by Peter James | Jul 6, 2023 | Amy Carmichael
Seven-year-old Preena went to draw water from a well. She overheard Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) telling women at the well about her God who loved everyone the same. This God did not assign people to different classes as did the Indian caste system. Preena’s...
by Peter James | Jul 5, 2023 | Lemuel Hynes
It was a Saturday evening custom in the Rose household to read a sermon of well-known New England preachers for family devotions. Lemuel read a sermon on John 3.3 with great enthusiasm. After he finished, Father Rose wagered that the sermon came from Jonathan Edwards...
by Peter James | Jul 4, 2023 | John Witherspoon
A former pastor at the church I served, Luke, was married to Lettie, whose maiden name was Witherspoon. Yep, it’s the same Witherspoon who signed the Declaration of Independence. John Knox Witherspoon (1723-1795) preached the most impactful sermon of the...
by Peter James | Jul 3, 2023 | William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was elected to British Parliament in 1780 at the tender age of twenty-one. Four years later, when Parliament went into recess, Wilberforce toured Europe with his family and invited his former tutor, Isaac Milner, to join them. At the house where...
by Peter James | Jul 2, 2023 | Desmond Tutu
You may recognize the name Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and know something about his decade-long advocacy work to reform apartheid in South Africa, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize. What you may not know is his unwavering commitment to daily prayer. He began each...
