reading ONLY Christian History (two 5 star reads!)

Hey friends, join me for about a month and a half of just reading Christian history. As I continue to explore this genre watch me stumble through figuring out I like it!
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[@craziedimond4948]

Hello. That book Evidence Not Seen is written by my great Aunt Darlene. The book is amazing, and her stories and pictures at family gatherings were the best. She went through so much. But her strength in that time has brought me closer to God. I love her forever for that! I hope to remember scriptures like she did.

[@938quilt]

Wow!!❤

[@jonesfamily1494]

❤

[@myparallaxview]

Having lived in SE Asia and meeting people who suffered through the Japanese occupation, I was completely entranced by your great aunt's book. I'd love to know more about her. Is there anything else written by or about her? I'm just gobsmacked by her and want to know more.

[@theapearman1407]

Could you share some info to enrich Faith’s reading and commentary as a follow up ? You could add a journal 📝 page or memory item to make it meaningful personally to appreciate it from your frame of reference

[@haleylewis9587]

My favorite videos of yours are book reviews! Happy Friday to me!

[@stephania12900]

Mine too ❤😊

[@RissyMH]

Corrie TenBoom, “Hiding place”

[@sylviafriessen9124]

I second this one.. amazing read

[@jenrayeknits]

Third it, Tramp for the Lord is the story of her life after WWII. Amazing woman…I saw her at a Billy Graham crusade when I was 12.

[@user-fg1il7ch6i]

A favorite I've read more than once, Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place. I've been trying to think of adjectives to give you an idea what to expect and how beyond good this book is.... nothing I've thought of is grand enough. It's one of the best books I've ever read. I couldn't put it down any of the times I've read it. Enjoyed the reviews, please give Joe my sympathies on the lose of his sweet Grandmother. I once heard a friend put it as "Promoted to Glory". What a lovely reminder.

[@rebeccaplatt29]

Yes!! Corrie Ten Boom was another impactful book in my life. Definitely worth the read and one that will stick with you for a very long time. I still find myself thinking about events in her book and the insightful things she had to say throughout. Keep a pen in hand when reading it. You'll want to mark some of her profound statements.

[@kaywells3229]

I highly recommend “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus”. So, so good!!! I read Bonhoeffer but in audio format. I would have had trouble reading all the German names etc but could listen with no problem. Pretty terrific listen.

[@rebeccaswafford1107]

I’m so glad you read evidence not seen. But you are definitely right. It’s not a book that you can read over long period of time. You really need to get into it and read through it quickly. I found her because I listen to a tape of her from focus on the family, and if you can find that program that she was on, it is outstanding to listen to her speak.

[@tammylewis6296]

Thanks for sharing. I will try to find it.

[@lucysnowe31]

I know it's kind of weird but Joni pronounces her name like Johnny.

[@marmeemarch7080]

Came here looking for this comment! Yes, she was named after her father.

[@sherrit1750]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer- The Cost of Discipleship!!! Is a must read!!

[@HowtoFaithALife]

I loved that one in High school, I should reread!

[@rebeccaplatt29]

I read Joni's book when I was in high school and man- that book did the same to me. Captivated me through and through. I'm still emotionally impacted by it to this day, and that was almost 30 years ago. I finished that book feeling grateful for my life, and inspired by Joni. I didn't have to overcome near as much as she did, so why do I approach anything with mediocrity? It was convicting. Whatever your hand finds to do- do it with all your might, because some people lose their hands...and their feet. Joni's crowns in heaven are many, because her story has provided perspective and inspiration to so, so many!

[@rebeccan229]

The same here: I read her first book when I was 17, a real formative read for me. It led me to a career working with people with disabilities along with having a theology for suffering which has served me well. Well worth reading her other two books of autobiography too, along with "When God Weeps". And her weekly KZbin video thoughts are such a blessing 🙏

[@jenrayeknits]

My parents had a golden retriever sketch by Joni…I have no idea where it went. That sort of breaks my heart. We went to her shop in Baltimore in the 70s.

[@rebeccan229]

​@@jenrayeknits bless you. I'm in the UK but my grandparents had one of her printed cards framed on the wall all through my young life which I never realised was a Joni card until later. I do have it now which is a blessing. God bless you 🙏

[@aramintaswanson6569]

“Susie” the story of spurgeon’s wife. She was such a prayer warrior!

[@maritzacruz3323]

Yes! I read a Lil of the book... very interesting

[@pamnelson7901]

Evidence Not Seen. Such a good one!

[@yvonnehurlbert3845]

Umm, that little clipboarx ephemera is ADORABLE. Also, those tiny envelopes...might be checking out Heidi Swapp soon. Maybe she'd give you a cide.😏

[@theapearman1407]

I love the idea of journaling your reads - great idea to remember key things!❤

[@modestmom09]

I think what she meant is Biography books. Love this genre! 💗

[@kristenhall283]

I love your reading vlogs! I’d love one involving Kindle Unlimited. There are often free trials and discounts. I always see people in online bookish communities wonder if it’s worth the subscription and what the quality and options are like.

