Of his latest article about Scottish church history, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “This week’s article is all about Eric Liddell, one of Scotland’s best-known Christians. He combined Olympic professionalism with a vibrant faith and spent many years as a missionary in China.” Whenever I take groups to St Andrews for a Christian Heritage…
1605 HT: Christian History Institute John Welsh, first University of Edinburgh graduate ordained to ministry, served as a Presbyterian minister at Selkirk, Kirkcudbright, and Ayr, Scotland. Revival broke out while he was at Ayr. He held the last position for five years. In those years his faithful witness and prayer saw the transformation of the…
1680 HT: Dan Graves A company of English dragoons surprised and surrounded a Scottish preacher and a small band of armed men on this day July 22, 1680. Deciding to fight to the death, their leader, Richard Cameron, prayed “Lord, spare the green and take the ripe.” The skirmish took place at Ayrsmoss and sprang out of…
1944 HT: Christian History Institute On this day, 21 July, 1944, Deitrich Bonhoeffer learned from a radio broadcast that a plot to kill Hitler had failed. Although he was already in prison, the Lutheran pastor knew he would be implicated because he had earlier worked with the plotters to bring about the assassination. In light of the…
180 HT: Dan Graves Vigellius Saturninus, the proconsul (Roman administrator) of North Africa in 180 A.D., spoke generously. “You can have the forgiveness of our Lord the Emperor if only you return to your senses,” he said. Speratus, one of twelve Christians who faced him, replied for the rest. “We have never done evil; we…
Of his latest article about Scottish church history, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “This week’s focus is on Professor F.F. Bruce, a Scottish New Testament scholar who very much became a household name for evangelicals as a defender of the Bible for generations. I remember reading his book, The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable?…
1739 HT: DIANA SEVERANCE David Brainerd lived only 29 years but the account of those years inspired many to follow Christ. Some, like William Carey and Henry Martyn, followed his footsteps onto the mission field. At the age of seven David began to seek the Lord. His journal shows that he struggled greatly in coming…
1924 HT: Dan Graves “I need your help, Eric.” Evangelist D. P. Thompson was urgent. “Not many men come out to the meetings. I think they would come if they knew you were going to speak.” Eric Liddell did not like to speak in public. He was shy. But he did not say anything to…
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…