1860 HT: Dan Graves For years, Rodney Smith did not know when he had been born. He was the son of a Gypsy, had no records and would not have known how to read them if he had. “A good aunt of mine took the trouble to get someone to examine the register of Wanstead…
1536 HT: Dan Graves What was the surest way to make yourself unpopular in 1530? Join the Anabaptists. Protestant and Catholic alike reviled these usually peaceable, Bible-loving souls and massacred large numbers of them. One group of Anabaptists (the name, given by their enemies, means “re-baptizers”) came into being Jan 21, 1525 in Zurich when…
1605 HT: Dan Graves IN 1548, Theodore Beza became seriously ill. Not yet thirty years old, he stared death in the face. Looking upon his recent conduct, he was ashamed. First was the matter of his faith. At heart he was Protestant but, because he got his income from two benefices of the Catholic…
451 HT: Christianity.com When Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” he received a multitude of answers. Some said he was John the Baptist, some said he was Elijah or Jeremiah or another one of the prophets. The disciple Peter came up with the correct answer when he said, “You are…
1565 HT: Dan Graves AFTER HE LEFT the Catholic Church, Pierre Viret’s first great success was to convert his home village to the views of the Protestant Reformers. Orde, Switzerland was divided between Catholics and reformers. In 1531, in the midst of this crisis, Viret returned from school in Paris and swung the town to…
Last week was, without a doubt, a dark week for the UK with the Westminster government passing two significant pieces of legislation that reveal just how far as a nation we have departed from God. As more than one commentator has said, these developments demonstrate the fact God has given us up to the sinful…
1871 HT: Dan Graves GEORGE LESLIE MACKAY gave his heart to Christ when he was ten. In his college years he enthusiastically embraced the idea of becoming a missionary and asked the Presbyterian Church of Canada to send him to a foreign land. They had no missionary program at the time and considered him too…
Here’s my latest sermon in this series, continuing to focus on the biblical role of elders in the local church.
Of his latest article about Scottish church history, Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh writes, “For the next 10-12 weeks we will cover the period from the Rose St Revival in Edinburgh to the last Billy Graham Crusade in Scotland.“ Image: Charlotte Chapel on Rose St, Edinburgh, where the revival began. Today’s congregation is in a different building, in…