1604 HT: Christianity.com Have you ever attended a frustrating meeting where nothing much seems to get done? The Hampton Court conference, held in 1604, was like that. When James VI of Scotland rode south to London on the way to the coronation that would make him James I of England, Puritans presented him with a…
1543 British Parliament prohibits the reading of the New Testament in English by “women or artificer’s prentices, journeymen, servingmen of the degree of yeoman, or under, husbandmen or labourers…” 1604 Puritan John Rainolds suggests to King James I “that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible, as consonant as can be to the…
1743 HT: Dan Graves David Brainerd, was a legendary pioneer missionary to the American Indians. He died in 1747 when he was only 29 years old, but his journal has inspired Christians in every generation since. One day in December, 1742, he made an entry that gave later generations a peek at the experience of…
My latest sermons on Esther are now available on the Esther sermons page. I preached two sermons yesterday on Esther 5:9 – 6:14, entitled Pride and Providence. The first was on The Overwhelming Pride of the Wicked and the second on The Overruling Providence of God.