[@MsTaraSquad]

Definitley enjoying your book vids, too! Christian History Recs: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It's about a WW2 pilot who is a POW, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, and Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot Elliot.

[@Biblical_Nature]

This is so incredible! I'm normally into reading Christian fantasy novels like the Song feather Saga or Christian Advice book like the LIVE series by Sadie rob, so this is a we fully refreshing to see someone enjoy something outside of such. ❤

[@heartonthecross]

This was great! I’ve really been debating getting a kindle

[@stacietyson5256]

Get one!! It’s a game-changer, lol

[@Uniqdna]

I’ve had one for 10 years it takes some getting used to at first but it’s amazing and it’s great to have a small library in your pocket.

[@carolhernandez926]

LOOOOVED “Watchmaker’s Daughter” (on your recommendation)! You may want to try “Peace Child” by Don Richardson if you enjoy anthropology/gospel/missions books. Life-changing for me in seeing how the gospel is shared to every tribe and tongue who have never heard of Israel, Jewish people, lineage of Christ, etc. Made me cry, if that’s a plus. 😉

[@jesusonly2837]

I read the watchmakers daughters based off faith’s recommendation and I loved it too!! Especially as someone who loves learning about ww11. If you like that you might like the movie Sabina that was produced by VOM (voice of the martyrs) it’s an amazing movie! I think I’ve watched it about 5 times

[@celynamez]

I would love to follow you on Goodreads ❤

[@shonteehargett6932]

Yay love this series I'm such a reading fan but can't get into Kindles

[@RissyMH]

I tried a kindle…not my thing

[@josuajones6342]

Thank you for your passion, Faith. It always encourages me at the end of the week.

[@jenniferedwards7640]

I love a reading lunch date!

[@dawnberkshire1145]

Great video. I think you would like "The Hiding Place" and "Tramp for the Lord" by Corrie Ten Boom. These were ones I have read multiple times they are so good. I have read "listened" to Bonhoeffer and it is very good. Sometimes thicker books are easier for me in the audio version.

[@cziegle3794]

Yay top 140 and top 22 likes and comments. Love this channel. Best to you and your family. Thanks for making this video.

[@jf5101]

Loved reading Joni Erickson Tada’s work. She’s so inspirational. I found it surprising when researching more about her that her name is actually pronounced Johnny! Lol

[@janpow1]

Hi Faith! I bought the Watchmaker's daughter, I haven't started started it yet. Also, I mailed something to your PO box, I'd love to know if you've received it and if you liked it. Thanks Faith for everything you do! God bless!!

[@BunsBooks]

A book that I am recommending to everyone right now is Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova 1891-1945 by Sergei Hackel. Its a biography of mother Maria, a Russian Orthodox exile (after the Russian revolution) to Paris who became a nun after two failed marriages and the loss of several children. She started a mission in Paris to help the other exiles who were struggling with despondency and addiction, but when the Nazis invaded the mission became a safe haven for French Jews and she worked with other clergy to help hundreds of Jews escape France by giving them false baptizmal certificates so they could pass as Russian Orthodox and leave. She also helped smuggle out about a dozen children from a holding station before they were sent to the camps. She eventually was caught and killed in Ravensbrück, along with several other members of the mission. It is a biography that has shattered me completely, it is so confronting. We read it for the ladies bookclub at my church and we were speechless and crying together at the end. I especially recommend it cause you so liked that other missionarys biography. Anyone who is moved by the story of the Polish priest Fr. Maximilian Kolbe will also love mother Maria

[@Juniperwren77]

I love St. Maria Skobtsova! She is one of my absolute favorite saints

[@ChristinaBobina27]

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[@ChristinaBobina27]

I couldn’t agree more. Mother Maria was a true Christian of our age. She wasn’t just about the rules of religion, but actually lived out her faith and lead her life with true Christian love.

[@tammylewis6296]

❤ Enjoy these videos. Great books, i need to read. I love your reading journal--so cute! Aww..the 📋 is so cute. Love Heidi Swap stuff.

[@ParisStrange]

Recommend - Rees Howells “Intercessor” (Bible College In Wales)

[@skylynnfickes2144]

I am newly saved and just starting out. I found your channel and want to say Thank you for your Faith and prayers

[@HopeandFutureDevotions]

I’m inspired to read more! Our Young Adults leaders group has been assigning more books to read so I definitely will be into more books this month. I love Joni Erickson Tada, btw! She’s an artist too! Amazing woman. I haven’t gotten as much into Christian history but I did just buy a book on Pilgrim’s Progress. Haven’t started on it yet but watching this video got me excited to start it! -Hanna

[@BobbyRouse]

Biography of George Mueller! That's a must read. Changed my view on prayer completely.

