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Watch Our Christian Heritage discuss William Wilberforce: Wikipedia: The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honouring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure consists of a Doric column topped by a statue of Wilberforce. Construction on the monument began in 1834 and was completed the following year. In 2011, it was designated a Grade II listed structure. _____ The Wilberforce Monument stands as one of Read more...

Watch Our Christian Heritage interview with Dr. David Saxon on John Knox: John Knox 1514-1572 Erected by Scotsmen who are mindful of the benefits conferred by John Knox on their native land 1896 _____ Image Source/Credit: • Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

Buried in C-219 / Adelwood Cemetery Dr. Rossvally (1828-1892) is most known for the tract, “Charlie Coulson, The Drummer Boy”: Two or three times in my life God in His mercy touched my heart, and twice before my conversion I was under deep conviction. During the American war I was surgeon in the United States army, and after the battle Read more...

The Life, Legacy, and Impact of Henry Moorhouse Henry Moorhouse (1840–1880) was an English evangelist whose brief life left a lasting imprint on nineteenth-century evangelical Christianity. Often remembered as a man of passionate preaching and deep spiritual conviction, Moorhouse became closely associated with revivalist ministry in both Britain and the United States. Though he never held a formal pastoral office Read more...

Erwin Lutzer explains the John Wesley Statue Welcome to Bristol, England. Behind me is a statue of John Wesley, one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Wesley lived in the 1700s, and of course he was a man who spent a great deal of time on horseback. because he preached the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout England. He went Read more...

Erwin Lutzer explains the significance of Hanham Mount: Every once in a while you have the opportunity of standing somewhere that you’ve read about all of your life and you begin to understand the significance of the place and somehow it even becomes a very reverent place because you know that something very significant happened right here. I’m actually standing Read more...

Erwin Lutzer at St. Paul’s Cathedral: Welcome to St. Paul’s Cathedral here in London, England. I’m standing at a very important place, a place that reminds us so clearly of the tremendous price that was paid for the Bible that we oftentimes take for granted. So what happened here, and why is this so important? You know, the Bible, as Read more...

Erwin Lutzer at Balliol College: Behind me is one of the oldest colleges here in Oxford, England. It is called Balliol College. And our interest goes back to the time of Wycliffe, who was in charge of this college for one full year. And then, of course, he had to move on. Now, Wycliffe was a man who insisted that Read more...

Erwin Lutzer on St. George Chapel & the Death of Henry VIII Behind me is St. George’s Chapel. It’s the place where Henry VIII is buried. When we follow his life, his six wives, two beheadings, we are brought to this place as a reminder of the fact that life comes to an end even to the most powerful and Read more...

Erwin Lutzer: Behind me is a memorial to people who were executed here under the reign of Henry VIII. Perhaps the one that we are most interested in is his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became a Protestant Christian. She read the New Testament in English. and she prayed many prayers. I’ve chosen one from her prayer book, and I Read more...

Hi, I’m Erwin Lutzer. Welcome to Highgate Cemetery here in London, England. I’m standing beside the grave of Karl Marx, a man who still rules much of the world from his grave. I want you to notice what is on his tombstone. This is a quotation from the Communist Manifesto, which he co-wrote with Engels. Workers of all lands unite. Read more...

Hymn History: Have I Done My Best for Jesus? Author: E. Edwin Young   “I wonder, have I done my best for Jesus, Who died upon the cruel tree?” (E. Edwin Young)   The Origin of the Hymn “Have I Done My Best for Jesus?” The hymn “Have I Done My Best for Jesus?” is attributed to E. Edwin Young, Read more...

William Ashley Sunday is buried in the same cemetery as Paul Harvey (other side of the Des Plaines River). Enter the cemetery near the bus stop, take the second left and proceed to the Haymarket Martyr’s Monument. Following trial, four anarchists were executed by hanging in 1887. Because German Waldheim was not a religious cemetery, it was chosen for the Read more...

Internationally known for their live productions of ‘Unshackled’ – the longest running radio drama in American history, Pacific Garden Mission is also the oldest continuing operating rescue mission, approaching 150 years of continuous service. Started in 1877 by Colonel George Clarke and his wife, Sarah Dunn Clarke on Clark Street, the mission has been in a few different locations since Read more...

Wikipedia: George Bennard was a native of Youngstown, Ohio, but was reared in Iowa. After his conversion in a Salvation Army meeting, he and his wife became brigade leaders before leaving the organization for the Methodist Church.[1] As a Methodist evangelist, Bennard wrote the first verse of “The Old Rugged Cross” in Albion, Michigan, in the fall of 1912[a] as Read more...

Ken Ham was born in Australia, the son of a Christian educator. At the age of 10, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris published The Genesis Flood, that ignited the modern Young Earth Creation movement. After college, Ken Ham taught high school science, until he began a Creation ministry in Australia, and then later moved to the United States to work Read more...

Billy Sunday home from 1862-1872. Road renamed Billy Sunday Lane Burial of Albert Sunday, older brother of Billy, and Mary Jane Corey, Billy’s mother   Image Credit: Sep 20, 1916, Page 11 – Boston Post at Newspapers.com. www.newspapers.com/image/74642292/?match=1&terms=%22boyhood%20days%20again%3A%20billy%20sunday%22.   1851 – Squire Martin Cory (maternal grandfather of Billy Sunday) settlement started with a Land Patent on 160 acres 1862 – Read more...

Halfway between O’Hare Airport and Rockford Illinois is a historical marker about a famous evangelist. Billy Sunday had given up professional baseball for the Chicago White Stockings in 1890 and began holding evangelistic meetings across the nation. During the summers he would take a break from the road – he wanted a place that felt like his hometown of Ames, Read more...

Born in Virginia, and raised in Kentucky, Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was a carnal frontier adolescent. At 16, he attended a revival meeting was “soundly converted.” To this meeting I repaired, a guilty, wretched sinner. On the Saturday evening of said meeting, I went, with weeping multitudes, and bowed before the stand, and earnestly prayed for mercy. In the midst of Read more...

The story of Peter Cartwright United Methodist Church is deeply rooted in the early days of American frontier life and the spread of Methodism across the Midwest. More than just a local congregation, the church stands as a lasting testament to the work and influence of Peter Cartwright, one of the most energetic and influential preachers of the nineteenth century. Read more...