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Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold
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Christian Heroes: Then and Now - Age 10+

The inspiring biography of the Scottish runner who won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics and went on to commit his life to missionary work in China.

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04/19/2025 03:03 am GMT
Eric Liddell Unit Study: Curriculum Guide
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Curriculum Guide - Christian Heroes: Then & Now Unit Study - Age 10+


Eric Liddell Unit Study: Curriculum Guide
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04/19/2025 03:03 am GMT
“It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.”
– Eric Liddell
The Boys in the Boat

Young Reader's Adaptation: Age 10+

For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit really meant. They shocked the world by defeating the German rowing team under Adolf Hitler.

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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT
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Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Competing in the midst of Hitler's Nazi Germany.


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04/19/2025 10:50 am GMT
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
– 1 Corinthians 9:25