by Peter James | Jan 16, 2023 | Jr., Martin Luther King
It was in a seminary preaching class that I came to a deeper appreciation of Martin Luther King. Jr. (1929-1968). Our class was studying great sermons from American history and listened to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech on August 28, 1963, as the...
by Peter James | Jan 15, 2023 | Matthew Henry
I tend to drift in prayer. I end up getting lost in thoughts about people and circumstances for which I pray. Tell me you have this problem! Matthew Henry (1662-1714) is well-suited to come to our rescue. This Presbyterian pastor loved doing things “decently and...
by Peter James | Jan 14, 2023 | Foliot Sandford Pierpont
It was a spectacular spring day in 1863. Foliot Sandford Pierpoint (1835-1917) sat on a hillside overlooking his native city of Bath, England. Flowers were in full bloom and the winding Avon River added to the bucolic scene. A poem began to take shape in the mind of...
by Peter James | Jan 13, 2023 | Paul Gerhardt
According to a nineteenth century biographer, Paul Gerhardt (1606-1676) was “trained in the school of affliction.” He studied for the ministry during a calamitous period of the Thirty Years War. He was called to serve a church in Berlin, only to be...
by Peter James | Jan 12, 2023 | Georgia Harkness
America was riding high in the saddle in the early twentieth century. We were flexing our economic and political muscles on the international stage. New inventions and technologies were taking hold. Our progress seemed inevitable. Georgia Harkness was born in 1891 in...
