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Four more Amazon God’s Firestarters endorsements

Neil Bramble, The Word Guild – Surrey Chapter Coordinator

Four More Amazon endorsements of God’s Firestarters
Neil J. Bramble
5.0 out of 5 stars God Stories That Inspire And Make Us Think
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2021
“Do you need a dose of spiritual refreshment? Great for daily meditation and personal inspiration, God’s Firestarters will stir your soul and awaken your heart. You will read about the remarkable men and women who give us hope that revival is still possible in our modern tumultuous times.” This short paragraph from Dr. Ed and Janice Hird’s most recent book invites the reader to enter into a new experience of God. The authors’ hope is not that the reader will simply revel in what God has done through remarkable men and women who sparked revival in the past, but kindle their hearts to desire another move of God in our nation in our lifetime.
The twenty men and women featured here represent the many whom God used to spark revival movements and other ministries that far outlived their time on earth. But these chapters differ somewhat from the more familiar biographical profiles in that the authors often focus on people behind the scenes as well as the involvement of and effects on their families.
The stories highlight major challenges, disappointments, opposition, false accusations, disease, and tragic life circumstances that could have moved these stalwarts off course, but didn’t. When you read some of the stories, you’d wonder how one individual could possibly have accomplished all the things they did in several lifetimes, let alone one. The stories are amazing.
This book is a treasure trove of great stories about ordinary people whom God used in unusual ways to accomplish his purposes. It will both fascinate and challenge the reader to think deeply about what God can do with one person fully committed to him.
Neil Bramble, freelance writer and editor
(Full disclosure: I know Ed and Janice personally and am happy to have them as part of our local writers’ group.)

Clyde Spinney
5.0 out of 5 stars Who lit this fire?
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2021
In this highly engaging book, Ed and Janice Hird bring to light the extraordinary range of people that God uses to ignite His renewals in the Spirit. Both the strengths and shortcomings of “God’s Firestarters” are realistically presented, without apology. In becoming a “Firestarter” many different paths to surrender are presented, and the book is both a history lesson on Church growth and development as well as a teaching on surrender to God’s will from which we can all benefit. I would strongly recommend this book to those who like me, only have a passing familiarity with Spirit led revivals in the Church.

Jonathan Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars Be inspired by lives committed to God
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2021
Many of my heroes are presented in this book. The research is presented in flowing syntax and captivating stories. It’s a great book for homeschool curriculum and easy reading. It increases my faith in what God can do when someone is fully committed to Him and His purposes in the world.

Veraanne
5.0 out of 5 stars Gives vision for what we can be
Reviewed in Canada on October 31, 2021
When I was a young Christian and mother I longed for a book like this. I needed Christians to emulate. This book provides vision for how to walk out faith. It also counters my perfectionism and the guilt that occurs when I don’t get it quite right. Firestarters were used by God despite their humanity. This is good news. Maybe I can bring God’s light into a dark world too. Thank you Ed and Janice.


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Three more book reviews of God’s Firestarters

Three more Amazon book reviews of God’s Firestarters
Rev Fred Carson, former SOMA Canada Coordinator
5.0 out of 5 stars The power of God for everyday living.
Reviewed in Canada on October 29, 2021
Ed and Janice have taken us for a quick journey through time, travelling with often little known, but faithful, humble and obedient servants. We are inspired, encouraged, and challenged as we enter into the private and public lives of these ordinary people, as they faithfully serve Jesus Christ.

Sien Wan-Lim
5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Spirit’s work during the centuries
Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2021
Am amazed at the amount of reading and editing from Ed and Janice.�An encouraging review of God’s hand in His Firestarters since the 16th century. We hope and pray that His Fire will spread rapidly across the world before Jesus’ return.�Sien Wan-Lim – Prayer Canada

Dr Jonathan Wilson, Senior Consultant for Theological Integration with Canadian Baptist Ministries and Teaching Fellow at Regent College
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring vignettes for faithfulness today
Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2021
This is a wonderful selection of faithful followers of Jesus Christ and servants of the church through the ages. Clear, concise, inspiring biographies. I especially appreciate the inclusion of women by themselves and of godly marriages in partnership for the gospel.
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Our God’s Firestarters books just arrived. In these Covid times, we are offering a special early discount until Nov 8th for those who want a personally signed copy: $20 including S&H to Canada & USA; $35, including S&H, for two copies. Just Etransfer at ed_hird@telus.net, giving your address. Cheques are also acceptable.
The boook can also be purchased on Amazon at Canada or USA

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Just Arrived

Our God’s Firestarters books just arrived.

