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ORIGINAL BOOKS
Solid Christian Books written by Pastor Jim O’Connor, the founder of Bibles and Books Ministry
We have carefully selected these books after fasting and prayer, believing them to be powerful and anointed works by spirit-filled authors who have moved in the power of the Holy Ghost.
CLASSIC BOOKS
A.J. Gordon
(Adoniram Judson) A. J. Gordon was born in a small community in New Hampshire. Early in life, Gordon felt a call to the ministry. After graduating first from Brown University and then from Newton Theological Institute, he pastored Jamaica Plain Baptist Church, in a suburb of Boston. He later went on to minister at the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, also in Boston.
(A. J. Gordon - Gordon College, n.d.)
Amy Beatrice Carmichael
Born in Belfast Ireland, to a devout family of Scottish ancestry, Carmichael was educated at home and in England, where she lived with the family of Robert Wilson after her father’s death. While never officially adopted, she used the hyphenated name Wilson-Carmichael as late as 1912. Her missionary call came through contacts with the Keswick movement. In 1892 she volunteered to the China Inland Mission but was refused on health grounds. However, in 1893 she sailed for Japan as the first Keswick missionary to join the Church Missionary Society (CMS) work led by Barclay Buxton.
(Carmichael, Amy Beatrice (1867-1951) | History of Missiology, n.d.)
South African Dutch Reformed Church minister, theologian, evangelist, and mission organizer. Murray’s influence on South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church cannot be exaggerated. He was on its initial foreign missions committee and organized and raised funds for its first mission. In 1877 he organized the Mission Training Institute at Wellington. He founded three key organizations: the Ministers Missionary Union, The Bible and Prayer Union, and the Layman’s Mission League. He was also an effective evangelist, both in South Africa and abroad. He received honorary degrees from Aberdeen in 1898 and the University of Cape of Good Hope in 1907.
(Murray, Andrew, Jr. (1828-1917) | History of Missiology, n.d.)
A.W. Tozer
Tozer had written nine books—all of which were selling well. Two of his volumes, The Pursuit of God (1948) and The Knowledge of the Holy (1961), were already on their way to becoming Christian devotional classics that are read by more people now than during his lifetime.
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But A.W. Tozer was more than the author of bestselling books. He employed every medium of communication except television to communicate biblical truth and his powerful challenges to the twentieth century church.
(C.S. Lewis Institute, 2023)
Basil King
Basil King (1859–1928), Canadian clergyman turned influential moral fiction author. William Benjamin Basil King was born 26 February, 1859, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He had a stormy childhood and strict religious upbringing, alluded to in his The Conquest of Fear (1921), inspired by his fears of becoming blind. As an adolescent who had already for some years been losing his sight along with having thyroid gland problems, the young King was deemed not fit for work. He spent a lonely and melancholy autumn at Versailles in France, unoccupied and alone with his introspection and agonising over his fears of fate dealing him a bitter blow, a total loss of vision.
(King et al., n.d.)
Charles Sheldon
Born February 26, 1857, at Wellsville, New York, son of a poor congregational preacher, Charles Monroe Sheldon was the author of some thirty Christian social novels, including In His Steps (1897), a phenomenally successful instructional novel. His latter youth was spent in the Dakotas. Subsequently educated at Brown University and Andover Theological Seminary, he ministered at Waterbury, Vermont, for two years before accepting a call to Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas (1889), where he remained for the rest of his life.
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(Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | SHELDON, CHARLES (1857-1946), n.d.)
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon’s influence cannot be confined to degrees or titles which were conferred upon him. Several university degrees were awarded him but he always refused them. As his biographer, W. Y. Fullerton noted, “The honors of the world … he held cheap; intellect he valued and he always was a book lover, but he ever reached after the eternal things rather than the temporal.”
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Burrage (n.d.)
D.L. Moody
MOST AMERICANS TODAY probably would fail even to identify Dwight Lyman Moody as a nineteenth-century evangelist. Yet during his day, he was internationally renowned. Moody often spoke to audiences of ten thousand to twenty thousand people. He presented the plan of Salvation, by voice or pen, to at least one hundred million people. D.L. Moody might well be considered the nineteenth century’s “Mr. Protestant.”
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The Life & Times of D. L. Moody | Christian History Magazine, n.d.
Dr. Lester Sumrall
Few evangelists have seen as much of the world as Lester Sumrall witnessed. As one of the most colorful preachers of the 20th century, Lester began as a fiery young preacher during the depression and by the time all was said and done left the world with a legacy of what simple and determined faith in God could accomplish. Lester Sumrall was a man who threw himself at the feet of Jesus Christ, possessing a zeal and commitment to God that still amazes those who knew him.
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(Lester Sumrall Biography — Feed the Hungry, n.d.)
