1560 HT: Dan Graves When Luther’s Reformation began in Germany, it was inevitable that his ideas would seep through border cracks into neighboring Scandinavia. The most vigilant efforts of Denmark’s government and its established church could not stop German ideas, books, and preachers from slipping into the country. A shoemaker’s son was the chief…
1625 HT: Dan Graves No doubt it was with some nervousness that John Livingstone preached his first sermon on this day, 2 January 1625 in his father’s pulpit at Kilsyth, Scotland. But his most famous sermon would come five years later. Born a minister’s son in 1603, John Livingstone decided at a young age to follow Christ.…
Here is a lovely and powerful prayer by Joel Beeke to make your own: Lord, as we arrive at the cusp of another year’s end,We feel reluctant to cross the finish line.For we ought to have run a better race.Both Thy record book of memory and ours of conscience,Find us painfully lacking in Scripture’s balances.…
1519 The Swiss Reformation begins when Huldrych Zwingli assumes his duties as priest of Zurich and begins preaching through the Bible. 1826 HT: Dan Graves David Nasmith‘s heart was broken. 19th-century Scotland was rich in Industry. But when the 27-year-old man looked around his native Glasgow, it was not industrial wealth he saw, but spiritual…
1782 HT: Christian History Institute David Zeisberger was a Moravian missionary to America who won many converts among Native Americans and who founded several towns, including Goshen, Ohio. He also kept a diary that has proven invaluable to later historians. The year 1782 was marred by war and by the cold-blooded massacre of over eighty…
