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Have you heard of Eric Liddell, an Olympian, champion for Great Britain and China, and most importantly, champion for Christ? Be entertained and inspired in your homeschool with The Torchlighters: The Eric Liddell Story from Vision Video. Here’s a review. (Find all the articles with HomeschoolApp.com.)

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Eric Liddell is perhaps most famous as the protagonist of the classic movie "Chariots of Fire," which depicts his amazing journey to Olympic gold in the 400m track race in 1924. Lesser known is the fact that after Liddell competed, he became a Christian missionary to China and died in 1945 after being tortured in an internment camp set up by the Japanese after they invaded China in 1937.

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A couple posts back, I posted a video of the Steve Pettit Evangelistic Team singing "God of Heaven". I wasn't sure if you could catch all the words (the video quality was poor) so I thought I would post them here for you to enjoy and meditate on. GOD OF HEAVEN Words and Music by Heather Sorenson God of Heaven, God of all the earth and sky. Great Creator, Master of all nature. Who gives birth to snow from heaven, Holds the waves at ocean's edge, Gives the orders to the morning, Shows each…

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Eric Liddell - 16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945. Eric was an Olympian athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary. Eric and his brother Robert were enrolled in Eltham College which at that time was a boarding school for the sons of missionaries. At Eltham, Liddell was an outstanding sportsman by the age of 15. Winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The film "Chariots of Fire" depicted his life.

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