Wholesomewords - The Best Christian Biography Resources on the web*****

Click the main page - for a list of biographies

Echoes from Glory: sayings of Christians of the past

Missionary Biographies

Miscellaneous Sources

The Cyber Hymnal: Biographies: click on the alphabet on the left margin

Sword of the Lord Biographies: biographies of preachers

Biography of George Muller the entire book by A. T. Pierson

Don't forget to search "Google" for Christian Biographies (Hint: put the name in quotes e.g.,  "Jonathan Edwards")

Biographies from Dr John Piper at Desiring God****

These synopses of the lives of some of the greatest saints of old placing emphasis on what made them the men of God that history has proven them to be.

John Piper has an excellent sermon to stimulate us to read biographies of our ancestors in the faith, writing that...
 

Hebrews 11 is a divine mandate to read Christian biography. The unmistakable implication of the chapter is that, if we hear about the faith of our forefathers (and mothers), we will "lay aside every weight and sin" and "run with perseverance the race that is set before us" (see note Hebrews 12:1). If we asked the author, "How shall we stir one another up to love and good works?" (note Hebrews 10:24), his answer would be: "Through encouragement from the living (note Hebrews 10:25) and the dead" (Hebrews 11). Christian biography is the means by which "body life" cuts across the generations. (Read Dr Piper's entire message Brothers, Read Christian Biography)

Spiritual Journeys of Some Great Christians (various sources)

Alford, Henry
Athanasius (Athanasius--Exile) (Athanasius--Creed)
Augustine: The Swan is Not Silent
Baxter, Richard  (Baxter, Richard--Biography)
Bliss, Phillip (songwriter companion of D Moody)
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich) (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich)
Bonar, Andrew
Bonar, Horatius
Boom, Corrie (Boom, Corrie Ten)
Booth, William
Borden, William
Brainerd, David - Life & Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards
Brainerd, David: Oh, That I May Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey!
Brainerd, David--Conversion (Brainerd, David--Dark Night of Soul)
Broadus, John
Brooks, Phillips
Bunyan, John: The Life of John Bunyan
Bunyan, John: To Live Upon God that Is Invisible (Bunyan, John)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Calvin, John: The Divine Majesty of the Word
Carey, William (Carey, William)
Carmichael, Amy (Carmichael, Amy) (Carmichael, Amy)
Carver, George Washington (Carver, George Washington)
Chambers, Oswald
Chalmers, James: Missionary to Cannibals (Chalmers, James)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
Chrysostom, John
Colson, Charles
Coverdale Bible
Cowper, William
Cowper, William: Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint
Cranmer, Thomas
Fanny Crosby (Crosby, Frances "Fanny") (Crosby, Frances "Fanny")
Doddridge, Philip
Drummond, Henry
Dwight, Timothy
Edwards, Jonathan: The Pastor as Theologian  
Edwards, Jonathan
Elliot, Jim (alternate site)
Edersheim, Alfred
Flint, Annie Johnson     (some of her poetry)
Fox, George: Autobiography (Fox, George.)
Goforth, Jonathan
Goodwin, Thomas
Guthrie, James
Handel, George Frederic (Handel) (Handel)
Havner, Vance
Hodge, Charles
Hus, John
Hyde, John
Judson, Adoniram (Judson, Adoniram)
Judson, Adoniram: How Few There Are Who Die So Hard
Judson, Ann (Judsons in Rangoon)
Knox, John
Kuhn, Isobel
Kuyper, Abraham
Latimer, Hugh
LeTourneau, R G (LeTourneau, Evelyn and Robert)
Lewis, C S (Conversion) (Death )
Liddell, Eric (Liddell, Eric) (Liddell, Eric)
Lightfoot, J. B.
Lincoln, Abraham (Lincoln, Abraham)
Livingstone, David (Livingstone, David)
Lloyd-Jones, Dr. Martyn
Lloyd-Jones, Martyn
Luther, Martin: Lessons from His Life and Labor
Luther, Martin (Luther, Martin) (Luther, Martin)
MacDonald, George
Machen, J Gresham: Response to Modernism  (Machen, J. Gresham)
Marshall, Catherine
Marshall, Peter (Marshall, Peter)
Martyn, Henry
Matheson, George
Mears, Henrietta
Melanchthon, Philipp (Melanhcthon, Philip) (Melanchthon, Philip)
Dwight L. Moody: His Life & Work (550 page book)
Moody, Dwight L
Moffatt, James
Moon, Lottie
Morgan, G. Campbell
Mueller, George - Strategy for Showing God (Mueller, George)
Mueller, George
Murray, Andrew (Murray, Andrew)
Newton, John: The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness
Newton, John  (Newton, John)
Owen, John: The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness
Owen, John (Evangelical Roots. )
Packer, J I
Parker, Joseph
Pascal, Blaise (Pascal, Blaise--Conversion )
Paton, John G: You Will be Eaten by Cannibals!
Pierson, Arthur T.
Pink, Arthur
Polycarp (Polycarp--Death)
Ridley, Nicholas
Ryle, John Charles
Savonarola (Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities) (Savonarola)
Schaeffer, Francis
Simeon, Charles: Brothers, We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering
Simeon, Charles
Simpson, A B (2nd site)
Slessor, Mary (Slessor, Mary)
Spafford, Horatio (
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, Charles Preaching Through Adversity
Spurgeon, Charles and Susannah
Stam, John
Studd, C. T.
Taylor, Hudson (Taylor, Hudson) (Taylor, Hudson)
Toplady, Augustus (Rock of Ages) (Toplady, Augustus)
Tozer, A W (Tozer, A. W)
Trench, R C
Trotman, Dawson (Born to Reproduce)
Tyndale, William (Alternative) (Execution) (Tyndale, William)
von Zinzendorf, Count Nicholas Ludwig (Moravian 100 yr prayer meeting!)
Waldensians
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge
Watson, Thomas
Watts, Isaac (Watts, Isaac)
Webster, Noah
Wesley, Charles (Wesley, Charles)
Wesley, John  (Wesley, John--Conversion)
Wesley, John--Impact on America
Wesley, John--Revival
Wesley, Susanna (Wesley, Susanna)
Whitefield, George (Whitefield, George) (Whitefield, George)
Whyte, Alexander
Wilberforce, William
Wycliffe, John

