451 HT: Christianity.com When Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” he received a multitude of answers. Some said he was John the Baptist, some said he was Elijah or Jeremiah or another one of the prophets. The disciple Peter came up with the correct answer when he said, “You are…
1857 Charles Spurgeon preaches to his largest congregation ever, more than twenty-three thousand, at the Crystal Palace. 1873 HT: Dan Graves LOTTIE MOON sailed for China in 1873, on the steamer Costa Rica, to undertake mission work. She suffered seasickness most of the trip. The ship berthed in Japan twenty-five days later. On the next leg of…
Today we take a second look at Isaiah 6.
1536 Tyndale is strangled and burned at Vilvoorde Castle (not far from Brussels) for his Protestant views and efforts to translate the Bible into English. 1955 HT: Dan Graves Twelve-year-old Jesse Overholtzer was uneasy. He sensed that things were not right in himself. He knew he had done things that were wrong, and he…
My constant companion as I get into Jeremiah is Chris Wright’s excellent commentary The Message of Jeremiah: Grace in the end, part of the equally excellent The Bible Speaks Today series, published by IVP. In this jotting let me simply post two quotes from Wright’s comments on the opening verses of chapter 1 “Jeremiah’s mission,…