D.W. Whittle
Major Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901) was an American evangelist, Bible teacher and hymn writer. Through the influence of D. L. Moody, he entered full-time evangelism and worked with P. P. Bliss and James McGranahan. He wrote (mostly under pseudonym, El Nathan) the words for about two hundred hymns, including “Moment by Moment,” “I Know Whom I Have Believed,” and “The Banner of the Cross.”
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(Daniel Webster Whittle Biographies - Christian Biography - Wholesome Words, n.d.)
E.M. Bounds
EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS was born in Shelby County, Mo., August 15, 1835, and died August 24, 1913, in Washington, Ga. He received a common school education at Shelbyville and was admitted to the bar soon after his majority. He practiced law until called to preach the Gospel at the age of twenty-four. His first pastorate was Monticello, Mo., Circuit. It was while serving as pastor of Brunswick, Mo., that war was declared and the young minister was made a prisoner of war because he would not take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government. He was sent to St. Louis and later transferred to Memphis, Tenn.
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(Bio | EM Bounds, n.d.)
George Jackson
J.D. Jones
Born at Ruthin 13 April 1865, son of Joseph David Jones, schoolmaster and musician; his mother was Catherine, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn, Meironnydd, farmer. Owen D. Jones, head of an insurance firm, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, M.P. for Merioneth, and the Rev. D. Lincoln Jones were his brothers. Upon the father’s death in 1870 the family went to live at Tywyn where he had at one time been a schoolmaster.
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(JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational Minister | Dictionary of Welsh Biography, n.d.)
John Bunyan
JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) was born at Elstow, near Bedford, England, the oldest son of a tinker. His education was undoubtedly slight. He acknowledged —in fact, he emphasized—his humble birth: “my father’s house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.” This was hardly inverted snobbery; it was a way of attributing solely to God credit for what he had become.
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(John Bunyan: The Man, Preacher and Author | Christian History Magazine, n.d.)
John MacDuff
John Ross MacDuff (23 May 1818 – 30 April 1895) was a Scottish divine and a prolific author of religious essays. He published many practical and devotional works which attained a wide circulation.
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(Wikipedia contributors, 2024)
John Foxe
John Foxe (1517-1587) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1517. His father, of whom little is known, may have been related to Henry Foxe, an affluent merchant who became Mayor of the town in 1551. He died while John was very young, and his mother subsequently married Richard Melton, a prosperous yeoman of the nearby village of Conningsby. John Hawarden, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, became rector of Conningsby in 1533, and about 1534 John Foxe entered Brasenose, where his room mate was Alexander Nowell, the future Dean of St Pauls. Three decades later Foxe was to dedicate a work to Hawarden, thanking him for making his university career possible.
(The Acts and Monuments Online, n.d.)
John Wesley
John Wesley was born June 28, 1703, died Mar. 2, 1791, and was the principal founder of the Methodist movement. His mother was important in his emotional and educational development. John’s education continued at Charterhouse School and at Oxford, where he studied at Christ Church and was elected (1726) fellow of Lincoln College. He was ordained in 1728.
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After a brief absence (1727 - 29) to help his father at Epworth, John returned to Oxford to discover that his brother Charles had founded a Holy Club composed of young men interested in spiritual growth. John quickly became a leading participant of this group, which was dubbed the Methodists. His Oxford days introduced him not only to the rich tradition of classical literature and philosophy but also to spiritual classics like Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ, Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, and William Law’s Serious Call.
(Author Info: John Wesley - Christian Classics Ethereal Library, n.d.)
Johnathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (born October 5, 1703, East Windsor, Connecticut (U.S.)—died March 22, 1758, Princeton, New Jersey) was the greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the “Great Awakening,” and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century.
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(Schafer, 2024)
Joseph Bates
Joseph Bates was born in 1792 in Rochester, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen, he accepted a job as a cabin boy aboard the Fanny, sailing from New York City to London. Thus, began his career on the high seas, which culminated in Joseph becoming a respected ship captain.
During one of his trips, Joseph read the Bible his wife had packed in his trunk and was converted. Thus, set in motion his most important quest—developing a deeper understanding of Scripture and a deeper love for his Lord and Savior.
(The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, 2024)
Joseph Cross
“Dr. Cross may be said to have been a preacher from his earliest years, for he tells us that the first sermon in this volume was ‘preached at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Country, N.V., on the sixteenth anniversary of his nativity, July 4, 1829, written afterwards, and often repeated during the fifty years of his ministry.’ In a quaint and amusing preface he records how at the bottom of the homiletical barrel he found a few old acquaintances in threadbare and tattered guise, smiling reproachfully out of the dust of an undeserved oblivion. He beckoned them forth, gave them new garments, and bade them go to the printer. And lo! – here they are, twenty-two of them, in comely array, with fresh anointed looks, knocking modestly at the door. The preacher’s style is an attractive one, his language vigorous and eloquent, and there is an originality about him which is refreshing and captivating.”
