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…
1948 HT: Dan Graves IN JANUARY 1948, while attending Wheaton College in Illinois, twenty-year-old Jim Elliot began a journal which became among the most famous spiritual records of the twentieth century. Meditations on Bible readings prompted many of his entries. Word studies were the focus of other daily logs, while some mentioned books or alluded to battles with temptation. Now and then…