General
- Does your denomination send out missionaries to various areas of the world? Do a Google search for your own mission’s site and bookmark it. Then, each week, you can return to that site and pray for specific missionaries!
- Blue Letter Bible: A wonderful study aid for teaching devotions or checking Hebrew and Greek words. Historical maps and artwork is also included!
- Operation World website: excellent for praying daily for missions
- The “Ism” Book: an online book for basic definitions that will help you in your worldview studies.
- YWAM: missionary puzzles and coloring pages
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Do you understand these terms and remember these key people? If not, take some time to click and review!
Take some time to look up names with which you are not familiar. See if you can spot their position with regard to the terms listed above:
There have been outstanding people and events worldwide that must also be remembered in any quick review of the history of the Church to the beginning of the 20th Century:
- John Bunyan
- Wilberforce
- William Carey
- Hudson Taylor
- David Livingstone
- Mary Slessor
- John Newton
- George Muller
- Charles H. Spurgeon
- Amy Carmichael
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Fanny Crosby: scroll down to find a list of songs she wrote. Listen to them online!
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- Billy Sunday – focus on background, methods, and message
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- No links for this week.
Week 7: Postwar America
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- The Screwtape Letters – discussion questions
- Eric Liddell
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
Week 15: World-Wide War
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- Richard Wurmbrand – see a video of him and read his biography
- Voice of Martyrs
- Israeli’s Independence Day
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony.
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
- A study guide to “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
- A study guide to “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Ida Scudder – Reluctant Missionary
- Jacob DeShazer’s personal testimony.
- Jacob DeShazer interview on YouTube.
- A study guide to “The Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee.
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Nate Saint – Site where you can receive a free book on his biography. Search “Nate Saint”
- Nate Saint
- Jim Elliot
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Supplement 13: Rhetoric Church History Options for Unit 4
- Option 3: Church Denominations Project
- Option 4: World Missions Project
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Mother Teresa – Official Site
- Brother Andrew’s sermons
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Mother Teresa – Official Site
- Brother Andrew’s sermons
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Mother Teresa – Official Site
- Brother Andrew’s sermons
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- No links for this week.
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- No links for this week.
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- From the book of Revelation: The River of Life and I Come Quickly activity pages
- Timeline of the Book of Revelation