To purchase any of our six books in paperback or ebook on Amazon, just click on this link.

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Alan Gilman & Adam Reid on God’s Firestarters

Two more God’s Firestarters Amazon book reviews https://tiny.cc/#

5.0 out of 5 stars Servants of God on Fire for the Lord!
Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2021
What a fantastic book! As the principal of a Christian school, these stories serve our teenagers well as fantastic testimony of people committing their life to Jesus. These concise stories are just right for the age we live in to encourage and inspire. As we read about these incredible history makers, we are reminded that all of us can be a difference maker and start a fire for the Lord within another’s heart. Hats off to Ed and Janice for not just putting together these stories, but challenging us to learn from them and be inspired. A great read for the whole family!
Adam Reid, Principal, Lions Gate Christian Academy, North Vancouver

4.0 out of 5 stars A challenging and encouraging read
Reviewed in Canada on October 27, 2021
My good friends Ed and Janice Hird have compiled an inspiring collection of twenty brief, but intense, stories of wonderful examples of sacrificial faith. They provide all sorts of little-known details of these, fairly well-known, historical characters. I personally appreciate how they don’t gloss over their frailties and personal challenges, reminding us that God delights in using normal human beings to do great things for him.
Alan Gilman , bible Teacher

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Canon Dr. Chris Sugden of Oxford on God’s Firestarters

Canon Dr Chris Sugden of Oxford on God’s Firestarters book, available on Amazon.com

“Individualistic Western Christianity seeks out and lauds its heroes.  God’s Firestarters shows them to be ordinary men and women of clay with faults and flaws, yet God blessed many lives through them and those who served with them in the movements of the Spirit who inspired them. The details the authors have painstakingly unearthed are not well known and their footnotes to other books are a valuable door into discovering important chapters in the history of the Christian church. A question worth exploring further is how far these anti-institutional firestarters realized the need to build institutions to continue and spread the ministries and insights they were granted- Wesley (Methodist societies) and Carey (Serampore University) clearly did.”

Canon Dr Chris Sugden, Ph D Programme Leader, Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life

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Three Latest Amazon book reviews on God’s Firestarters

The latest three Amazon book reviews of our new book God’s Firestarters

Peter Haigh

5.0 out of 5 stars Faith through history
Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2021
If you are a history buff; this is intriguing, if a person of faith; encouraging. A very enjoyable quick, read.Jean B.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Book!!!
Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2021
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I found this book to be an honest reflection on the actions of famous past Christians who did great things for the Kingdom of God. It shows very clearly how each past saint had major flaws and how God used them anyway to great and wonderful things. As a result, it is also extremely encouraging for Christians who want to do great things as it is quite clear God can use them despite their flaws.Rev. Ken Harding

5.0 out of 5 stars The Rev’d Dr. Ed Hird — a priest of whom Chaucer would approve (see Canterbury Tales- The Parson)
Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2021
Ed and Janice walked the talk long before Ed started to write about it. Their series of books offer tested insights into living with discipline in the light of Scripture amidst a world that often prefers the camouflage of shifting shadows.

This book offers brief, well researched and documented stories of 20 Christians who withstood the political and social pressures of their times to not only walk in the light and life of Scripture and their faith, but to bring hope and encouragement, sometimes even transformation to the lives of others; and unlike many books offering encouragement to readers, Ed and Janice have put their insights into a truly timeless format.

“God’s Firestarters” can easily be read individually for information, insight, and encouragement, or it can readily and profitably be used in a book club or study group for inspiration and education. The questions at the end of the book are hardly complete or exhaustive, but leaders of a book club or study group can easily springboard off them to stimulating and valuable discussion.

HOWEVER, the most beneficial use of the book, and the one that would bring the most fulfillment to readers, would be for them to find a way to bring some practical application of what they’ve read to the life of their own wider community in a manner that spreads the hope of the Gospel, or lovingly and compassionately brings the light of Scripture into the confusing shadows their world.

I warmly commend this book to all.

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Three Amazon book reviews

Amazon book reviews of our new book God’s Firestarters

5.0 out of 5 stars

The incredible history of God using people in His Church!!

