I recently had the immense pleasure and privilege of attending a reunion of former students of the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow, where I studied between 1978 and 1981. It was such a joy to meet up with folk I hadn’t seen for over 40 years and hear testimonies of God’s faithfulness and enabling in…
Last Sunday I began a new series of sermons in the book of Esther, a book I have never tackled before, and I still get as excited about a new preaching series as I did when I first started preaching 50 years ago. You can find the first two sermons in the series here.
1565 HT: Dan Graves The Huguenots were converted out of Catholic France when preachers brought Bibles and the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and justification by faith from Switzerland. Growth of this Reform church was rapid in Gallic lands. Within a hundred years it had won a million and a half converts. Some French leaders saw…
1853 HT: Dan Graves ON THIS DAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 1853, the Dumfries, a small sailing ship, left Liverpool. Aboard was one passenger—James Hudson Taylor, bound for China. His mother came to see him off, knowing it would be years before she would see him again—if ever. Never shall I forget the cry of anguish wrung from…
