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…
I have been done some preparatory work for a lecture on What is the Gospel? and have been struck by the variety of ways in which that word is used in the New Testament. The noun – euangelion – comes 96 times throughout the New Testament; three quarters of those occurrences being in Paul’s letters.…
I haven’t yet had a chance to listen to this podcast from Ligonier but, since it’s by Sinclair Ferguson, I know that I can unequivocally recommend it to you. Today’s is the first in a series heading up to Christmas. Sometimes it can seem that the true message of Christmas gets eclipsed by all our…
Behind the high altar of St Peter’s Cathedral in Cologne is what is reputed to be the largest reliquary, or container of religious relics, in the western world, and inside are the supposed remains of the Magi whose story is told in Matthew 2. The story goes that when the remains of the men were…
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I’m preparing to speak at a meeting later this month, and my given topic is, and I quote, “Blowing all out for Jesus”. I take that to refer to a passionate, all consuming zeal for Christ, and am taking as my role model for the subject, Jesus himself, of whom it was said, “Zeal for…
I have long been aware of both Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and Faith Cook, her biographer, but never read anything substantial about the former or anything by the latter. Now I have remedied that and am enormously thankful I have. It is a long time since I have been so drawn into the life of…