As many of our regular readers will know, John has been invited to lead a Church Workers’ Conference for Africa Inland Church – South Sudan (AIC-SS), to be held in Adjumani, northern Uganda, in September. As part of the fundraising for this event, he was committed to, and preparing for, a marathon walk in the…
I was asked by Evangelical Times to review this book and here is my response. By any definition, this is a remarkable account of a truly remarkable life; a life lived to the full and for the glory of God. The story of Macgregor’s life starts off in as dramatic a way as it continues…
1538 John Calvin and William Farel are fired by the town council of Geneva and ordered to leave the city within three days. They had refused to administer the Lord’s Supper the day before in part because of notorious sins among the city’s folk, and in part because they did not want to follow the…
1855 HT: DIANE SEVERANCE AND DAN GRAVES Dwight L. Moody didn’t attend school beyond the fifth grade; he couldn’t spell, and his grammar was awful. His manners were often brash and crude, and he never became an ordained minister. Once, before his conversion, he so outraged an Italian shoe salesmen with a prank, that the…
1768 HT: Dan Graves If you imagine a boy so enthusiastic for learning that he devoured any writing he could lay his hands on, you have a picture of young Joshua Marshman. Joshua was born on this day, April 20, 1768, at Westbury Leigh in Wiltshire, England. Until the age of twenty-six he worked as…