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2021

10 years ago I was diagnosed with a terminal blood cancer diagnosis and it was people like Ed and Janice Hird that anointed me with oil and prayed healing in Jesus name over me. To the Glory of God I am now a marathon runner. Reading these stories of incredible miracles it gives me courage that God did heal, can heal and still will today! Well done Dr. Hird on this book! It is a page turner… —Denise

5.0 out of 5 stars

Remarkable People

Reviewed in Canada on October 21, 2021

All of these people are shown to be ordinary people who God used in remarkable ways.

Very easy to read. And very interesting. Makes the reader ask…”How is the Lord using me in His ongoing mission to the World He loves so much! —Don

5.0 out of 5 stars

Delightful and Succinct Portraits

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2021

These delightful and succinct portraits of inspired Christian leadership give a window into their private lives and into how they were shaped by the challenges of their times.

Bishop Ron Ferris, Assisting Bishop, Anglican Network in Canada

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Robert Dollar

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Angela Greenig on God’s Firestarters

Here is a new endorsement of our book God’s Firestarters from author Angela Greenig:
“Dr. Ed and Janice Hird have heard the heartbeat of many parents and other people struggling. In this book, you’re given tools with a lifeline that will give hope. This book will bring the Fires and Winds of the Lord into your families’ revival! You will learn to never give up. This is a must-read for everyone. Thank you, Dr. Ed and Janice, for listening to the Father’s heart and being a voice.
This book God’s Firestarters is a game-changer. The family has never been under such attack.
Right now, parents need to be able to rise up in the next hour but they need to be equipped. That’s what this book is all about: ‘releasing Revival into yourself, your family, and the world.’ Thank you for listening to the Father’s heartbeat in the cry to be restored and set free.
I Pray that God’s Firestarters book becomes explosive.”
Angela Greenig
Angela Greenig Ministries

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Robert’s Liardon Foreword

Foreword by Roberts Liardon, author of God’s Generals, for our new book God’s Firestarters, now available in Amazon in both eBook and print
“Each of us are alive at a specific time for a specific purpose — not born by accident or by mere physical choice. We are born when God decides that this is our time to live and do a specific work on the earth.
The range and variety of all our individual assignments is greater than our natural minds can comprehend. But this one common factor we can be assured of: God is always seeking for a man or woman to do His will and help change the heart of man.
That’s what makes Ed and Janice Hird’s book God’s Firestarters so compelling. Within these pages, you’ll find 20 unique journeys, spanning six centuries, of individuals who powerfully fit that description.
These men and women, along with their families, forged through a wide range of challenges and hardships together without giving up. Each in his or her own way helped bring the fire of God’s truth to hungry hearts and to places barren of a move of His Spirit. Each had a part to play according to his or her own giftings and assignment. And as a result of their strength of conviction to follow Jesus Christ and obey what He had asked them to do, each in some way advanced God’s Kingdom for generations to come.
Some of the men and women included in this book you will likely recognize; others may be unfamiliar to you. But in each chapter, the Hirds have succeeded in drawing out little-known details that bring color and depth to the journeys of these “firestarters.” You’ll see that, despite their many differences, they were all simply men and women who chose to do whatever God asked them to do, despite their own missteps at times and regardless the cost.

As you read, keep this question before the Lord in your heart: Why did You put me on the earth for such a time as this? You may already know part of that answer. Or perhaps you are only beginning to realize how critical it is that you seek the Lord for the answer. That’s the key — to ask Him for the answer. When we begin with God, every work we attempt is completed with the accuracy of Heaven. It’s a spiritual law you’ll see played out again and again in the pages of
this book.
We all have our place in the Body of Christ. Some are called to lead; others must hear from God that they are anointed to follow. Regardless, it requires more than desire to fulfill the will of God — it takes spiritual strength. And in the lives of the people represented in these twenty powerful stories, you’ll find evidence of that strength in a variety of forms.
Don’t read these stories lightly. Determine to allow the lessons learned by these godly men and women to become a “course” in your own school of the Spirit to help you stay on track. You have your own part to play; you have your own story to “write” for the annals of Heaven. So, through it all, just determine to keep on building your spiritual strength and walking out your own purpose in God. You’re going to make it — despite any past missteps and regardless the
cost!
Roberts Liardon, author of God’s Generals book and video series

To purchase any of our six books in paperback or ebook on Amazon, just click on this link.
To receive a personally signed copy of any of our books within North America, just etransfer at ed_hird@telus.net, giving your address. Cheques are also acceptable.