1896 HT: Dan Graves MAMIYELI MITSEKI GWAMBE was twelve when he left his family village in Mozambique to find work and get an education in South Africa. Living in the slums of Cape Town, he was appalled at the drunkenness and vice he witnessed, and resolved never to imbibe alcohol. The Cowley fathers (members of…
As a follow-up to our newsletter of last month, we wanted to update you and ask for your prayers as we contemplate the busiest two or three weeks we have experienced in recent times. Sunday 16th JuneJohn is preaching at New Cumnock Evangelical Church in Ayrshire. This small fellowship has been without a Pastor for the past…
1789 HT: Dan Graves THE HONOR of evangelizing New England for the Methodists belongs to Jesse Lee. Charles Wesley preached in New England in 1736, before the Methodist movement could fairly be said to have gotten off the ground. During the next fifty years, a few other Methodists ventured into New England. None planted churches…
HT: Christian History Institute J. Gresham Machen was a Presbyterian theologian who felt his church was abandoning Bible truth. He became a controversialist and eventually a leading voice in a breakaway denomination. In a lecture delivered in London on this day June 17, 1932, he defended his engagement in controversies and arguments over faith. Quote “Men tell us…
On 16th June 1948, A W Tozer quoted these words of Milton in the preface to his classic work, The Pursuit of God. As is so often the case with Tozer, he wrote with great insight and the truths he expressed are as true today as ever they were. If I was going to argue…