258 HT: Dan Graves Cyprian was born into a wealthy home around 200. He studied rhetoric, showed a strong gift for debate, and opened a school to train students in public speaking. To demonstrate the best techniques, he sparred in front of his class with philosophers and Christians. When he was about forty-five, the arguments…
1541 John Calvin receives an uproarious welcome on his return to Geneva, whose authorities had banished him three years earlier. 1816 Robert Moffat is ordained and set apart with eight other missionaries to work in South Africa. He becomes a notable translator and the father-in-law of David Livingstone. 1845 HT: Christianity.com William Walford was blind,…
1729 HT: Christianity.com “I went to see a man that had one foot in the grave; but I found a man that had one foot in heaven!” So wrote one of John Fletcher‘s visitors after visiting the godly preacher who had become gravely ill by his strenuous efforts for the kingdom of Christ. Born in…
Dick Lucas celebrates his 100th birthday today! He was hugely influential and formative in my early days of ministry when, pastoring in London in the early 80s, I attended all his series of Expositions for Expositors and the annual Evangelical Ministry Assembly gatherings. His impact on expository preaching in the UK and beyond is incalculable.…