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Rice the Missionary

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This plaque is located at Luther Rice Memorial Baptist Church, an American Baptist congregation named in honor of Luther Rice. From HMDB: Luther Rice was one of the first foreign missionaries from the United States. Along with Adoniram Judson and three others, he was ordained a Congregationalist missionary in 1812. In India he and the Judsons accepted the Baptist view Read more...
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Erasmus Canal

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English Translation from HMDB: He was trained as a priest and developed into the most important (humanist) scholar of his time (Renaissance). He studied in Paris, stayed at the royal court in England and worked with printers in Venice and Basel. According to Erasmus, man must develop in three areas: cultural, religious and ethical. These aspects are discussed in his Read more...
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Erasmus House

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Wikipedia: The house, of late Gothic or early Renaissance style, was built between 1460 and 1515 under the tutelage of Peter Wijchmans [fr], canon and schoolmaster of the chapter of Anderlecht, and a friend of Erasmus. Erasmus stayed in the house for five months from May to October 1521, working on his translation of his Novum Testamentum from Greek into Latin.[2] Read more...
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Statute of Erasmus

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Desiderius Erasmus prepared the first printed Greek New Testament, the Novum Instrumentum Omne, in 1516. Wikipedia: An estimate of up to 300,000 copies were printed in Erasmus’ lifetime.[1] They were the basis for the majority of Textus Receptus translations of the New Testament in the 16th–19th centuries, including those of Martin Luther, William Tyndale and the King James Version.[2] Photo Read more...
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Ishtar Gate, Babylon

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Originally located here, with most of the gate relocated to the Berlin Museum, and parts to the former Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Built around 600 BC by Nebuchadnezzar, this is the gate Daniel and his three friends Hananiah, Michael, and Azariah would have entered and exited Babylon thru. Photo – Matson Photo Service Read more...
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Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the traditional site of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The primary alternative site, the Garden Tomb, is preferred by evangelicals for the atmosphere but possibly predates Jesus by 5-8 centuries (Matthew 25:28 says that the tomb was a new tomb built for Joseph of Arimathea). See discussion by FIRM, and Read more...
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Monastery of St Lot

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A traditional site for the cave of Lot from Genesis 19:30, and a nearby pillar attributed to his wife who was turned into salt. 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. Read more...
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Monastery of Saint Mark

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Traditional site of John Mark’s mother’s house, where Peter went after being released from prison: 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Read more...
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Gaspard de Coligny of Châtillon

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One of the first victims of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, was Gaspard de Coligny of Châtillon. His great grandson would be the King of England. Wounded in battle and later knighted, he became Colonel-General of the infantry. His brother Andelot, a recent Protestant convert, sent Coligny a devotional book that appeared to contribute to Coligny’s own conversion. Coligny’s efforts for Read more...
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Martyrdom of Jacques Pavanes

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Jacques Pavanes finds his name spelled different ways. In The Fourteen of Meaux, it notes his name as Iacobus Pauaneus, Jaques Pavanes, Pavannes, and Jacques Pauvant. However you spell his name, they said “This Jaques Pavanes began to teach the truth with such fervency of soul that he was the first to suffer death by fire in Paris.” Likely less than Read more...
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Spurgeon Library

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From Spurgeon.org: One of the goals of the Spurgeon Library is to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ by preserving the personal library of Charles Haddon Spurgeon and fostering a deeper appreciation of his life, legacy, theology, and preaching. When visiting the Spurgeon Library, visitors are able to see and study the gospel through the lenses of the “Prince of Read more...
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Jeroboam’s Temple / Jacob’s Ladder

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From DannyTheDigger: Today, there are almost no visible remains of biblical Bethel in Baytin. However, some exciting finds are at the summit of Mount Artas, 1 mile north of Baytin. Facing north is a big stone platform framed by a stone wall, forming a rectangular shape. By local tradition, Jeroboam’s temple stood here. Next to it, the Muslims erected a Read more...
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Joshua’s Altar on Mt. Ebal

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Has Joshua’s Altar at Mount Ebal been discovered? Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal found an altar – but was it Joshua’s? From Wikipedia: The excavating archaeologist, Adam Zertal, believed that the site was the compound containing the biblical altar built by Joshua.[4][10] According to the Book of Joshua chapter 8, the Israelites under the leadership of Joshua had built an altar on Mount Ebal, as had been Read more...
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Jefferson Memorial

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The Jefferson Memorial We’re at the Jefferson Memorial, a monument to Thomas Jefferson, a man who in his lifetime was full of personal contradictions, and he was also conflicted about those contradictions. And yet, the life of Thomas Jefferson, the writings of Thomas Jefferson, give us some amazing principles. In his Declaration of Independence, he writes that all men are Read more...
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Katharina von Bora

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  Good morning. This is Rebecca Lutzer from Wittenberg, Germany. A beautiful day here in this quaint, medieval-looking town that has so much history and has brought us here today to learn more about Martin and Katie Luther. So this morning, I’m going to share with you a little bit about their lives – how they met and how God Read more...
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Judensau

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  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are here in Wittenberg, Germany, and we are at what is known as the town church. It’s not the church where Luther posted the 95 Theses. That’s a little ways from here. This is the church where the Gospel was preached in German. And of course, it has huge implications. Martin Luther and his Read more...
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Wittenberg Town Church (Inside #2)

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  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. I want you to spend a few moments with me. I am here in Wittenberg, Germany, and I’m actually sitting in one of the churches of Wittenberg. Wittenberg has two churches. You’ve perhaps heard me say that before. This is not the church where the 95 Theses were posted, but it’s the church in which Read more...
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Wittenberg Town Church (Inside #1)

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  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are traveling throughout Germany looking at very important sites. Today we happen to be in the Town Church of Wittenberg. There are two huge churches here in Wittenberg. This is not the church where the 95 Theses were placed, but it’s where the Gospel was preached in German, and that’s why it’s Read more...
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Wittenberg Church of the Reformation

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  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are on a tour of Germany, and we are visiting some very important sites. But as far as my interests are concerned, I think that there is none greater than this church. This church is the Church of the Reformation. Just outside the wall, that’s where Luther nailed his 95 Theses, and Read more...
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Wittenberg Castle Church

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  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer in Wittenberg, Germany. With me is a tour group, and we are touring Germany and learning all about German history … at least some of the German history that is most important to us. Today, we are in the city of Wittenberg, famous, of course, because this is where Martin Luther lived, and he lived Read more...

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