Zinzendorf, Count von - Moravians (Moravian Missions)
Zwingli, Ulrich (Zwingli, Uhlrich--Death )

Biographies of Individual Puritans (puritansermons.com)

Richard Baxter

The Death of John Bunyan

Stephen Charnock

Samuel Rutherford

Christian History Institute - Recommended Resource****

Click the letters below for a list of short bios such those of Polycarp and Savonarola, men who "endured to the end" (Mt 10:22) providing us an "example...of suffering and patience" (James 5:10), so that "considering the result of their conduct" we too might "imitate their faith". (Hebrews 13:7).

(Click each letter for listing of bios and subjects related to Christian history)

See also the interesting list of the 100 key events in church history

Events 1-25
Events 26-50
Events 51-75
Events 76-100

Finally don't miss the TIMELINE across the top of the browser page which has active links to historical events in the respective time spans. Interesting!

Great Christians (Graceonlinelibrary)

Richard Baxter
Thomas Manton,
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Haukes
The Martyrdom of Polycarp  
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards 
Samuel Rutherford
Robert Murray M'Cheyne 
Philip Doddridge
Steven Charnock 
John Albert Broadus 
George Whitefield
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 
Jonathan Edwards 
Benjamin B. Warfield

Biographical Sketches of the Translators & Reformers (BlueLetterBible)

John Wycliffe
William Tyndale
Miles Coverdale
Thomas Cranmer
Venerable Bede
John Huss
Hugh Latimer
Nicholas Ridley

John Rogers
Laurence Saunders
Summary of Reformation
Martin Luther
The Burning of the Bibles
Cardinal Wolsey