Yesterday evening I browsed through a local LifeWay bookstore with my children. Just before we left I noticed a display stand that had a number of beautifully reprinted classic biographies. Upon further investigation I discovered that they were Hendrickson's Classic Biographies Series. This is a series I had overlooked during 2008 but would have gladly been included on my list of Noteworthy Book Recommendations 2008. In this series is a reprinting of Elizabeth Elliot's Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot. The story of Jim Elliot was a great inspiration to me during my college years, and while I contemplated service on the foreign mission field. This book truly is a classic and it ought to owned and read by every Christian family.Fred Sanders has written another fine article (Today Jim Elliot Was Killed [1956]) on the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and his friend on January 8, 1956.
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Other titles in the Hendrickson Classic Biography Series are as follows:
- Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor
- Saint Francis of Assisi by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- George Müller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson
- Fanny J. Crosby an autobiography
- Born Again by Charles W. Colson
- The Heart of John Wesley's Journal selected and edited by Percy Livingston Parker
- Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- A Love Observed: Joy Davidman's Life & Marriage to C. S. Lewis by Lyle W. Dorsett
