Church History Timeline… 301-600 Turkey is an Islamic country today. It wasn’t always so. The region occupied by Turkey used to be called Asia Minor and the church flourished there. An extraordinary preacher named… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 “Some wish to live within the sound of Church or Chapel bell; I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell.” That saying was characteristic of C.… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1501-1600 Can you imagine the outcry if the Boston Globe were to announce that the Governor of Massachusetts had preached one Sunday from the Bible, using as his text, Christ’s “Sermon… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1901-2000 The convict nodded as he listened to the pretty girl who was leading him through the steps of salvation on this day, January 9, 1944. Picking up the beautiful new… Continue reading
Church History Timeline…. 1901-2000 On this day, January 6, 1921, Alexander Whyte died quietly in his sleep. The eighty-five-year-old Scotsman had risen from poverty and illegitimacy to become one of the most prominent pastors… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1901-2000 After George Washington Carver died on this day, January 5, 1943, he became only the third American up to that time to have a national monument erected in his honor.… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 At four o’clock in the morning on this day, January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France, a local midwife eased tiny Louis Braille into the world. Louis was the fourth child… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 When Christians part from one another, especially if it is expected to be a long separation, they may sing the hymn “God Be with You till We Meet Again.” Jeremiah… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 David Nasmith‘s heart was broken. 19th-century Scotland was rich in Industry. But when the 27-year-old man looked around his native Glasgow, it was not industrial wealth he saw, but… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1501-1600 If it had not been for Dr. Staupitz, I should have sunk in hell,” said Martin Luther. Johann von Staupitz was the vicar of the Augustinian order at the University… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 Never assume any heart is beyond God’s reach. On this day, December 27, 1843, Benajah Carroll was born in Carrollton, Mississippi, the seventh of twelve children of a Baptist minister.… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1701-1800 On this day, December 26, 1767, the day after Christmas, thirty-six prisoners, some of them sick and broken, stumbled out of the Tower of Constance. Among them was Marie Durand.… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 301-600 Today is Christmas day (Christ’s mass). But for the first 300 years of Christianity, it wasn’t so. When was Christmas first celebrated? In an old list of Roman bishops, compiled… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1501-1600 For centuries, Christmas was celebrated not as a single day, but as a whole season in parts of the world, beginning with this day, December 24, Christmas Eve. Perhaps the… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1501-1600 Ulrich Zwingli, reformer of Zurich, died in the battle of Cappel, carrying the banner for Zurich’s forces. A man of great originality–his reforms began a year before Luther’s–he seemed irreplaceable.… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1601-1700 When Hugh McKail dragged himself up the scaffold for his hanging, on this day, December 22, 1666 he did so joyfully. The twenty-six-year-old Scotsman was eager to enter eternal life… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1801-1900 In his book, The Romance of a Doctor’s Visits, Walter L. Wilson wrote, “How often people make the mistake of believing the facts without applying them to their own hearts!… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1501-1600 Edmund Grindal was once saved from instant death because he loved to read. As a youngster, he was so intent on improving himself that he took a book with him… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1901-2000 “When I was trying to decide what I would do with my life, I became convinced God wanted me to be a medical missionary. That decision took me to China.”… Continue reading
Church History Timeline… 1901-2000 Tears streaking her cheeks, Evie Brand pleaded with her mission board. Rules were rules, they answered. She was too old to go back to India. She must retire. Evie had… Continue reading
The Late Blog Author (1951-2014), Gregory A. Lane
