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Hymn Writer. Served in the First Methodist Church in Cape May, New Jersey for 60 years. He served in the American Civil War in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a riverboat pilot on the Delaware River. Cousin of hymn writer Eliza Edmund Hewitts. Author of Beulah Land and Simply Trusting. Simply trusting every day, Trusting through a stormy way; Even Read more...

Watch our interview on J. Gresham Machen From Wikipedia: John Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century. He was the Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1906 and 1929, and led a conservative revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative. As the Northern Presbyterian Church continued to reject conservative attempts Read more...

Amzi Clarence Dixon was born on a farm near Shelby, North Carolina, on July 6, 1854, to Thomas Jeremiah Frederick Dixon, a Baptist preacher, and Amanda Elvira McAfee Dixon. His brother, Thomas Dixon, Jr., became a prominent novelist. While still young, Dixon believed he was called to preach the gospel; and in 1875, he graduated from Wake Forest College in Read more...

From Wikipedia: Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr.[a] (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007)[3] was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist.[4] He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979. Featured Image Credit: https://www.liberty.edu/library/jerry-falwell-museum/ Authors photo of grave Read more...

Sacred to the memory of Edmund Botsford 11-1-1745 —- 12-25-1819 BAPTIST PREACHER – AUTHOR – CHURCH PLANTER First Pastor of the Baptist Church in this town A pious Christian and a faithful minister He exchanged worlds on the 25th of December 1819, in the 75th year of his age.   England gave him birth, Carolina a sepulchre. In the American Church, where Read more...

“Born in King and Queen County, Virginia February 4, 1747. William was the son of Thomas and Sarah Sanderson Hickman. Orphaned early in life, he was raised by his grandmother. About the year 1770 he heard the preaching of those oft persecuted Baptists – John Waller, James Chiles and David Tinsley. This led to his conversion February 21, 1773 of Read more...

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ~ JOHN GANO SARAH GANO WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST 10, A.D. 1804 APRIL 22, A.D. 1792 IN THE 78™ YEAR OF HIS AGE. IN THE 57″ YEAR OF HER AGE. OF HUGUENOT DESCENT, JOHN GANO WAS BORN JULY 22, 1727 IN HOPEWELL, NEW JERSEY, TO DANIEL AND SARAH BRITTON GANO. Read more...

From Wikipedia: John Charles Ryle (10 May 1816 – 10 June 1900) was an English evangelical Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of ritualism. He was a writer, pastor and an evangelical preacher. Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856–69), and Principles Read more...

From Wikipedia: Samuel Truett Cathy (March 14, 1921 – September 8, 2014) was an American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist. He founded the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A in 1946. Cathy was a member of the First Baptist Church in Jonesboro, Georgia, and taught Sunday School there for more than 50 years. He said that the Bible is his guide-book for life.[7] Due to Read more...

From Wikipedia: Norris was converted at a Baptist revival meeting in the early 1890s, and in 1897, he became pastor of Mount Antioch Baptist Church in Mount Calm in Hill County, Texas.[3] The following year he enrolled in Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco, which he attended from 1898 to 1903. He then earned a Master of Theology degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1905, Norris returned to Read more...

From Wikipedia: Lyman Stewart (July 22, 1840 – September 28, 1923) was a U.S. businessman and co-founder of Union Oil Company of California, which eventually became Unocal. Stewart was also a significant Christian philanthropist and cofounder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now known as Biola University). He and his brother Milton also anonymously funded publication of The Fundamentals, the foundation document of Christian fundamentalism.[1] Stewart also helped found the Union Rescue Read more...

From Wikipedia: John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. He brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity. He developed small industries for them, such as hat making. He advocated strongly against a form of slavery, which was called “Blackbirding“, that involved kidnapping the Read more...

From Wikipedia: William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally in the late 1940s. He was a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and according to a biographer, was “among the most influential Christian leaders” of the 20th century.[2] Graham held large indoor and outdoor rallies with sermons that were broadcast on radio and Read more...

From Wikipedia: Dennis James Kennedy (November 3, 1930 – September 5, 2007) was an American pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries (now known as D. James Kennedy Ministries), the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, Read more...

From Wikipedia: George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was labelled as the Open Brethren. He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime,[1][2] and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that Read more...

From Wikipedia: Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and filmed entirely in North Wales and England.[1] Image Credit: Nevin, Read more...

Henry Allan “Harry” Ironside (October 14, 1876 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, and author who pastored Moody Church in Chicago from 1929 to 1948. Image Credit: Wikipedia contributors. Harry a. Ironside. 4 Feb. 2025, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_A._Ironside#/media/File:Harry_Ironside.jpg. Read more...

The gravestone of Mary Livingstone, wife of David Livingstone, and daughter of missionary Robert Moffatt in Chupanga (Shupanga). The inscription reads: Here repose the mortal remains of Mary Moffat, the beloved wife of Doctor Livingstone, in humble hope of a joyful resurrection by our saviour Jesus Christ. She died in Shupanga House, 27 April 1862, aged 41 years. Image Credit: Read more...

The Boy Orator of the Plains, Three time Democrat nominee for President, and the Lawyer of the Scopes Trial.   Image Credit: James E. Purdy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

“Don’t you remember saying, ‘Moody, the world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him?’ ” –Christianity Today   Life of Henry Varley – https://www.brethrenarchive.org/people/henry-varley/snippets/life-story-of-henry-varley/ Formerly a nonconformist chapel – https://sites.rootsweb.com/~todmordenandwalsden/mountolivet.htm Remains may have been moved – https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229500364/henry-varley   Featured Image Credit: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...