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From the Lutterworth Museum: In 1374 this early church reformer was made Rector of Lutterworth as a royal reward for his diplomatic services. He appointed a curate to carry out his parochial duties while he preached sermons and wrote tracts, in Oxford and London, that threatened the doctrines of the Roman Church. The first translation of the Bible into English Read more...
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The King James Version of the Bible required the authorization of the King to print (hence the name Authorized Version). The King wanted the colonists dependent on England, and so did not give permission to the colonists to print the Bible, thus all Bibles were imported from England. During the Revolution, the British cut off the supply of Bibles. On Read more...
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Back in Savannah, from May 9, 1736 to November 27, 1737, John would preach in the Court House (this was prior to the ‘separation of church and state’). His parsonage was near where his statue is in downtown Savannah (GPS: 32.079200, -81.088900) The Methodist Church has recorded these monuments into a “Wesley Trail” of sorts, including the first Methodist church Read more...
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On March 9, 1736 his brother Charles records setting foot on St Simons Island: “About 3:30 in the afternoon I first set foot on St. Simons Island and immediately my spirits revived.” A memorial garden commemorates his trip. On March 14, 1736 Charles preached under the Wesley Oak: I preached with boldness, on singleness of intention, to about twenty people, Read more...
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DorseyMoba.org: The David A. Dorsey Museum of Biblical Archaeology was created in 1980 by the generosity of Alan and Muriel Pense and the dedicated work of Dr. David A. Dorsey, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament of Evangelical Seminary. The museum contains nearly 500 archaeological artifacts from the lands of the Bible. The Dorsey Museum is designed to give visitors Read more...
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Although Fanny Crosby spent the majority of her life in Manhattan (growing up at the New York Institution for the Blind, working with the Bowery Rescue Mission, etc.), she did spend the last 11 years of her life in Bridgeport. Using Darlene Neptune’s Fanny Crosby Still Lives as our guide, we took the train into Bridgeport, Connecticut to see if Read more...
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From Wikipedia: During his 40-year ministry, Peck contributed to the establishment of 900 Baptist churches, saw 600 pastors ordained and 32,000 were added to the Baptist faith. He died in Rock Springs, Illinois, where he was first buried. His body was reinterred at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.[8] From FindAGrave: John Mason Peck was originally buried beside his beloved wife Sarah in Read more...
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From Hertford: The window was made in 1911 by the glazier James Powell at the Whitefriars Glassworks in the City of London to commemorate the centenary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. When the Bible Society moved out of London in 1985 they gave the window to the college. Its restoration and installation in the Chapel by the glazier Read more...
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Just east of St. James Park in London, and just off the bank of the River Thames, in the Whitehall Gardens, is a larger than life statue of William Tyndale. This location is rather ironic, because Whitehall Gardens is the old Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall. In 1530 King Henry VIII moved from Westminster to Whitehall, and made Read more...
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From website: ANCIENT ARTIFACTS TSUMA features hundreds of ancient objects from the times of Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon, the Hebrew prophets, John the Baptizer and Jesus. Each artifact is linked to a Bible passage, lending a 3-dimensional, tangible reality to the text. Artifacts from the TSU excavation of biblical Sodom (Tall el-Hammam) are on display for the first time. Read more...