1738 HT: Christian History Institute James Gardiner was a valiant Scots soldier. After a wild youth, he converted to Christianity in 1719 (he was thirty-one at the time) and showed many evidences of earnest faith. Philip Doddridge, a Puritan pastor, educator, and author, was so impressed he wrote a life of Gardiner. Seven years after…
Here’s the audio: As we look at church leadership structures and roles, it becomes more and more clear to me that so often tradition carries more weight than the clear teaching of Scripture. How right the 19th century Swiss Reformation Historian d’Aubigne was when he is reputed to have said something along the lines of,…
1668 HT: Dan Graves JOSEPH ALLEINE was like a splendid firework that rises into the sky, illumines observers with a momentary wash of colors, and then vanishes. He flashed upon his century for fourteen brief years of public Christian service. But unlike a firework, he left behind him a lasting legacy of souls won for…
I have been aware previously of some examples of Calvin’s prayers that are recorded in various places, but have been struck by them again as I work my way through his commentary on Jeremiah. Calvin ends each lecture – for that is how these teachings were first given – with a prayer that picks up…
