Biography & Autobiography : Religious

John Newton. Charles Simeon. William Wilberforce. They suffered life-long opposition and endured it for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal and political justice. They found in solid doctrine and humble joy the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries--without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are trophies of remarkable grace. In Volume 3 of The Swans Are Not Silent series, best-selling author John Piper looks at the lives of these three great men and focuses on how they not only endured great opposition, but did so with joy and without bitterness. The lessons he draws show how to set a pace and finish the eternal race before us, encouraging every heart that it is possible to jump the hurdles in the way. These men were sinners just like us, but their example of refusing to yield to temptation or bitterness, and their downward growth in humility and upward growth in adoration of Christ, should serve as our inspiration. more...

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While walking on the beach with his Labrador, poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis. A fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty, midlife crises are usually manifested in the form of sports cars and younger women; not so for this Baptist turned Eastern Orthodox. Cairns had a realization that as the advancement of his spiritual life was moving at a snail's pace, time was running out, and his crisis emerged in the form of a desperate need to seek out prayer. Told with wit and exquisite prose, Slow Pilgrim is the story of Scott's spiritual journey to the mystical island of Mt. Athos. With twenty monasteries and thirteen sketes scattered across its sloping terrain, the Holy Mountain was the perfect place for Scott to seek out a prayer father and to discover the stillness of the true prayer life. His narrative takes the reader from a beach in Virginia to the most holy Orthodox monasteries in the world to a monastery in Arizona and back again as Scott struggles to find his prayer path. His story includes accounts of the relationships he forges with several different monks and priests along the way, as well as life–long friendships he makes with other pilgrims. more...

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With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer. more...

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Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist. training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform. his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist. monk—shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning. long traditional robes. In the Himalayas—living. in a hut a stone’s throw from the Dalai Lama’s compound—. Grozni became entrenched in a sometimes. comical, sometimes reverent, always intriguing. community comprised of feisty nuns, bossy monks,. violent chess players, demanding teachers, and a. spectacular friend called Tsar, a fallen monk from. Bosnia. Grozni went to India in search of knowledge, but. learns that the people who can teach him the. most are not wearing uniforms and following special. diets, but rather those who, like him, struggle with. doubts and cannot accept an established system of. faith. Instead, he journeys with his colorful cast of. friends to a new understanding of himself and his. place in the world. Like Anne Lamott or Elizabeth Gilbert, Nikolai. Grozni offers the insights of a religious pilgrim. from the inside—in his case, from a male, Buddhist. perspective. Thoughtful, funny, and elegantly written,. Turtle Feet details the reality of a world much. mythologized in the West and tells a wonderfully. bittersweet story of a spiritual journey. more...

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"Zig Ziglar epitomizes determination, perseverance, excellence, and a loving Christian spirit more than anyone I know! The world would be a better place if more of us were just like him." --Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., The Cooper Clinic, Dallas, Texas Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker who has galvanized audiences around the world and written more than a dozen perennially popular books, brings that same unbounded energy and clarity of vision to this candid, inspiring account of his own life and the forces that shaped it. more...

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