My wife Janice and I are grateful to have been short-listed three times in the Annual Word Guild ‘Write Canada’ Awards. Two times, our God’s Firestarters book was shortlisted under the categories of “LIFE STORIES–BIOGRAPHY” and “DEBRA FIEGUTH SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARD”. It can be purchased on Amazon.
Our Light Magazine article “Phil Callaway: Missionary Comedian” was shortlisted under the “COLUMN SINGLE” category.
Dear friends in Christ,
The 2022 BC Christian Ashram talks were such a blessing. You are encouraged to watch them and pass them on to others.
Here are the Youtube links your excellent talks with subtitlles:
#1 Opening Talk by Giulio Gabeli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c_fb5JeVMY
#2 First Talk by Lina Gabeli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiRwUXfqkw
#3 Giulio Gabeli: Thy Will Be Done on This Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzsXjx0OyA
#4 Lina Gabeli: The Goodness of God’s Will for Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnd1js9mR0
#5 Giulio & Lina Gabeli Leading the BC Christian Ashram Healing Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5NrQKuaVM
#6 Guilo Gabellio: Living in the Atmosphere of Heaven’s Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1d0M0VEYPI
7# Catherine Morris’ Witness at the BC Christian Ashram retreat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKCcgw9Nwo
8# Ed Hird leading the BC Christian Ashram Communion & Commissioning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0D_VUxl41w
Ed Hird, Director
https://bcchristianashram.com
I am grateful to Flyn Ritchie, publisher of ChurchForVancouver.ca, for this article just two weeks before our online July 8th to 10th BC Christian Ashram. In order to be included in the online small group prayer meetings, you will need to register by June 30th.
We are very much looking forward to hearing our dynamic guest speakers Pastors Giulio & Lina Gabeli. Our 2022 theme is ‘Thy Will Be Done’. We believe that this online retreat will jumpstart your spiritual life, giving you unexpected breakthroughs in your relationships.
To check out the BC Christian Ashram, just click on http://www.bcchristianashram.com
To register online, click on https://bcchristianashram.com/shop/
p.s. Could you pass this invitation to others, perhaps in your church, who might be interested?
p.p.s. If you are too far away, you can check out a closer Christian Ashram.
E. Stanley Jones Trailer: Click to view an energizing short video about the life and witness of Brother Stanley. We can all learn from his example.
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Christ of the Mount 1– E. Stanley Jones Christian Discipleship Book an amazing ebook that you can listen to for free.
Andrew Murray has so much to teach us. Have you read anything yet from him? Click to read the article.
Click to check out this amazing experience at the UCA healing service, founded by Dr E. Stanley Jones.
God’s Fire Starters
Jan 23rd 2022
Posted by davidkitz in book review
National Chair, The Word Guild
This compact, 137-page volume delivers a powerful punch.
“God’s Firestarters” is about ordinary people who were ignited with passion for the Lord, and in turn, they set scores—and in some cases millions of others—on fire with the love and power of the gospel message.
The book is a compilation of twenty short biographies of Christian leaders who had an extraordinary impact on their generation and the world. Each chapter is about five pages long, and covers the highs, lows, and transformative moments of these world-changing pastors, leaders and thinkers.
The book is chronologically organized as it moves through history beginning with Katharina Luther (1499-1552) and ending with the theologian J.I. Packer (1926-2020). Between those dates we find the stories of eighteen other remarkable men and women who overcame enormous obstacles as they lived lives that powerfully impacted the church and the world.
Authors Ed and Janice Hird have done their homework. Each biography is well-written and thoroughly researched with dozens of endnotes.
These are stories that will build your faith and stoke your courage. I highly recommend this book. It’s a real fire-starter in the best way imaginable.
Just click to get the ebook or paperback on Amazon.
Three more God’s Firestarters book reviews
Amazon.co.uk book review
a fascinating read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2022
“The marital and family lives of 20 of well-known figures from Christian history, spanning six centuries from Martin Luther to Jim Packer, are brought to life in this book with some fascinating details. For instance, did you know that Martin Luther changed his bedsheets only once a year before he was married? Subsequently, they were changed more frequently!
The book demonstrates time and again that God delights to use fallible people to achieve extraordinary advances for his kingdom – what an encouragement to all of us!
There are no fewer than 717 footnotes, spanning 38 pages, for those wishing to dig deeper into the fascinating lives of these servants of God.”
“Firestarters gives thumbnail sketches of well-known revivalists. Their dedication often came with a price to their health and private life. Yet their passion for Jesus was undeniable, and they shaped history in a way few others have done. I found it particularly fascinating how close the relationship was between Ben Franklin and George Whitefield. I give this book five stars. It should be part of any serious historian’s collection, as well as a great educational tool.”
Susan Reinhardt, Novelist
She is represented by Joyce Hart, of Hartline Literary Agency.
“In the Bible, Mordecai reminds Queen Esther that she has been placed in her position “for such a time as this.” In their book, “God’s Firestarters”, The Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird recounts the stories of twenty Christian leaders in history who were challenged by the times and circumstances that they faced – plague, illness, death of loved ones, financial hardships, marital problems, persecution, and much more, and how through faith and perseverance they became overcomers and firestarters for God. A well-written and easy to read book, this is one to put on your library shelf to have for personal meditation, for quick historical reference of twenty famous Christians, and for encouragement to see how others throughout history, facing many of the same challenges that we are facing today, were able to be victorious. I pray that it will lead us to realize that whatever our circumstances, we have also been placed here “for such a time as this”.
http://www.susanjreinhardt.com/?m=1
Bev Lombard, WEC missionary for many years
P.s. You too are encouraged to get God’s Firestarters for yourself and others in either ebook or paperback by clicking on
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