STARS IN GOD’S SKY
By Faith Cook
Evangelical Press. 160 pages. £8.95
ISBN 978-0-85234-696-9
If you need cheering up in your faith, this might well be the book to do it for you. It is a wonderful collection of nine short biographies of ‘extraordinary ordinary Christians’, telling what God has done in past times.
The lives covered are all British except for the story of the German hymn writer Gerhard Tersteegan. I think my favourites are those of Susanna Harrison, Hugh Bourne and John Gifford.
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