1934 HT Dan Graves After Hitler came to power, he confronted Christians in Germany with uncomfortable choices. At first, few pastors seemed to recognize where Hitler was taking the church. He sought to co-opt both Lutheran and Reformed churches to support his National Socialist Party. Many church people supported him. Sick of the decadence that had…
1560 HT: Dan Graves When Luther’s Reformation began in Germany, it was inevitable that his ideas would seep through border cracks into neighboring Scandinavia. The most vigilant efforts of Denmark’s government and its established church could not stop German ideas, books, and preachers from slipping into the country. A shoemaker’s son was the chief…
In 19th-century Glasgow, Scotland, a young man named David Nasmith dared to challenge the spiritual poverty that surrounded him, sparking a movement that would change the face of urban mission work forever. By uniting churches and Christians across the city, Nasmith’s innovative approach to evangelism and social service created a global network of city missions…
“Firmly believing that my times are in God’s hand, I here submit myself and all my affairs for the ensuing year, to the wise and gracious disposal of God’s divine providence. Whether God appoints for me health or sickness, peace or trouble, comforts or crosses, life or death — may His holy will be done!…
In his book A Scottish Christian Heritage (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2006), Iain Murray quotes two prayers of Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), and they seemed appropriate as we stand at the beginning of a new year, the one for personal steadfastness and the other for national renewal “O God, make me feel the firmness of the…