Kuyper founded the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, the second largest Protestant church in the Netherlands; the Free University of Amsterdam, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and was Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1901-1905. The home-schooled son of a minister, he earned his doctorate at age 25. An advocate of public funding of religious schools, he also was professor of Theology, Read more...
“My lord, if you cannot persuade my conscience by scripture, I cannot find it in my heart to turn from God for the love of the world; for I count all worldly things but loss, in comparison with the love of Christ.” Thus young William Hunter sealed his fate. In less than a month his teenaged body was burned Read more...
From AsburySeminary.edu: The Livingston Lab houses a collection of authentic archaeological artifacts from Bible lands dating from over 5000 years ago through the St. Augustine period around A.D. 400. The lab contains pieces from the times of Abraham, Moses, Gideon, David and the prophets, more than 10,000 high-resolution images of Bible lands, a library of historic and contemporary maps and Read more...
UKWells: The Church of Scotland and the Free Church had given out an instruction that everyone should pray for revival. This was not difficult for the people were well practised. Prayer was the basis of the 1934 and 1939 revivals. Prayer was woven into the very fabric of the church in Barvas and many spontaneous prayer meetings would start as Read more...
In addition to the artifacts, it features many of the most significant Biblical replicas, including Siloam Inscription – the “completion marker” of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, chiseled into stone underneath Jerusalem where the two teams of diggers met during the Sennacherib siege Mesha Stele – discuses Omri, King of Israel and his relations with Mesha of Moab as recorded in 2 Kings Read more...
The Wheaton College Archaeology Laboratory focuses on Dothan, where Joseph found his brothers (Genesis 37), and where they planned to kill him, until Reuben saved his life, but Judah sold him into slavery to the Ishmeelites who took him to Egypt. Dothan is also where Elisha was based in 2 Kings 6, when the King of Syria tried to find Read more...
From website: The highlight of any visit to the Biblical History Center is a walk through the Archaeological Replica Garden where full-scale reconstructions of structures relevant to daily life in Biblical times bring history to life. Four areas of ancient life are represented in our Archaeological Replica Garden: Life of the Shepherd, Life of the Farmer, Life of the Village, Read more...
The focus of the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology is on the excavation of Biblical Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh) from 1926 to 1935 under the British Mandate. Mizpah, named for the place where Jacob and Laban made a covenant after Jacob left Laban’s employment with his wives Rachel and Leah (Laban’s daughters) according to Genesis 31:49. It was made into a Read more...
From the website: THE REDISCOVERY How it was lost The Baptism Site was a major Pilgrim Station from the days of John the Baptist. Even after he died, many of his students stayed in the area which was the birthplace of Christianity. Churches were built near the site, monks lived in caves, and pilgrims visited the site. This tradition continued Read more...
From website: Welcome to the Linda Byrd Smith Museum of Biblical Archaeology. With more than 100 artifacts displayed, the museum can be used as a resource for students to provide context and help them better understand their biblical studies. The museum has 10 sections that showcase items such as storage jars, perfume bottles, coins, weapons, wine skins and other artifacts Read more...
Watch Douglas Whitley in character as Hudson Taylor: Exact location unknown From China Christian Daily: On June 5, 2018, the Hudson Taylor Memorial Building was opened in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, where the great missionary is buried. In the past one year and some, Christians have visited the site on a nearly daily basis. They have come to the place of Read more...
Watch Douglas Whitley as E.M. Bounds: From Wikipedia: Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15, 1835 – August 24, 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds’ books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius (Claude) Read more...
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, the seventh of nine children. The death of his father at age four hurt the family financially, and Moody was sent out to work. At 17 he worked for his uncle in his shoe store in Boston (turn back a few pages to hear how Edward Kimball paid him a visit Read more...
Watch Doug Whitley in character as Andrew Murray: From Website: This church is a landmark in the centre of town and boasts a fine statue of the Reverend Andrew Murray, a Scot, and one of the pioneer theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. The Dutch Reformed Mother Church’s congregation moved away from the Paarl congregation in 1838. Read more...
From Wikipedia: Murray pastored churches in Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town and Wellington, all in South Africa. He was a champion of the South African Revival of 1860. In 1889, he was one of the founders of the South African General Mission (SAGM), along with Martha Osborn and Spencer Walton. After Martha Osborn married George Howe, they formed the South East Africa General Mission (SEAGM) in Read more...
In downtown Boston, MA, you can see where Dwight L. Moody was saved. Two years later found him in Chicago. When he wasn’t selling shoes, he ran a Sunday School class in an old saloon in a slum called The Sands, or Little Hell. In spite of his lack of education, he tried to teach the young children. He told Read more...
Horatio Spafford, well-off lawyer and friend of D.L. Moody lived here on the north side of Chicago. During the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, he lost much of his real estate holdings. A couple years later he sent his family ahead to Europe where D.L. Moody would be preaching. The Ville du Havre sank, and all four of his daughters Read more...
Photo by Chris Smith, FindAGrave.com PLOT Eternity – Section From GFA Missions: On completion of his assignment at the leprosarium, Dr. and Mrs. Dreisbach returned to the U.S., made preparation to proceed on to Africa, and in 1948 began full-time missionary working in Nigeria, West Africa. In their early years in Africa, Dr. Dreisbach was superintendent of three Read more...
From Vance Christie: Carl Becker (1894-1990) was born and raised in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After receiving his medical training at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he successfully practiced medicine in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for seven years. In 1929 Becker and his wife, Marie, left Boyertown to go to the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the Africa Inland Mission. Read more...
From Daytonian in Manhattan: Three blocks to the north, on Ninth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Street, the New York Asylum for the Blind had stood since 1831. In 1839 it had taken in a 19-year old student, Franny J. Crosby, who quickly was recognized for her talent in writing poetry and hymns. Fanny had been blinded by an incompetent physician at Read more...
