1836 HT: Dan Graves JOHN RIPPON was an extraordinary faith-filled young man. In 1771, when he was just twenty, Carter Lane Baptist Church, Tooley Street, London, invited him to try out for their pulpit. Rippon had been a Christian just four years. He trembled at the offer because famed theologian John Gill had been the…
I’m cutting it fine, I admit, but I wanted to take this chance to draw your attention to my The Bible As It Happened, chronological reading plan. It’s that time of year when folk are, perhaps, considering which plan they are going to use to read through the Bible next year; something that every serious…
1737 HT: Dan Graves When Count von Zinzendorf, leader of the Moravians, became a bishop, his first official act was to ordain Peter Bohler. Neither man could have foreseen the day’s far-reaching consequences of the ceremony, which took place on this day, December 15, 1737. Peter, who had been born in Frankfort, Germany, was a graduate…
This comes at the end of the eleventh lecture in which Calvin expounds and applies Jeremiah 3:4-11 in which God rebukes “treacherous Judah” for failing to learn the lessons of his disciplining “faithless Israel” in the north. “Grant, Almighty God, that since thou hast deigned to adopt us as thy people, and to unite us…
1872 HT: Dan Graves SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS BORN in Scotland, John Geddie became seriously ill and nearly died. His parents pleaded with the Lord to spare their only son, promising to devote him to the service of the Lord. The boy lived, but was such a small, timid child no one could have imagined…
