1915 HT: Dan Graves MARY SLESSOR was one of the best-known missionaries of the nineteenth century. A hard childhood in Scotland prepared her for the strenuous life of the mission field. By age eleven she was working in a mill, preparing jute and flax for weavers. As she grew older she became a weaver, able…
1956 HT: Dan Graves The five men on “Palm Beach,” a strip of sand on the Curaray River, Ecuador, knew that there was danger. But they took the risk for a chance to make friendly contact with the Huaorani (Auca) Indians. Missionaries Ed McCulley, Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian, had landed…
This coming Lord’s Day I am excited to be beginning a new sermon series on a book I’ve not preached through before: 1 Timothy. I’m calling the series How to Behave in Church, based on what I see as being the key verses of this letter: “I hope to come to you soon, but I…
