa: Missionary of Charity

ALBANIAN SCHOOLGIRL to BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTAIn 1946 Sister Teresa at 36 left Loreto convent in Calcutta without a penny to minister to the ‘poorest of the poor’. This was the bloodiest time in the history of India: Hindus and Muslims killing each other. The tiny nun survived to found the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. For months ‘Mother’ Teresa waited in torment for her first novitiate. At her death 49 years later her sisters numbered 4000. They tended the neglected in over 120 countries. She also founded orders for brothers and lay people. Her army of many thousands never tried to convert the needy to her religion. Instead they were to ‘do something beautiful for God’. They helped the poor get good water, schooling, clothing, food and medical care. They were the only hope for abandoned babies, orphans, prostitutes, lepers, HIV victims, the battered, the hungry, the sick, the dying...Mother Teresa’s impact is incalculable. Honors mortified her but if one brought with it one penny for the poor how could she refuse? She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She won the American Presidential Freedom Medal in 1985. By a wide margin Americans voted her the most admired person of the 20th Century. She was beatified in 2003. Few doubt one more miracle will occur in her name, and she will become Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

Francis and Edith Schaeffer were as energetic and forceful as they were tiny physically. The world noticed Francis in the 1960s as an evangelical who could persuade. He generated a prolific, well-received literature of Christian apologetics. In addition Francis and Edith founded L’Abri Fellowship to counsel the spiritually dispossessed. Francis was downed by lymphoma at age 72 in 1984. Edith endured, active almost to the end in 2013 at age 98. BILLY GRAHAM on Francis: “one of the great evangelical statesmen of our generation…he had keen insight into the major theological and philosophical battles of our time.” PRESIDENT REAGAN on Francis: “one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion for others.” OS GUINNESS on Edith: “...a great heart of love, and such indomitable faith, tireless prayer, boundless energy, passionate love for life and beauty... irrepressible laughter, and seemingly limitless time for people...” In the 21st century the legacy of Francis & Edith is being attacked from within their own family! And L’Abri Fellowship is drifting from its moorings!

Francis & Edith Schaeffer: Evangelical Warriors

PARLORMAID IN ENGLAND TO MISSIONARY IN CHINAWispy Gladys Aylward was not even five feet tall. She toiled as a parlormaid. But she wanted to serve Christ and she was willing. To go to China as a missionary was her dream. Suddenly she made a mad dash in a train across Siberia to Manchuria. By 1931 at 29 she made her way to Yangcheng deep in China and began to serve Christ at what came to be called the ‘Inn of the Sixth Happiness’.The next years became legend. The ‘Small Woman’ captured the hearts of the Chinese. She became a citizen of China. For years the Chinese fought Japanese invaders. Gladys helped refugees and orphans. In 1938 she led 100 orphans across mountains to safety. She barely survived, enduring typhus, pneumonia and malnutrition.She was expelled from China by the Communists. By the late 1950s she was an icon, the subject of books and a movie starring Ingrid Bergman. Embarrassed by fame she went back to Free China (now Taiwan) to run an orphanage and died there at 68 in 1970. Decades after she could defend herself, secular press in the 21st century depict Gladys Aylward as a reckless spy for China during World War II. If alive she would invoke her beloved Nehemiah: “Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head...”

Gladys Aylward

Born into slavery in Missouri near the end of the Civil War, baby George Carver was kidnapped by bushwhackers. Ransomed and freed by his owner he later traveled to Kansas at age 12. For the next 14 years he drifted the Kansas plains alone, but always curious, always inventive. A natural genius, he found his calling at Iowa State. Some thought he was the most promising horticulturist in the nation. He spurned prestige schools to teach at all black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There his creative mind developed better ways to grow and use peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans and cotton. He significantly influenced agriculture in the deep south. His immense talents did not go unnoticed. His advice was sought by industrial genius Henry Ford and American presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt as well as Senators and Congressmen. Carver died in 1943 after a lifetime of scientific and artistic achievement. Soon thereafter, Franklin Roosevelt honored Carver by designating the George Washington Carver National Monument in Missouri. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African-American and the first to honor anyone other than a president.

George Washington Carver

David Livingstone, a poor Scot toiling in a cotton mill in 1836, was 30 years later the most revered man in the British Empire. “great dangers and trials, encountered in a good cause, by as honest and courageous a man as ever lived.”Charles Dickens“the best possible subject...” “the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.” Florence NightingaleLivingstone spent himself totally in his calling. In 1874 he was buried in Westminster Abbey among other legends of Britain. In his 32 years in deepest Africa he walked, crawled, climbed, waded, canoed and rode 40,000 miles. He took notes and made maps every inch of the way. He doctored the sick. He opposed the slave trade. He told every African he saw the good news about Jesus Christ.Of all colonial figures he alone remains admired by modern Africa. In 2010 the eight African countries, first proselytized by Livingstone as he explored rivers and trod old native trails, had a population of 170 million. Of the more than 150 million black Africans in that number, a staggering total of more than 100 MILLION are Christians, nearly all Protestant...

David Livingstone

Florence Nightingale: Founder of Modern Nursing

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