I still can’t really get past the opening verses of Jeremiah 1 and the underlying, or even underpinning, sense of the sovereignty of God. This is also revealed in the ‘spoiler alert’ that comes with the last words of 1:3 –” …until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month”. In fact that parallels with…
1535 HT: Dan Graves The Bible translation that William Tyndale had begun when he was arrested in May, 1535 only included the New Testament, the Pentateuch and a few historical books of the Old Testament. England was still without a complete Bible in the English language. Who would finish the work? Using Tyndale’s work as…
I have just started doing some devotional reading of, and reflection on, Jeremiah, a Bible book of which I have to confess I am woefully ignorant. As I find it helpful for my own discipline and focus to make notes of what I read and learn, I thought I would share some of them here…
Gary Brady went to London in 1983, the year after I began my ministry there – and he’s still there, faithfully pastoring the same congregation.
1528 HT: Dan Graves EDUCATED AT OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, William Tyndale became a tutor for the children of Sir John Walsh at little Sudbury Manor. Walsh often entertained the local clergy at his table. Sitting with them, the scholarly Tyndale was appalled at the lack of knowledge the clergy had of the Scriptures. In one…
