The Bible teaching ministry of John Brand
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It’s the last Saturday of the month so, as usual, I’m spending the day with a small group of men who I mentor individually but bring together once a month. We’ll spend the morning looking at different aspects of pastoral theology and the afternoon encouraging one another to be better preachers. Please pray for us!
1700 HT: Dan Graves The man with the sponge lifted it and dabbed at the wall, wiping off the “No. 45” chalked there. Wherever he saw this popular slogan, he repeated his action. It was Alexander Cruden‘s odd way of showing his loyalty to King George III and cleaning up morals. George had given the…
I recently came across this great video which brings together two of my great spiritual heroes.
339 HT: Dan Graves Suppose you are a survivor of an outlawed organization whose origins go back to around 1700, seventy-six years before America became an independent nation. “Tell the story of your people,” you are urged. The problem is, your people were an illegal group. In fact, the government tried to exterminate them! Their…
My new seminar
Of his latest article about Scottish church history, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “This week’s article is all about the famous World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910. May Scotland regain its passionate desire to reach both our nation and the world again with the gospel.” 1910 World Missionary Conference, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons…
1593 HT: Dan Graves John Penry wept for Wales. In Elizabeth’s England, there were far too few pastors assigned to teach the Welsh, and of those, many were absentees from their flocks or little better than rogues. Penry wrote Equity of a Humble Supplication in Behalf of the Country of Wales that Some Order May Be…