[@Tatersthezebra88]

Fair Sunshine will break your heart and crush your soul, but it is about various Scottish Christians who were persecuted for refusing to say the King of England was head of the church (they professed Christ to be head) and whew, that one had me crying. It's also good for Americans to read because many of our laws were influenced by their suffering to prevent horrors like that in our country.

[@mediocreman561]

Christian history usually doesn't have scripture connected to it because it is someone's personal testimony in a way. I pretty much follow Paul's philosophy when reading books. He read more that just religious texts. He read secular philosophy, poetry, and popular rhetoric.

[@SuzyTaylorOakley]

"Bonhoeffer" is well worth the time you'll put into it. I read it while also listening to Metaxas' "Letter to the American Church when it came out 18 months ago. ." If you haven't read that one, check it out. It will convict you!

[@amandakaake4275]

I love your book reviews! As far as reading biographies, I truly think the best series is the Christian Heroes Then and Now. When I homeschooled my children I got these books for them and ended up falling in love with them myself. They are considered “living books”. I think you may enjoy them. 😊. I just finished the C. S. Lewis in that series. Have you read any of his non-fiction?

[@frisco61]

Faith you study theology, pick up Augustine’s Confessions and read the whole thing. Not just the parts you may have read in seminary.

[@HowtoFaithALife]

I loved that one back in the day, I should reread it!

[@EytsirhcChristye]

I like Lynn Austin’s Refiner’s Fire series and I finally read the adult Left Behind series.

[@valg3168]

Really enjoy your book review videos 💜

[@macie4444]

Yasss!!!! As a history nerd and Christian I love this!!! Gonna have to add to my reads!

[@macie4444]

Do you have a video that goes into detail about your book journal? Love your page! It has really helped me with digging deeper into the Bible and taking notes!

[@thatskums]

Your channel is my comfort channel ❤

[@HowtoFaithALife]

Happy to hear that!

[@mavrickglo]

I’d like to recommend the schole Sisters Five by Five challenge. Read five books in five different categories of your choice.

[@jenmiller9744]

I recommend "Eric Liddell: Pure Gold," by David McCasland. Only 90 pages in, so I guess I can't fully endorse it yet, but I was afraid I'd forget to recommend it if I didn't do it now! So far, great read! It's is a biography of a Christian missionary, who also happened to be an Olympic runner who was featured in the movie "Chariots of Fire." I went to put "Evidence not Seen" on my to-read list, and found it already there, ha! Bonhoeffer looks like a hefty one, but I added that to my to-read list, as well. I also read Joni's first book, years ago when I was a "baby" Christian, and it taught me so much! I like your book reviews; I appreciate that you're honest and say what you truly think about them, and don't just say that you like everything!

[@s.annehancock730]

Faith, I think you may enjoy a book called Surprised by Oxford: A Memoir by Carolyn Weber, an Oxford grad and scholar. Check out some interviews with her on KZbin. It has echos of CS Lewis and his experience at Oxford and finding faith and joy. As a scholar yourself, you may really love Carolyn’s adventures and discoveries at Oxford, finding her “purpose, identify and what it really means to be human.”

[@Markkos1992]

Sorry for your loss, but you definitely got something good from it.

[@anikrossignol8809]

Have you read Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand?

[@jennywojo13]

I agree with reading Bon Hofer quickly. I was reading it out loud to my husband, and I think it took us almost a year and we had to rethink what we read. I also suggest being Elizabeth Elliott and becoming Elizabeth Elliott. Really really good books in my opinion.

[@1959GreenGables]

Have you read Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers? It really helped me see what the Jews went thru in the fall of Jerusalem and what one life could mean to soooo many - a little Jewish girl Hadassah. It can help today's Christians understand the early Roman and Greek cultures that the early Christians had to live within and survive. I love the series but the first book was very meaningful to me. Happy reading! I love your Bible teaching the best of your videos. Thank you.

[@marystout1606]

You MUST see the movie Amazing Grace.

[@7peacefrog]

Hi I just found your page, and thank you for sharing these books. I have loved Joni Eareckson Tada's books and her story (she has a lot of other books and Devotionals I think you would also enjoy!) And another amazing person you might enjoy reading about is Renee Bondi (The Last Dance But Not the Last Song, she just came out with this book in an updated also 2023. And you might also like (Still, I Will Praise 2012) Thanks again I can't wait to hear about other books. P.S. Can you share more in your post were you find all the cool things you use to journal with? I would like to start doing that☺💜🙏

[@crystalmarina2378]

Puh-leeeeaaasssseee read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom! It’s not the same as what you’ve already read, “The watchmakers daughter”. I promise it is life changing.

