The Bible teaching ministry of John Brand
The online Bible teaching ministry of John Brand
Blog
1833 HT: Dan Graves IN HIS FIRST PARISH, Rowland Hill offended some farmers by comparing them to their pigs. Just as their pigs never gave a single look at the oak tree that dropped acorns for them, he said, so they never gave a look to the One who provided their blessings. Plain talk like this earned…
1802 HT: Dan Graves Christmas Evans lived in terror of death from the time he was nine years old until he discovered he could have peace in Christ Jesus. Born into a poor Welsh family, he’d been sent to live with a uncle when his father died. The alcoholic uncle was cruel to the boy, worked…
1592 John Robinson, English Separatist, matriculates at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He will lead the group of Puritans from whom the first New England settlers derive. 1761 Death of English devotional writer William Law. His Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life had greatly influenced George Whitefield and John Wesley. 1933 HT: Dan Graves…
1860 HT: christianity.com During his college years at Leipzig, Germany, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther faced two crucial events. The first was a spiritual crisis in which, with the help of Martin Stephan, he came to an assurance that God had justified him by his grace. Shortly afterward, Walther nearly died from a lung disease. He…