(The Church Times)
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Lilias Trotter
Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve God there. In 1888 she founded the Algiers Mission Band. In 1964 the Algiers Mission Band became incorporated into Arab World Ministries.
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R.A. Torrey
Reuben Archer Torrey was a highly acclaimed evangelist who traveled the world, preaching to the unsaved and leading evangelistic tours. His preaching is believed to have saved over one hundred thousand people. Torrey was a family man, married to Clara Smith with whom he had five children. He played a pivotal role in starting the Montrose Bible Conference in Pennsylvania, which still exists today. Torrey served as the dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and was the pastor the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles. He continued to speak and hold Bible conferences until his death in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 26, 1928.
Rosalind Goforth
Rosalind Goforth (1864-1942) was born near London, England, and moved with her parents to Montreal, Canada, three years later. Her Dad was an artist, and Rosalind graduated from the Toronto School of Art in 1885. In 1887 she married Jonathan Goforth. They served together as missionaries in China and Manchuria. They were married for forty-nine years and had eleven children …, five of whom died as babies or very young children. She was the author of How I Know God Answers Prayer (1921), her husband’s biography, Goforth of China (1937), and Climbing: Memoirs of a Missionary’s Wife (1940).
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(Darby & Darby, 2019)
Russel H. Conwell
Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, “Acres of Diamonds.” He was born in South Worthington, Massachusetts.
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Samuel Logan Brengle
Samuel Logan Brengle (1860–1936) was a student pastor in Boston when he experienced what he would come to call the Blessing—sanctification by the Holy Spirit. Three years later he became a Salvation Army officer, going on to attain the rank of commissioner. He traveled throughout the United States and around the world promoting personal holiness.
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(Tyndale | Authors | Samuel Logan Brengle, n.d.)
S.D. Gordon
Samuel Dickey (S.D.) Gordon was born in 1859 in the city of Philadelphia. Gordon was devoted to devotionals. He wrote, “The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. ” For a decade, Gordon worked with the YMCA of Philadelphia in various capacities. His oratory skills put him in high demand for preaching and lecturing. He was a prolific writer, with the bulk of his work being devotional books. Gordon wrote a series of books titled “Quiet Talks.,” on prayer, service, Jesus, power, and many other topics (22 in all). His Quiet Talk About Jesus explained Gordon's beliefs regarding dispensational premillennialism. Gordon died in 1936.
Author info: S. D. Gordon - Christian Classics Ethereal Library. (n.d.). https://www.ccel.org/ccel/gordon
Smith Wigglesworth
Smith Wigglesworth, often referred to as ‘the Apostle of Faith,’ was one of the pioneers of the Pentecostal revival that occurred a century ago. Without human refinement and education he was able to tap into the infinite resources of God to bring divine grace to multitudes. Thousands came to Christian faith in his meetings, hundreds were healed of serious illnesses and diseases as supernatural signs followed his ministry. A deep intimacy with his heavenly Father and an unquestioning faith in God’s Word brought spectacular results and provided an example for all true believers of the Gospel. May this site stir your faith and deepen your vision for the glory of God in our generation.
William Boyd Carpenter
William was the son of Henry Carpenter of Liverpool, perpetual curate of St Michael’s Church, Aigburth, and Hester Boyd of Derry. He married twice, to Harriet Charlotte Peers (1864) and Annie Maude Gardner (1883).
Carpenter was educated at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (BA 1864), and ordained by Archbishop Longley. He cultivated royalty, becoming chaplain to Queen Victoria and Clerk to the Closet of Edward VII and George V. He served as Bishop of Ripon, 1884–1911.
Among other things, he ran his own Clergy School where he gave tuition in preaching. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy was one of his pupils. Carpenter advocated a national system for old age pensions long before it became practical politics, and founded the Victoria Fund to provide pensions for the clergy.
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(William Boyd Carpenter, n.d.)
W.J. Dawson
The Rev. William James Dawson was born in 1854 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, the eldest son of the Rev. W. J. Dawson. He attended Kingswood School and Didsbury College before following his father into the Wesleyan ministry in 1875. Dawson held various appointments, including posts in Glasgow, London, and Southport.
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(Author: William James Dawson, n.d.)
Z.T. Sweeny
Zachary T. Sweeney was born February 10, 1849, at Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky. He was the youngest of four brothers, all of whom were engaged in the ministry of the Christian Church. His father, G. E. Sweeney, was also a preacher in the Christian Church, as was likewise his grandfather, Job Sweeney.
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(History of the Restoration Movement, n.d.)
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