“Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake.” These are the inspired words that begin the 70 Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards, a man who…
1384 HT: Dan Severance John Wycliffe: Reformation Morningstar John Wycliffe, heralded as the “Morning star of the Reformation” was the leading philosopher of the 14th century and an English priest. There were many reformers throughout the history of the Christian church and all of the great ones that we will look at in the next…
1876 HT: Dan Graves “Right here let me notice that some say I’m preaching for effect. That’s what I am doing. I want to affect you; I want to rouse you out of your death-sleep, when I warn you to prepare to meet your God; for “in such hour as you think not the Son of man…
1737 HT: Christian History Institute John Gill was converted to the Christian faith at twelve years of age; at nineteen he made a public confession of faith. Those who knew him assumed he would be a preacher because his nose was always in a book. Gill did indeed become a pastor, accepting a call to…
1868 HT: Christian History Institute IN A SPEECH that he published, Phillips Brooks said, “…In all best biographies, two values of a marked and well depicted life appear. It is of value, first, because it is exceptional, and also because it is representative. Every life is at once like and unlike every other. Every good story of…
