Not Your Average Reading Challenge

This is not your average reading challenge.  You don’t have to read 50 books by the end of the year.  You don’t have to read a book by an author with the same initials as yours.  You don’t have to read a thriller or a classic or a book translated from in a foreign language.  I don’t belittle those types of challenges.  In fact, I completed two such lists this year.  But I’d like to issue a challenge of another sort.

Below, you will find a list of names.  Each is the moniker of a human being who openly lived for Christ and because of that, changed the world in Christ’s Name.  Read something by or about one or more of these individuals, not to glorify the individual but rather to see the work of God in others’ lives so we may better notice His work in ours.  This list is certainly not exhaustive.  If you’d like to add a name, please leave it as a comment on this post.  I pray this activity blesses you and inspires you to live out loud for Christ!

A.W. Tozer	Adoniram Judson	Amy Carmichael	Andrew Murray
Benjamin Broomhall	Bethany Hamilton	Betty Greene	Betty Olsen
Billy Graham	Billy Sunday	Brother Andrew	Brother Lawrence
Cameron Townsend	Captain John Birch	Charles Grandison Finney	Charles Judd
Charles Spurgeon	Clarence Jones	Corrie Ten Boom	Count Zinzendorf
C.S. Lewis	C.T. Studd	David Brainerd	David Bussau
David Livingstone	Dawson Trotman	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Dixon Edward Hoste
D.L. Moody	Elisabeth Elliot	Eric Liddell	Eric Ludy
Fannie Crosby	Father Damien	Florence Young	Frances Ridley Havergal
Francis Asbury	Francis (and Edith) Schaeffer	Frank Laubach	Franklin Graham
G.K. Chesterton	George Muller	George Whitefield	Gladys Aylward
Harriet Tubman	Henry Martyn	Horatio Spafford	Hudson Taylor
Ida Scudder	Ignatius of Antioch	Irenaeus of Lyons	Isobel Kuhn
Jacob DeShazer	James W.C. Pennington	Jeanne Guyon	Jim Elliot
John Bunyan	John Calvin	John Eliot	John Lennox
John Newton	John Gibson Paton	John Stephen Piper	John Pollock
John Stott	John Wesley	John Williams	John Wycliffe
Jonathan Edwards	Jonathan Goforth	Ken Boa	Ken Taylor
Klaus-Dieter John	Lee Stroebel	Leonard Ravenhill	Lillian Trasher
Loren Cunninghan	Lottie Moon	Louis Zamperini	Luis Palau
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Slessor	Mary Jo Sharp
Mike Benge (Betty Olsen’s co-captor)	Montagu Beauchamp	Mordecai Ham	Mother Teresa
Nate Saint	Norman Grubb	Paul Brand	Philip P. Bliss
R.C. Sproul	Rachel Saint	Ravi Zacharias	Richard Wurmbrand
Robert Moffat	Robert Murray McCheyne	Rowland Bingham	Saint Augustine
Samuel Morris	Samuel Zwemer	Sundar Singh	Thomas a Kempis
Watchman Nee	Wilfred Grenfell	William (and Catherine) Booth	William Carey
William Cowper	William David Rudland	William Tyndale	William Wilberforce
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