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…
1646 HT: Christian History Institute In seventeenth-century England, Parliament attempted to suppress Baptists for a number of reasons, among them a desire for greater religious unity. A law in 1645 forbade anyone from preaching unless they had been ordained in the Church of England or in some other reformed church. That law failed to have…
In his last inspirational and informative article on influential Scots in Church History and Missions for 2024, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh, writes, “It’s about an extraordinary Scottish missionary who pioneered at least 60 churches in Taiwan, a college which became a university and a theological training college, and a hospital, among other things. Wow!” Although…