Dr. David Saxon, Professor of Church History at Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin, introduces us to Roger Williams, the founder of the first Baptist church in America. Williams grew up Anglican, was persecuted in his family, attended Cambridge University, and eventually came over to America and founded Providence Plantations, now the State of Rhode Read more…
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Bill Federer on D.L. Moody and Booker T. Washington
Bill Federer, author of America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, joins us to talk about D.L. Moody, including a visit by Abraham Lincoln to Moody’s Sunday School, Moody’s work in the Civil War with the U.S. Christian Commission, P.T. Barnum’s hippodrome, the World’s Fair, Booker T. Washington and the freemen schools, Susan B. Anthony, Read more…
Bill Federer on William Booth, George Williams, Henry Dunant, Edgar James Helms, and Jeremiah Lanphier
Bill Federer, author of America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, joins us to talk about social impact ministry throughout history, especially as a result of Charles Finney’s initial work. He tells us about several Christians who founded global organizations such as William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army), George Williams (founder of the Young Read more…
David Saxon on George Whitefield
Dr. David Saxon, professor of Church History at Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin talks with us about George Whitefield (1714-1770), the British Anglican who preached over 10,000 times to millions in England and America. A friend to Benjamin Franklin, founder of an orphanage in Georgia, and buried in Massachusetts. Watch online or listen Read more…
David Saxon on Charles Spurgeon
Dr. David Saxon, professor of Church History at Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin talks with us about the Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon. Born in 1834, and dying at 57 in 1892, Spurgeon was a powerful preacher, and yet was converted in a humble church service. Watch online or listen to the podcast Read more…
The Old Rugged Cross Church & Museum
Bob & Mary Shaffer of the Old Rugged Cross & Museum invite us into the restored 1913 church building where the beloved hymn was first sung. We’ll talk about how they took a collapsing barn and made it back into a church, some of the other sites that claim The Old Rugged Cross, George Bennard, Read more…
Robert Lowry, Pastor & Hymnwriter
He wrote Shall We Gather at the River, What Can Wash Away My Sin?, Low in the Grave He Lay, Jesus My Savior; as well as the chorus to I Need Thee, O I Need Thee
Phillip Bliss and the Ashtabula Train Disaster
In Ashtabula, Ohio, near the hospital, is a historical marker to what was the worst train disaster in American history to that point. Philip Bliss and his wife Lucy died in the greatest train wreck to-date on American History on December 29, 1876. But he left us a hymn, “I Will Sing of My Read more…
James Delaney, the Irishman saved in Burma who became a missionary to Wisconsin
On location in Whitewater, Wisconsin, we found the tomb of James Delaney, the Irishman saved in Burma who became a missionary to Wisconsin
Adoniram Judson
Tim Schmig is at the grave of Adoniram Judson, telling the remarkable story of how Adoniram grew up in a Christian home, lost his faith in college, and how he returned to the Lord!