Even after 50 years of preaching, I still get a real thrill, even an adrenaline rush, every time I embark on a new preaching series; engaging with a part of Scripture that I haven’t dealt with at length for some time, if ever. This coming Lord’s Day evening, having just completed my series in Esther,…
398 HT: Dan Graves John Chrysostom resisted, pleaded. The Imperial messengers were deaf to his pleas. They had their secret orders. He was coming with them whether he wished it or not. Outside Antioch they transferred him into a royal chariot and rode for Constantinople. There, in the capital of the Roman Empire he…
1536 HT: Dan Graves What was the surest way to make yourself unpopular in 1530? Join the Anabaptists. Protestant and Catholic alike reviled these usually peaceable, Bible-loving souls and massacred large numbers of them. One group of Anabaptists (the name, given by their enemies, means “re-baptizers”) came into being Jan 21, 1525 in Zurich when…
Of his latest article about Scottish missionaries, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “This week’s article is about a remarkably courageous Scottish woman called Minnie Watson. Most people have never heard about her, but her story deserves to be told.“ Sometimes in history significant people remain hidden in the shadows of a more popular personality. Such was the…
I know I will be accused of being old fashioned or unwise or even naive for writing these things, but write them I must! I have written similar sentiments before and being roundly condemned, as well as, it has to be said, commended in some quarters. I am deeply troubled by a generation of preachers…