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John and the Sudans My connection with and commitment to the churches in Sudan and South Sudan is known of by many, but perhaps less well-known, especially as time passes, is the story behind that ongoing relationship, not to mention the depth of it. With the planned return visit South Sudanese Christians in September, I…
Almost exactly 25 years after my first visit to Khartoum in Sudan, and 17 years since my last visit to Juba in South Sudan, I have accepted an invitation from the leaders of the Africa Inland Church in South Sudan (AIC-SS) to lead a Church Workers’ Conference from Monday 7 – Friday 11 September. Unfortunately,…
303 HT: Dan Graves DIOCLETIAN became Roman emperor in 284. Under him, the empire experienced its cruelest and most systematic persecution of Christians. To share the load of governance, he made Maximian his co-emperor and Galerius and Constantius junior emperors. To bind Galerius to himself, Diocletian gave him his daughter Valeria as a wife, allegedly…
Philip Eveson, author, pastor and theological educator is my latest guest preacher on preaching.
155 HT: Dan Graves POLYCARP HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE in church history. He was an intermediary between the age of the apostles and the church of the second century, as well as being one of the earliest martyrs about whom we have an eyewitness account. His writings quote from most of the books of the…
1680 HT: Dan Graves When Thomas Goodwin was born in 1600, he was a premature baby. Consequently, his health was a rather shaky. But since his godly parents hoped to see him in the pulpit, rather than farming or soldiering, bodily weakness was not a serious impediment to his future. The couple provided their son…