1737 HT: Dan Graves FROM THE TIME Georg Schmidt was sixteen, he had one unswerving ambition: to win souls for Christ. But he also had a penchant for getting into trouble with authorities. Born in Moravia in 1709, he walked to Herrnhut, Saxony, Germany, in the winter of 1726, to join Moravians who had migrated…
1741 HT: Dan Graves All you that never passed under a great change of heart by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin…you are thus in the hands of an angry God; ’tis nothing…
My latest interviewee in this series is Rev Gareth Burke of Stranmillis Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Belfast. You can see others in this series here.
1415 Jan Hus, Czech reformer, is burned at the stake in Constance, Germany for “heresy.” He had been outspoken in his appeals for church reform and for political and religious rights for the common people. 1527 As friends arrive for dinner, Martin Luther feels an intense buzzing in his left ear and goes to lie…