303 HT: Dan Graves DIOCLETIAN became Roman emperor in 284. Under him, the empire experienced its cruelest and most systematic persecution of Christians. To share the load of governance, he made Maximian his co-emperor and Galerius and Constantius junior emperors. To bind Galerius to himself, Diocletian gave him his daughter Valeria as a wife, allegedly…
Philip Eveson, author, pastor and theological educator is my latest guest preacher on preaching.
155 HT: Dan Graves POLYCARP HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE in church history. He was an intermediary between the age of the apostles and the church of the second century, as well as being one of the earliest martyrs about whom we have an eyewitness account. His writings quote from most of the books of the…
1680 HT: Dan Graves When Thomas Goodwin was born in 1600, he was a premature baby. Consequently, his health was a rather shaky. But since his godly parents hoped to see him in the pulpit, rather than farming or soldiering, bodily weakness was not a serious impediment to his future. The couple provided their son…
The second in a four-part introduction to the Scottish Covenanters, brought to life through the stories of four martyrs: James Guthrie, Hugh M’Kail, John Brown of Priesthill, and James Renwick. (Produced by the Banner of Truth)
1945 HT: Dan Graves In China, Eric Liddell asked his students if they believed Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. When they said they did, he would say “let’s add it on to the end of the Apostles Creed and when you finish saying the Apostles Creed say, ‘I believe in the Sermon on the Mount’.” This…