1956 HT: Dan Graves The five men on “Palm Beach,” a strip of sand on the Curaray River, Ecuador, knew that there was danger. But they took the risk for a chance to make friendly contact with the Huaorani (Auca) Indians. Missionaries Ed McCulley, Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian, had landed…
This coming Lord’s Day I am excited to be beginning a new sermon series on a book I’ve not preached through before: 1 Timothy. I’m calling the series How to Behave in Church, based on what I see as being the key verses of this letter: “I hope to come to you soon, but I…
1921 HT: Dan Graves On this day, January 6, 1921, Alexander Whyte died quietly in his sleep. The eighty-five-year-old Scotsman had risen from poverty and illegitimacy to become one of the most prominent pastors in Scotland. His faith began when he was young. Sunday mornings, his hardworking mother, Janet Thomson, took him to the Free…