by Peter James | Jan 16, 2025 | Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot (1927-1956) was driven by a single, overwhelming passion to share the gospel with the Auca tribe (now the Waorani people) living deep in the Ecuador jungle. The tribe was considered dangerous and violent. Some thought Jim was foolish to even attempt a...
by Peter James | Jan 15, 2025 | 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 don’t have this problem!Matthew Henry (1662-1714) is well-suited to come to our rescue. This Presbyterian pastor loved doing things...
by Peter James | Jan 14, 2025 | 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, 2025 | 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, 2025 | 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...