[@donnastorey3830]

The movie Amazing Grace is pretty good.

[@user-wy6bn6mx8m]

Hi Faith, I’d love if you would do a video on doubting faith and how it ties into spiritual warfare, I’ve been struggling recently with my salvation and fully trusting God.

[@BerrysweetLove91]

How Do I Love Thee by Nancy Moser is one of mt favorite hustorical novels based on a true story... Brides of the Empire is one of my favorite historical fictions and is set in early Christian persecution Rome.

[@kgl124]

I recommend reading "At the Foot of the Snows" by David Watters. A beautiful story of a missionary family in Nepal, who translate the Scriptures into the native Kham language.

[@mhhmulaty5158]

The book that really had a big impact on me is 'The Mystical City of God ' written by the venerable Maria of Agreda in order of the holy mother of God herself. Everything from just before her immaculate conception till her assumption is revealed. Many questions will be answered.

[@MidlifeByKirstin]

My favorite is Corrie ten Boom´s The Hiding Place. I recently read Eric Metaxas´ Luther biography. It looks quite as big as Bonhoeffer but is so captivating that I flew through it.

[@RissyMH]

Please consider, “Blessed Child” and “The Man Called Blessed” by Ted Dekker

[@AuthorAnnaHowell]

Loved this glad someone else felt the same way about the John newton book.. I couldn’t finish it!! Also just fyi Joni is pronounced Johnny john-ee

[@ChristianCareerJoy]

Any of the biographies by Eric Metaxas are amazing. Martin Luther, 7 men and the secret of their greatness, 7 women and secret of their greatness (be prepared to not put them down - both of those I read in one tear filled Sunday afternoon).

[@modestmom09]

Read Elisabeth Elliot books! ☺️

[@938quilt]

I was doing a devotional based in come thou fount snd looked in KZbin and heard he rise so high and fell. I want my hymn writers to rise high and stay but unfortunately they don’t all have a HEA 😢 even king David messed up. I’m wanting to read Elisabeth Elliott’s biographies. I enjoy listening to her talks on KZbin. A friend told me she gained lots of wisdom from her and considered her the mother she never had

[@debbienorris4343]

If you loved Joni’s story I highly recommend her study Heaven…Your Real Home! It is absolutely amazing!

[@mrsh2167]

Your subs might want to know Amazon now has some decent looking interleaved Bibles at a reasonable price

[@allyseiaa]

I have a random video request! If you feel inspired could you make a video about consistency and self discipline in being in the Word and prayer?

[@kwharley7]

Have you ever read the book Twelve Ordinary Men by John MacAurther ? I'd love your take on that one. ❤

[@laceyhenry4617]

That's Chipotle, Faith 😉😂 lol 😊

[@triciadorsey8779]

How did your husband like the book he was reading...Every Thought Captive I think it was? Currently reading Wiersbe's 50 People Every Christian Should Know. Nice because each one is maybe 5-6 pages so a nice summary but getting ideas of who I might want to read more about.

[@catherinepalmer4596]

How about Christian fiction? I’m a Tyndale author. Give our fiction a try!

[@Alexa-cp8oo]

I read Joni's memoir and found it boring 😢

[@user-nr6on9dy7f]

Have you ever read Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand.?

[@CharMeezy21]

If I Perish by Esther Ahn Kim

[@angierobinson64]

Joni is pronounced Johnny and FYI she has a sister named Jay. Joni is very inspiring. What kind of glue are you using?

[@kimberlyhall9106]

Where can we find everything you used in your book in this video? I’m interested in those things.

[@beccamileaf5784]

Random question where did you get the book review stamp ?

[@Laurensbookcorner]

Hey, I really enjoy your videos!! I'm really curious if you read any fiction? If you do, I would love to hear what you like. 😊

[@nkecskes]

Where did you get that shirt? I really like your video.

[@smallbeginning2]

Have you read Bullies and Saints?

[@pepsiefy]

Where did you get the stickers😅

[@HowtoFaithALife]

Which ones?

[@fullsunoo]

3:54

[@tonikirk5493]

“Joni” is pronounced “Johnny”

[@HowtoFaithALife]

Yes! She mentioned it multiple times in the book and I was SHOOK! I just can’t seem to remember that! I keep saying it wrong in my brain and then when I talk about it I say it wrong again! Grrr! Thanks for correcting me!

[@tonikirk5493]

Tooth in the last comment should read Jews

[@Tatersthezebra88]

Fair Sunshine will break your heart and crush your soul, but it is about various Scottish Christians who were persecuted for refusing to say the King of England was head of the church (they professed Christ to be head) and whew, that one had me crying. It's also good for Americans to read because many of our laws were influenced by their suffering to prevent horrors like that in our country.